490 
Plants of the Punjab. 
Herss, UNBRANCHED, WITH ALTERNATE HExsTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Orchis latifolia, 
Marsh orchis, 
Salap, salab. 
ORCHIDACE. 
5, >-¥1.- B27. 
Himalaya, 
8-12,000 ft. 
Hattu, on wet 
ground (Collett). 
Kadrala, Kashmir. 
Herminium 
monorchis, 
Musk orchis, 
ORCHIDACE. 
feb, kewl. 
Himalaya, 
10-13,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Herminium 
angustifolium, 
ORCHIDACE. 
F. B, I. vi. 129. 
Himalaya, 
4-8 ,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett), 
PETALS UNITED. 
STAMENS NONE. 
ANTHER ONE. 
medium size to large, perennial, smooth, root tuberous, 
flattened, divided into 2 or 8 lobes; stem 12-36 in., stout, 
hollow, leafy or bearmg below sheathing seales ; leaves 
2-1 in., oblong lanceolate, blunt, base sheathing; flowers 
2 in. long, dull purple, crowded, lip spotted, on a cylindric 
crowded spike 1-6 in. long, bracts green, narrowly lance- 
olate, lower much longer than the flowers, upper slightly 
so or shorter, sepals and petals nearly equal, lateral sepals 
spreading, dorsal one with the petals forming a hood over 
the very short column, lip jomed to the column, turned 
down, round, almost 3-lobed, margins minutely toothed, 
spur straight, cylindric, nearly equal to the ovary, anther 
united to the column, cells separating, lobes 2, united to 
2 round sticky glands above the broad 2-lobed stigma. 
Salap in the bazaars is imported; the drug is much 
esteemed by Indians as a nervine tonic and aphrodisiac. 
small, perennial, root of an oblong tuber, undivided ; 
leaves 2, rarely 3, 1-4 in., linear-oblong, flower stalk naked, 
rarely 2-leaves or 1-sheathed ; flowers 4 in. diam., yellow- 
green, musky at night, curved down, nearly all on one side 
of the spike, 1-2 in., bracts equalling or shorter than the . 
ovary, sepals and petals almost forming a hood, sepals 
oblong, blunt, petals unequal-sided towards the base, tips 
fleshy, ovate, hardly longer than the sepals, spur none, 
lip hardly longer than the sepals, 8-lobed, lobes narrow, 
base concave, column very short, stigma 2-lobed, anther 
joined to the face of the column, cells 2, attached to 2 
round sticky glands ; in young flowers these are hidden in 
a minute shiny brown pouch. 
medium size-to large, stout or slender, root of 2 small 
ovoid tubers, stem 12-28 in., slender, leafy, leaves 4-8 in., 
few, linear, short-pointed, sheathing, flowers } in. long, 
green in crowded spike 2-10 in. long, bracts equal to the 
ovary, sepals oblong, blunt, petals Inear, thin, short 
pointed, lip linear, equal to or longer than the ; epals, narrow, 
trifid beyond the middle, side-lobes thread-like, mid-lobe 
very short, capsule } in., oblong, swollen ; for other cha- 
racters see the last species. 
