HabenariaJ] OXLTIII. ORCHIDS^. (J. D. Hooker.) 141 



glands large orbicular, lying close together on each side of the erect acute rostellum ; 

 (stigmatic processes short, truncate, Dalzell). A very anomalous species of this 

 section. 



ft Lip deeply 3-lobed or -partite, 'muck longer than the lateral sepals. 



28. H. longifolia, Ham. in Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 324; stein tall 

 slender leafy, leaves very narrow, spike few- and lax-fld., bracts slender 

 longer than the slender beaked ovaries, sepals small, petals gibbously 

 ovate, lip flabelliform, side lobes semi-circular quite entire, spur slender 

 twice as long as the ovary. Gymnadenia longifolia, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 

 7060. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Kumaon, Royle ; Nepal, at Nathpur, Hamilton. 



Stem 10-18 in. Leaves 3-5 in., scattered, erect, linear; acuminate. Spike 2-3 

 in. ; bracts f-1 in. ; ovary ^-f in., curved ; flowers white ; lateral sepals in., oblong- 

 lanceolate, 3-nerved, dorsal smaller; petals 3-nerved, as long as the dorsal; lip f 

 in. long and broad, twice or thrice as long as the lateral sepals, midlobe linear, 

 shorter than the side lobes ; anther beaked, cells parallel, tubes upcurved ; stigmatic 

 processes, short, clavate, incurved, surrounding the mouth of the spur ; rostellum long, 

 subulate, erect. 



29. K. plantaginea, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 323; scapigerous, 

 leaves narrowly oblong, scape slender, spike lax-fld., bracts half as long as 

 the beaked ovary, sepals small, petals linear-lanceolate, lip flabelliform, 

 side lobes semi-ovate entire or toothed, midlobe as long linear, spur as 

 long as the ovary very slender. Wight Ic. t. 1710. Gymnadenia platy- 

 phylla, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7053. Orchis platyphyllos, Roxb. Fl. 2nd. iii. 

 609. O. tenuis, Herb. Rottl 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 3-7000 ft., from Garwhal to Sikkim. BEHAR, 

 CENTRAL INDIA, and the DECCAN PENINSULA, from the Concan southwards, 

 Heyne, &c. CEYLON, in the hot drier parts of the Island. 



Leaves 3-6 in., radical, horizontal, acute or obtuse, membranous. Scape 8-12 in., 

 slender ; sheaths small, acuminate ; spike 2-3 in. ; flowers subsecund, white j bracts 

 setaceous or lanceolate; ovary ^ in., curved; sepals i in. long, subequal, acute, 

 3-nerved, dorsal ovate-oblong, lateral falcately oblong ; lip -|-i in. broad, twice as 

 long as the lateral sepals, puberulous, spur 1-1^ in. green ; anther rather broad, cells 

 divergent, tubes short upcurved, pollinia as long as their caudicles, glands elongate ; 

 stigmatic processes large, clavate; rostellum triangular, broad. Capsule f in., 

 turgidly fusiform, curved, beak short slender. In this species the caudicles of the 

 pollinia are at first inserted in the hollow of a single concave 2-lipped or incurved 

 gland of a lanceolate form, which afterwards splits longitudinally, each pollinia 

 carrying away one half. 



30. K. longicalcarata, A. Rich, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, xv. 71, t. 

 3 ; subscapigerous, leaves linear-oblong or lanceolate, flowers 1-4, bracts 

 long convolute much shorter than the long-pedicelled beaked ovaries, sepals 

 broad obtuse, petals oblong-lanceolate acuminate, side lobes of lip dimi- 

 diate-ovate acuminate fimbriate or toothed, spur several times longer than 

 the long narrow ovary. Wight Ic. t. 925 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 268. 

 H. decipiens, Wight. Ic. v. Pt. i. 14. H. montana, Wight Ic. t. 1714 (upper 

 right and left hand figures) (not of A. Richard.) H. longicornicuiata, 

 Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 202. H. macroceratitis, Herb. Rottl. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA ; on the Western Ghats, from the Concan to Travancore, 

 ascending to 6000 ft. 



Stem or scape 10-18 in. ; sheaths few, distant. Leaves 2-4 in. Flowers white, 

 asmine-scented ; bracts f-1 in. ; ovary 1 in., suberect, its pedicel sometimes as long ; 

 sepals in. long, 3-nerved; lip f-1 in. long, spur thickened from below the middle to 



