Plants of the Punjab. 429 
Heres, UNBRANCHED, WITH OpposITE ExsTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Habenaria 
Aitchisoni, 
ORCHIDACES. 
Be Bley 152, 
Himalaya, 
7-9,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Habenaria latilabris 
or Edgeworthii, 
Habenaria densa, 
Habenaria 
goodyeroides, 
Habenaria 
Elizabethe, 
Habenaria galeancra, 
Habenaria decipiens, 
Curcuma 
angustifolia, 
East Indian 
Arrowroot, 
Tikhur. 
ScITAMINEA. 
PoBs wie 210) 
PETALS UNITED. 
STAMENS NONE. 
ANTHER ONE. 
small to medium gize, perennial, stem sometimes 
as thick as a goose-quill, sheaths few, small ; leaves 1-3 in., 
circular, tipped with a rigid point, not margined, inserted 
above the base of the stem ; flowers 4 in. diam., greenish, 
on a dense-flowered spike, bracts half as long as the ovary, 
1 in., short- or long-pointed, sepals nearly equal, oblong- 
ovate, blunt, lateral spreading, dorsal erect, petals as long, 
ovate-lanceolate, lip as long as the sepals, divided to the 
base, side lobes longest, spreading, recurved, spur shorter 
than the short curved ovary, clubbed, stigmatic arms large, 
clubbed. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
STAMEN ONE. 
medium size, perennial, rootstock round, stemless ; 
leaves stalk 6 in., blade 6-12 by 2-83 in., lanceolate ; flowers 
4 in., yellow, crowded, several in the axil of each bract, 
opening in succession, quickly fading, in stalked spikes 
8-6 in. long, crowded by several enlarged, empty, pink 
bracts, lower bracts green, ovate, calyx short, 3-toothed, 
corolla tube } in., upper lobe erect, concave, ovate, 2 
Valleys below Simla, lateral lobes shorter, oblong, within the corolla 8-petal- 
4,000 ft. 
(Collett), 
like segments or staminodes, 2 lateral erect, the lower 
broader, spreading and usually lobed, stamen inserted on 
the mouth of the corolla tube, anther linear-oblong, curved, 
