Plants of the Punjab. 491 
Herss, UNBRANCHED, WITH ALTERNATE ExsTIPULATE SimpLE LEAVES. 
Herminium 
pugioniforme, 
ORCHIDACER. 
FP: BE, vi, 480, 
Himalaya, 
12-14,000 ft, 
Kashmir, 
Herminium 
gramineum, 
ORCHIDACEA. 
BOB: 1. vi. 18s 
Himalaya, 
5-8,000 ft, 
Simla (Douie). 
Habenaria 
stenopetala, 
ORCHIDACEA. 
Pea. 1. vie 134. 
Road to Kashmir 
(Roy’e). 
Habenaria digitata, 
ORCHIDACE. 
Bo BA vis 154, 
Kashmir 
(Falconer), 
PETALS UNITED. 
STAMENS NONR. 
ANTHER ONE. 
small, 2-5 in. high, leaf solitary, long-spoon-shaped, 
blunt, shorter than the flower spike, flowers ;'z In. diam., 
on a few-flowered spike, bracts minute, orbicular, dorsal 
sepal orbicular, lateral very broad, blunt, petals smaller, 
oblong-ovate, lip dagger-shaped, not divided, hardly longer 
than the sepals, base dilated ; for other characters gee the 
last species. 
small, perennial, very slender, 1-leaved, 2-6 in. high, 
leaf linear, 1-4 in., short-pointed, flowers zn-g In. diam., 
greenish, facing one way, nearly erect, in a loose-flowered 
spike, 1-33 in. long, bracts awl-shaped, equal to the ovary, 
dorsal sepals oblong or broadly ovate, lateral ovate, blunt, 
spreading, petals erect, linear, almost sword-shaped, equal 
in length to the sepals, blunt, lip ovate, long-pointed, 
flat witha hollow base, slightly pouched beneath, equal 
to or shorter than the sepals, undivided, rostellum very 
large, equal to the anther, recurved, fleshy; for othe: 
characters see the last species. 
medium size, perennial, root tuberous, fibres fleshy 
stem leafy; leaves 6-8 in., oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 
stem-clasping, base narrowed or broad, stalked or sessile ; 
flowers 1 in. diam., greenish, in many flowered short racemes 
4-6 in. long, bracts thin, equal to the ovaries, sepals 4-2 in, 
long, oblong-lanceolate, thin, 8-nerved, tips thread-like, 
as long as or shorter than the blade, petals deeply lobed, 
lobes slender, equal, or lower shorter, sometimes absent, 
lip divided into 3 thread-like segments, spur long, 
slender, equal to the ovary, anther-cells narrow, stigmatic 
processes long, club-shaped, rostellum large, triangular, 
erect ; capsule 3-§ in., linear-oblong. 
like the last species, but leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, 
bracts larger than the flowers, spur nearly clubbed with a 
minute erect tongue at mouth, capsule spindle-shaped, 
ribs thick, 
