Plate 2321. 



HABENARIA SECUNDIFLORA, Uooh f. 



Orchide^. Tribe Ophryde.e. 



H. (ripyla) secuBdiflora, Ilooh. /. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 165; puuiila, 

 tuberibus subglobosis, caule erecto v. recurvo, foliis paucis linearibus 

 acummatis lateribus coinplicatis, spica densiflora, bracteis lineari- 

 anceolatis inferioribus flores secundos longe superantibus sepalis 

 anceolatis 1-nerviis, lateralibus petalisque angustioribus falcatis erectis, 

 labello sepalis a^quilongo lineari-oblongo tritido puberulo, lobis paral- 

 lehs ovatis lanceolatisve acutis, calcare labello paullo breviore conoideo, 

 pollinia glanduLne unieai affixa, glandula lobis 2 inflexis rostelli operta. 



Hab. Subalpine Himalaya ; Kumaon, alt. 9,000-10,000 feet, Duthh ; 

 hikkim, alt. 14,000 feet, J. D. Hooker; Chumbi (Tibetan Sikkini), 

 A mg s collectors. 



Herba 3-5-pollicaris, gracilis. Folia 2-3, cauli fere ajquilonga, basi 

 vagmantia. SjAca 1-2-pollicaris ; flores rosei, ad \ poll. lati. Sepaki 

 et petala in laminam erectam conniventia. Labellum decurvum. 



Peristyliis section 



and with the 



At^T^ c^i^ious plant, technically a member of the Peri 



ot JJabenaria, but very unlike any species of it in habit, - 



t^^o poihnia attached to one obcordate gland, which is covered by the 

 muected lobes of the rostellum. I have carefully dissected every 

 -Indian and many other Habenarias and found no structure like this in 



p">-1"t ^^^^'^ ^^ ™y remarks under Habenaria in the 'Flora of 

 -t'litish India,' vol. vi. p. 132, suggested that it should form a distinct 

 ftenus, should observations in the living plant confirm these characters, 

 dri H '^Ti "^°^* difficult of observation in specimens that have been 

 ,,^^7 likeness of the plant to another aherrani Habenaria, H. 



«r 7 "^ (Clarke in 'Journ. Linn. Soc' xxv. 73, t. 30, Diphylax 

 7oZ '• ^- "' ' ^'^^ ^^•' *• ^^63)' i« striking, but superficial. The 



of a^7^^^ °^ ^^^ glands of the pollinia is what occurs in some sections 

 rcliis and in Aceras, and being foreign to Habenaria is a further 

 eason tor regarding Dipyla as a distinct genus.-J. D. H. 



S Cofum ^^t ^""^ P^^''^^'' cohering. 2. Lateral sepaL 3. Petal. 4. Lip. 

 Proces«?!i^Ti-' . '^° lol'f's of the rostellum spread apart and lying parallel to 

 ^ '''' °^ ^^^ stigma. 6. Pollinia. All enlarged. 



