1. Habenaria.] 159. OROHIBACEJE. 



oblong or narrowly oblong, 3-4" long. Spike 2-4" long of yellow 

 flowers or lip yellow and remainder yellowish-green (in our plant), 

 curved, -8" long (with the ovary). Median sepal broadly ovate, 

 nearly -25", lateral oblong-lanceolate, as long, 3-5-nerved. Lip 

 longer 3 -partite, side-lobes slender, longer than the linear obtuse 

 central lobe. Spur stout equalling or shorter than the curved ovary, 

 inflated clavate or fusiform below the middle. 



Rajmahal Hills, Kurz ! Manbhum : Tundi Hills, Campbell ! Jonah, Prain I 

 Jaspitr, Curdo)! ! Fl. .Sept.-Oct. 



Collett describes the (hill) plant as " very pretty with bright yellow flowers," 

 Robertson as " a small ground orchid with orange-yellow flowers, rather fleshy." 

 Sheaths on the scape many erect, lanceolate. Bracts ciliolate. Petals ovate 

 falcate, 2-nerved. Capsule -5", fusiform, ciuved, obscvu-ely beaked. 



13. H. diphylla, Dalz. 



A dwarf terrestrial orchid 6-10" high with a single pair of orbicular 

 or elliptic cordate-based nerveless blue-green leaves '75-2" long, 

 closely adpressed to the ground. FloAvers white and greenish '5" 

 diam. (or only -25" in the cleistogamous form), in a narrow spike 2-4" 

 long with lanceolate acuminate appressed bracts "25" long. Sepals 

 subequal, lateral spreading white or greenish oblong 3 -nerved, dorsal 

 sepal green ovate conniving with the smaller petals. Lip 3-partite, 

 much longer (about -25" in the cleistogamous form), with a ligulate 

 mid-lobe and 2 short linear fleshy green side-lobes or {fide F.B.I.) 

 the side-lobes longer. Ovary and spur about -5". 



On damp clay. Singbhiim ! Jaspur, Cardon ! Fl. Sept. 



Eoot of 2 tubers with fleshy fibres from base of stem. L. punctulate when 

 fresh unequal. Scape with many small sheaths below the spike. Petals linear. 

 Anther broad, cells diverging, tubes very short. Ovary inflated acute, scarcely 

 beaked, rostellum obsciue, stigmatic processes clavate adnate to the mouth of 

 the spiu. 



14. H. stenantha. Hook. f. 



A single specimen collected by Rev. Cardon in Chota Nagpur was so-named in 

 the Calcutta Bot. Card., but H. stenantha is a plant of the temperate Himalaya and 

 confirmation is necessary. It might be H. latilabris. Hook. /., which has been 

 collected in Central India. The sepals are linear deflexed and the petals of stenantha 

 are erect and linear, whereas those of latilabris are more or less ovate. It flowered 

 in Aug. in the Hort. Bot. Cal., but I did not see it in flower. 



15. H. galeandra, Benth. Syn. Platenthera obcordata, Lindl., in 



Wall. Cat. No. 7050. 



A distinct-looking species 6-10" high with a cluster of 3-4 ellipsoid 

 tubers and a ver}' leafy stem, the leaves ovate to oblong and the largest 

 only about 2" on the lower part of the stem, whence they are 

 gradually reduced upAvards and imperceptibly pass into the bracts. 

 Spike 2-4" long, bracts oblong-ovate to lanceolate, lower much longer 

 than the flowers. Flowers pale purple, perianth •2-- 25" long and 

 about -5" diam. with ovate dorsal sepal, falcately lanceolate lateral 

 sepals, rather narrower obtuse petals, cuneiformly obovate or obcor- 

 date lip and a short stout cylindric spur • 1" long only. 



Chota Nagpur, Wood (without precise locality). Fl. July. 



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