492 
Plants of the Punjab. 
Herss, UNBRANCHED, WITH ALTERNATE ExstTIPULATE SiMpLE LEAVEs. 
Habenaria Susanne, 
ORCHIDACES. 
Bee 1s vi. 1ST. 
Himalaya, 
east of the Sutlej. 
Simla below 
6,000 ft. 
(Collett). 
Brogh, Sanawar. 
Habenaria pectinata, 
ORCHIDACER. 
HSB. 2 vt. 137. 
Himalaya, 
east of the Sutlej, 
5-8,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Habenaria arietina, 
ORCHIDACEA. 
F. B. I. vi. 138. 
Himalaya, 
east of the Sutlej, 
5-8,000 ft. 
Habenaria 
intermedia, 
ORCHIDACER. 
| 6 ER 
Himalaya, 
5-7,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Kishmir. 
PETALS UNITED. 
STAMENS NONE 
ANTHER ONE, 
large, perennial, tubers 3-4 in. long, stem 2-4 ft., stout, 
leafy ; leaves 2-6 in., ovate-oblong, upper hooded, sheath- 
ing ; flowers 2-4 in. diam., white, fragrant, nearly sessile, 
erect, in a 3-5-flowered raceme, bracts leafy, sepals spread- 
ing, lateral oblong, ascending, blunt, dorsal very broad, 
petals small, linear, short-pointed, lip not longer than 
the sepals, 8-lobed, side-lobes broad, margins cut into comb- 
like fringes, segments unequal, often forked, mid-lobe 
narrowly lanceolate, entire spur green, slender, 4-5 in. long’, 
no stigmatic processes, rostellum very little marked. 
medium size, perennial, root tuberous, stem 12-24 in., 
very leafy, stout; leaves 4-6 in. long, ovate-lanceolate, 
rarely linear, upper or all sheathing, flowers 1-2 in. diam., 
white or yellowish-green, on a dense-flowered spike, 3-8 in, 
long, bracts leafy, equalling or longer than the flowers, 
sepals 5-nerved, dorsal lanceolate, erect, lateral ovate- 
lanceolate, petals linear, sword-shaped, smooth, blunt, 
slightly dilated on the. outer margin, 8-5-nerved, lip as 
long as the sepals, side-lobes fringed, comb-like, mid-lobe 
linear, entire, spur 4-2 in., tip almost clubbed, anther very 
large, stigmatic processes long, tips often sword-shaped, 
dilated, upcurved, rostellum just visible; capsule 3 in., 
sessile, spindle-shaped, ribs thick. This plant becomes 
black when dry. 
very like the last species, but petals velvety, not 
smooth, broader than the dorsal sepal, pouched on the lower 
margin, spur hardly clubbed at the tip. This plant 
becomes black when dry. 
small, perennial, root tuberous, stem 8-10 in. ; leaves 
9-4 in., ovate or oblong, long-pointed, 5-7-nerved, base 
rounded or heart-shaped; flowers 2 in. diam., white or 
greenish, in few-flowered racemes, bracts broad, lower 
longer than the flowers, upper equal to the ovary, dorsai 
sepal recurved, white within, lateral reflexed, lanceolate, 
long-pointed, 5-nerved, petals strongly 5-nerved, lip 3- 
lobed to rds of its length, greenish-yellow except the 
narrow white base, side-lobes deeply fringed, segments 
