164 cxLViir. ORCHIDE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Halenana . 



andra, Reidib. f. in Linntea, xxv. 226. P. Championi, Lindl. in Hook. 

 Journ. Sot. vii. (1855) 38. G-ymnadenia obcordata & galeandra, JReic/ib.f. 

 Ot, Hamb. 32, 33. Orchis obcordata, Don Prodr. 230. O. Susanna, 

 Serb. Seyne. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallich ; Kumaon, Blinkworth, alt. 7000 ft., 

 Strachey fy Winterlottom. CENTRAL INDIA; Havvalbagh, Clarke. DISTRIB. 

 China. 



Tubers small, globose or oblong. Stem 6-8 in., rather slender, glabrous or 

 puberulous. Leaves 1-2 in., rarely subacute ; bases not sheathing. Spike 2-4 in. ; 

 bracts oblong-ovate or lanceolate, lower twice as long as the pale purple flowers, 

 upper shorter; ovaries,-^ in. long, glabrous or puberulous; dorsal sepal ovate, 

 lateral falcately lanceolate; petals rather narrower, obtuse; lip shortly clawed, 

 base puberulous ; anther-cells approximate ; rostellum very minute. I do not find 

 the difference between the spurs of the Indian, and Chinese plant that Lindley 

 indicates. 



VAR. nilagirica; leaves broader acute, bases sheathing. Platanthera affinis, 

 Wight Ic. t. 1693. Travancore, on the Pulney Mts., Heyne, Wight. 



VAR. major', stem 12-18 in., leaves and larger flowers more remote. Khasia 

 Hills ; at Myrung, alt. 5000 ft., J. D. H. fy T. T. 



101. XX. j ant ha, Benth. in Gen. Plant, iii. 626 ; leaves imbricate 

 ovate or lanceolate amplexicaul acuminate, flowers f in. diam., lip broadly 

 flabelliform or orbicular-obovate retuse crenulate, spur very short conical 

 obtuse. Platanthera jantha, Wight Ic. v. 11 (? 1. 1692). 



MALABAR and TRAVANCORE ; on the Nilghiri and Pulney Mts., Wiglit. 



Except in being more robust and having much larger flowers, this hardly differs 

 from If. obcordata. Wight gives the larger flowers as a character, but in his figure 

 t. 1692 they are represented as even smaller. In his specimen the lip is f in. diam. ; 

 he describes the flowers as deep lilac, and the leaves as of the same colour and 

 streaked with a darker shade. Probably a large state H. obcordata. 



102. K. Helferi, Hook./.-, stem pubescent, leaves and bracts linear- 

 or oblong-lanceolate acuminate, flowers 1-1| in. diam., lip very large 

 orbicular cucullate, spur infundibular acute. Gymnadenia Helferi, Beichb. 



f. in Flora 1872, 276 ; in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 139. 



ASSAM (Herb. Wight) KHASIA MTS., Simons. TENASSERIM, at Moulmein, Lobb. 

 Heifer, Parish. 



Stem 12-18 in., rather stout; tubers oblong. Leaves 4-8 in., sessile, acuminate, 

 base narrowed. Flowers shortly pedicelled ; sepals falcately-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 nearly 1 in. long, green, lateral at length recurved ; petals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 green ; lip twice as large as the sepals, very concave with recurved edges, folded down 

 the centre, purple; anther obtusely apiculate, cells narrow parallel, tubes very short, 

 pollinia clavate, as long as their broadly winged caudicles, glands approximate, rather 

 large; stigmatic processes obscure; rostellum small, fleshy, 3-lobed, erecb between 

 the gland. Capsule f in., linear-oblong, sessile, erect, ribs thick. Reichenbach 

 describes the lip as broad or narrow. 



Sect. VII. PLECTOGLOSSA. (See p. 132.) 



103. H. Perrottetiana, A. Rich, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, xv. 74, 

 t. 4 B. PJatanthera lutea, Wight Ic. t. 919. H. lutea, Benth. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xviii. 354 ; Gen. Plant, iii. 626. 



TRAVANCORE ; as the Pulney Mts. amongst long grass, Wight. Nilghiri Hills, 

 Perrottet. 



Stem 1-2 ft., very stout ; clothed with short imbricating amplexicaul sheathing 

 acuminate leaves 2-3 in. long that pass upward into the bracts. Spike 6-8 in. ; 



