224 ORCHIDACEZ. [ HapEnarta. 
4. H, plantaginea, Jind]. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 323; Hook. f. 
FP. B. I. vi, 141 ; Prain. Beng. Pl. 1032 ; Duthie Ann. R. Bot. Gard. 
Calc. ix, part 2, 181, t. 132 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii, 718. Orchis platy 
phyllos, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 609. 
Tubers ellipsoid, about 14 in. long. Stem scapigerous. Leaves about 
three or four, radical, horizontal, 3-6 in. long, elliptic-oblong, sub- 
obtuse, membranous, Scape slender, 8-12 in. high, bearing many 
lanceolate acuminate bracts, the lowest often larger and leaflike. 
Spike 2-5 in. long, laxly flowered. Flowers subsecund, white ; floral 
bracts lanceolate, acuminate or setaceous, half as long as the curved 
beaked ovary. Sepals subequal, about } in. long, strongly 3-nerved, 
white tinged with green ; dorsal erect, ovate-oblong ; the lateral pair 
falcately oblong, spreading. Petals linear-lanceolate, adpressed to 
and forming a hood with the dorsal sepal. Lip 3-lobed, flabelliform, 
clawed, twice as long as the lateral sepals, puberulous; side-lobes 
semiovate, entire or with undulate margins, often overlapping at their 
tips ; midlobe a little shorter, linear-oblong, deflexed. Spur equal to 
or longer than the ovary, tapering to the apex, greénish-yellow. 
Anther broad, cells divergent; tubes short, upeurved. Pollinia 
globose or ellipsoid; caudicles curved, widening upwards from a 
narrow base ; glands falcately ovate, connate when young. Stigmatic 
processes, large, fleshy, oblong; rostellum triangular, broad. Stamin 
nodes prominent with sinuate margins. Capsule } in. long, turgid, 
curved. 
Dehra Dun (Falconer, Duthie). Flowers Sep. and Oct. DrstRt1B.: 
Outer Himalayan ranges of Garhwal and Kumaon up to 7,000 ft. ; 
also in Sikkim and Bengal and southwards to the Konkan and Deccan 
to Ceylon. 
5. H. commelinifolia, Wall. in Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch 325; 
Hook. f. F. B. I. vt, 143 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 1032 ; Duthie Ann. R. 
Bot. Gard. Cale. iz, part 2, 183, t. 134 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. wi, 719. 
Orchis commelinifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. wi, 451. 
Stem 2-3 ft. high, loosely sheathed at the base. T'ubers ellipsoid or cylin- 
dric. Leaves scattered, 3-6 in. long, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, sub- 
cordate, acute and often subspinescent at the tips, margins pale. Spike 
4-8 in. long. many-and loosely flowered ; flowering bracts erect, 
nearly equalling the long-beaked Baty. scaberulous on both surfaces 
and ciliolate on the margins. Flowers 4-3 in. in diam., white, inodor- 
ous. Sepals scaberulous ; dorsal small, saccate, with a short curved 
beak ; lateral pair spreading, much shorter, hatchet-shaped, beaked, 
