Hapenaria. ] ORCHIDACER. 223 
R. Bot. Gard. Cale. ix, part 2, 178, t. 128. H. gigantea, 
Don. Prod. 24, Platanthera Susanne, Lindl. ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. 
si, 7135. Orchis Susanne, Linn. 
- Height of plant about 2 ft. T'ubers elongate, 3-4 in. long. Stem stout 
with many blunt funnel-shaped sheaths on its lower portion. Leaves 
2-6 in. long, ovate-oblong, obtuse, the upper ones bract-like, acumni- 
nate, imbricate. Raceme 3-5-fld. ; floral bracts longer than the ovary, 
cucullate, acuminate. Flowers subsessile, 3-4 in. in diam. white 
tinged with greenish-yellow, fragrant. Sepals very broad, spreading, 
the dorsal one suborbicular, about 14 in. long and broad; lateral 
pair 1} in. long, obliquely oblong, obtuse. Petals } in. long, linear 
falcate, acute, fleshy. Lip 3-lobed, about as long as the sepals, 
fleshy ; side-lobes very broad, truncate, deeply pectinate ; midlobe 
linear-spathulate, with recurved margins. Spur slender more than 
twice the length of the elongate ovary. Anther very broad, cells 
divergent ; tubes long, adnate to the sides of the column. Pollinia 
linear, curved, yellow, about as long as their white flexuous caudicles ; 
glands ovoid, white. Staminodes linear-oblong, with crisped margins. 
Stigma on the front of the column. Capsule with pedical 2 in. long, 
ellipsoid, beaked. 
Siwalik range (Royle). Flowers July-Sep. Distr1s.: Outer Hima- 
layan ranges in Garhwal and Kumaon up to 6,000 ft. ; Chota Nagpur 
and in the hilly districts of Bombay and S. India, extending to 
Burma, China and the Malay Archipelago. 
3. H. longifolia, Buch.-Ham. in Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 324 ; 
F. B. I. vi, 141 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 1032 ; Duthie Ann. R. Bot. Gard. 
Calc. ix, part 2, 181. H. trapezoidea, Falc. mss. 
Stem 10-18 in. high, slender, leafy. Leaves 3-5 in. long, scattered 
erect, linear, acuminate, smaller upwards. Spike 2-2} in. long, 
few and laxly fid.; floral bracts linear, acuminate, longer than the 
slender beaked ovary. Flowers medium-sized, white. Sepals 
minute, the lateral pair } in. long, oblong-lanceolate, 3-nerved, 
larger than the dorsal one. Petals gibbously ovate, as long as the 
dorsal sepal, 3-nerved. Lip flabelliform, }-2in. long and_ broad ; 
side-lobes semicircular, entire; midlobe linear, shorter than the 
side-lobes. Spur slender, twice as long as the ovary, green. A nther 
beaked, cells parallel; tubes incurved. Stigmatic processes short, 
clavate, incurved towards the mouth of the spur. ostellum long, 
erect, spathulate. 
Siwalik range, on the Mohand Pass (‘‘ Portus Kheree”’) Royle. Drs- 
Tris. : N. Bengal at Nathpur in Purnea (Buch.-Hamilton). I have 
geen no living or herbarium specimens of this plant. 
