152 CXLVIII. ORCHIDE^;. (J. D. Hooker.) \Habenaria. 



than the ovary, sepals ovate-oblong subequal, petals as long linear, lip 

 much longer than the sepals 3-partite, segments filiform lateral longest, 

 spur about equalling the ovary inflated acute. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 268. H. Jerdoniana, Wight Ic. t. 1715. H. Sutleri, Reichb.f. in Linncea 

 xxv. 229. Platanthera canarensis, Lindl. in Plant. Hohenack exsicc., 

 No. 142. Liparis diphyllos, Nimmo in Grak. Cat. JBomb. PL. 252. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; Garwhal, Falconer. EASTEEN BENGAL; Dacca, Clarke. 

 The DECCAN PENINSULA ; from the Concan to Malabar. 



Leaves 1-2 in. diani., thinly fleshy. Scape 4-lU in., slender ; sheaths many, 

 small. Spike 2-4 in., narrow ; bracts in., acute ; flowers about ^ in. diam. ; ovary 

 in., hardly beaked ; dorsal sepal ovate, lateral oblong, acute, 3-nerved ; anther 

 broad, cells diverging, tubes very short; stigmatic processes elongate, clavate, 

 adnate to the mouth of the spur ; rostellum obscure. 



65. H. Aitchisoni, Beiclib. /. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, Sot. iii. 

 113 ; leaves opposite orbicular cuspidate, scape tall, spike elongate, flowers 

 subsecund erect, bracts half as long as the ova,ry, sepals subequal oblong- 

 ovate obtuse, petals as long ovate-lanceolate, lip as long as the sepals 3- 

 partite above the base, side segments longest spreading and recurved, spur 

 shorter than the short curved ovary clavate. H. brachyphylla, AitcJi. fy 

 Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. 118. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Kashmir, alt. 7000 ft., Falconer, &c. ; Kumaon, 

 alt. 9-12,000 ft., Duthie ; Sikkim, alt. 10-11,000 ft., J. D. H. DISTRIB. Aff- 

 ghanistan. 



Very variable in size and stoutness, 10-18 in. high. Leaves inserted above the 

 base of the stem, 1-3 in. broad, not margined. Scape sometimes as thick as a goose- 

 quill ; sheaths few, small ; spike rather dense-fld. ; bracts J in., acute or acuminate ; 

 flowers ^ in. diam., greenish ; sepals 3-nerved, lateral spreading, dorsal erect ; petals 

 1-nerved; mid-segment of lip straight; anther short, broad, cells parallel, tubes very 

 short upcurved ; stigmatic processes large, clavate ; rostellum minute. 



Var. Joseph i ; smaller, 2-4 in. high, leaves 1-1| in., spike few-fld. H. Josephi, 

 Reiclib.f. I. c. 114. Kumaon, alt. 10-11,000 ft., Duthie ; Sikkim, alt. 12-14,000 ft., 

 J. D. H., King's Collector. 



66. H. reniformis, HooTc. f. ; leaves 1-2 radical orbicular or oblong, 

 scape slender few-fld., bracts much shorter than the ovary, sepals and petals 

 subequal ovate or ovate-lanceolate acute, lip longer than the sepals entire 

 or 3-partite with slender segments, spur shorter than the ovary or 0. 

 Herminium reniforme, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7067. Aopla reniformis, Lindl. 

 in Bot. Reg. under t. 1701 ; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 304, 457 ; Benth. Fl. 

 HongJc. 363. Listera reniformis, Don Prodr. 28. 



NEPAL, Wallich. KHASIA HILLS, alt. 4-5003 ft., Lobb, &c. DISTRIB. China. 



Leaves -|-f in. long, fleshy, very variable in form, sessile, obtuse. Scape with 

 4 6-fld. spike 3-6 in., wiry; sheaths few, small; bracts lanceolate; flowers about 

 -J in. diam., green ; sepals 3-nerved, lateral deflexed ; lip (in the Peloria state) entire 

 and linear-oblong, or with two small basal teeth ; in the perfect state with three 

 very narrow often tortuous divaricate segments longer than the sepals ; spur usually 

 wholly absent, if present slender, nearly as long as the ovary, slightly incurved ; 

 anther-cells nearly parallel, tubes very short ; caudicles of pollinia short, glands large ? ; 

 stigmatic processes large, subcylindric or clavate ; rostellum short, triangular, acute. 

 A puzzling little plant, which in the Khasia usually and in ^'epal has been collected 

 only in the Peloria form, without spur, and with an entire lip. Bentham (in Gen. 

 Plant.) retains it in Herminium from which it differs in being normally spurred. It 

 is obviously allied to H. Aitchisoni. 



