Hermimum.'] OXLVIIL ORCHIDB^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 129 



musky at night ; sepals and petals subconnivent ; sepals oblong, obtuse ; petals un- 

 equal-sided towards the base, tips fleshy ; lobes and lip narrow, base concave ; 

 rostellum prominent between the base of the anther-cells. 



2. K. ang-ustifolium, Benth. mss. tall, leaves elongate linear, spike 

 very long slender many-fld., bracts equalling the ovary or shorter, flowers 

 decurved, petals linear very narrow 1-nerved, lip linear equalling the 

 sepals in length or longer narrow trifid beyond the middle, side lobes 

 filiform, midlobe very short. Aceras angustifolia, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 

 7061 ; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 232 ; Bot. Sea. under t. 1525 ; in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. iii. 43 ; Boyle III. t. 87 ; Wight Ic. t. 1691. H. longicruris, Wright in 

 Mem. Acad. Philad. Set". 2, vi. 411. Thisbe, Falc. in Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 

 183, c (name only). 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from 4-8000 ft. in the North West, and 6-15,000 ft. 

 (Clarke] in Sikkim. KHASIA HILLS, alt. 5-6000 ft. UPPER ASSAM, in the Naga 

 Hills, alt. 7000 ft., Clarice, Prain. TENASSERIM Parish. DISTRIB. China, Man- 

 churia, Japan. 



Stout or slender, 1-3 ft. high, 1 or several leaved. Leaves scattered, 2-8 in., acute, 

 rarely ^ in. broad. Spike 2-10 in. ; flowers often very many, subsecund ; perianth 

 connivent, T V~i in. diarn., green ; sepals oblong, obtuse ; petals membranous, acute ; 

 lip from as long to twice as long as the sepals or more, base not concave, lateral lobes 

 very slender. Anther-cells parallel, pollinia clavate, glands large, staminodes large 

 spreading ; stigmatic lobes obscure or ; rostellum minute, 2-lobed. Capsule % in., 

 erect, oblong, turgid. Has in Sikkim an extraordinary range in altitude. 



3. XZ. fallax, Hook. f. Ic. Plant, ined. ; slender, leaves 1-2 towards 

 the middle of stem linear or linear-lanceolate, spikes many-fld. subsecund, 

 bracts longer than the short decurved* ovaries, sepals spreading oblong- 

 or ovate-lanceolate broader than the erect narrow falcate petals, lip shorter 

 than the sepals obtusely 3-lobed, sac incurved subdidymous subglobose or 

 clavellate with an inflated tip. Peristylus fallax, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. 

 Orchid. 298. Herminum fallax, Lindl. in Wall. Gat. 7412. Cybele, Falc. 

 in Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 193, c. C. alpina, Falc. mss. 



ALPINE and SUB-ALPINE HIMALAYA, alt. 7-12,000 ft., from Garwhal to Sikkim. 



Very variable in height, from 418 in. ; stem with long tubular sheaths at the 

 base, and one or two lanceolate sheaths above the leaf. Leaves usually solitary about 

 the middle of the stem, 2-5 by ^-1 in., acute, sometimes two subopposite towards 

 the base of the stem. Scape naked; spike 2-5 in., lax or dense fld. j lower bracts 

 f in. or less, lanceolate ; ovary i- in., shortly beaked ; sepals i in., 1-nerved, and 

 petals variable in absolute and relative breadth j lip short and fleshy or narrower, 

 thin, and with distinct nerves, base of limb truncate at the short broad cpncave claw ; 

 anther very small, cells parallel, tubes ; pollinia ovoid, of few very large grains, 

 sessile in the large solid shining glands which are exposed, one on side of the 

 inconspicuous rostellum j stigmatic processes very short, subglobose. 



** Lip entire. Bracts short in all but H. gramineum. 



4. XX. Joseph!, Reichb. f. in Flora ly. (1872) 276; stout, leaves 2 

 rarely 3 lanceolate or oblanceolate, bracts minute, flowers large ^ in. diam. 

 suberect, sepals and petals erect, lip broadly ovate acute. H. grandiflorum, 

 Lindl. in Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. & T. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 11-14,000 ft., J. D. H. 



Plant, 5-12 in. high. Leaves 3-5 by ^-1 in., obtuse acute or acuminate. Spike 

 1-4 in. ; flowers ^ in. diam., not secund ; bracts much shorter than the gibbous 

 ovary; sepals 3 -nerved, lateral falcately ovate, base rounded; petals as long, ovate, 

 tips narrowed thickened obtuse ; lip larger than the sepals, flat, with a thickened 



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