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226 ~ - ORCHIDACER. [ Hapenanra. ! 
Stem stout, 10-18 in. high, sheathed at the base, leafy below the middle 
" bracteate above. Leaves 3-44 in. long, elliptic, acute or acuminate. 
Racemes 5-7 in. long, laxly many-fld. Flowers about 3} in. across from 
base to apex, green ; floral bracts about aslong as the Bae lanceolate,. 
acuminate. Sepals unequal; dorsal one ovate-oblong, obtuse, con- 
cave ; lateral pair shorter, broadly,and falcately lanceolate, acute or 
acuminate, spreading. Petals as long as the dorsal sepal and with it 
forming a hood over the column, oblong, retuse. Lip 3-partite, 
longer than the sepals ; lateral segments filiform, diverging, curved, 
longer than the stouter blunt midlobe. Spur slender, longer than 
the ovary, laterally compressed, curved at the apex. Anther-cells 
contiguous, diverging at their bases, the tubes rather short, up-curved. 
Pollinia falcately ovoid ; caudicles slender, slightly curved; glands 
narrowly oblong. Staminodes large, broadly oblong. Stigmatic pro- 
cesses short. Capsule fusiform, decurved, shortly beaked, promi- 
nently ribbed. 
Dehra Dun and Siwalik range (Mackinnon, Duthie). Flowers during 
Aug. and Sep. DIstTRIn. : Outer ranges of W. Himalaya in Garhwal, 
up to 6,000 ft., and eastwards to Sikkim and Bhutan ; also in Bengal, 
~ Aseam, Orissa, and extending to Upper Burma. 
8. H. marginata, Colebr. in Hook. Flor. Exot. t. 136; Hook, f. 
F. B. I. vi, 150 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 504 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 1033 ; Duthie 
Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Cale. ix, part 2, 184, t. 136 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb.. 
2,721. 
Subscapigerous, glabrous. Zwbers small, narrowly cylindric. Leaves- 
few, subradical, sessile, 3-5 in. long, oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse, 
3-5-nerved; margins pale-yellow. Scape 4-10 in. long; sheaths 
erect, iaanbolates acuminate. Spike 2-6 in. long, many-fid. ; floral 
bracts nearly as long as the ovary, lanceolate, acuminate, with pale 
ciliolate margins, Flowers 34 in. across. Sepals green; dorsal one 
4 in. long, erect, broadly ovate; lateral longer, falcately oblong- 
lanceolate, spreading or deflexed, 3-5 nerved. Petals } in. long, 
falcately oblong, closely adpressed to the dorsal sepal. Lip nearly 
+ in. long, 3-partite nearly to the base, lateral segments narrowed 
into filiform tips; midlobe shorter ‘and broader, the margins 
inflexed. Spur about as long as the curved ovary, laterally com- 
pressed at the fusiform apex. Anther-cells distant ; tubes funnel- 
shaped, short, spreading. Pollinia obovate, with short geniculate 
caudicles ; clands triangular.  Staminodes elongate. Stigmatic 
processes long, adnate to the base of the column. Capsule about 4 in. 
long, fusiform, turgid. 
