224 ORCHIDACEJE. [ HABENAEJA. 



4. H, plantaginea, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 323 ; Hook. f. 

 F. B. I. vi, 141 ; Prain. Beng. PL 1032 ; Duthie Ann. E. Bot. Gard. 

 Calc. ix, part 2, 181, t. 132 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 718. Orchis platy 

 phyllos, Eoxb. Fl. 2nd. Hi, 609. 



Tubers ellipsoid, about l in. long. Stem scapigerous. Leaves about 

 three or four, radical, horizontal, 3-6 in. long, elliptic-oblong, sub- 

 obtuse, membranous. Scape slender, 8-12 in. high, bearing many 

 lanceolate acuminate bracts, the lowest often larger and leaflike. 

 Spike 2-5 in. long, laxly flowered. Flowers subsecund, white ; floral 

 bracts lanceolate, acuminate or setaceous, half as long as the cuived 

 beaked ovary. Sepals subequal, about \ in. long, strongly 3-nerved, 

 white tinged with green ; dorsal erect, ovate-oblong ; the lateral pair 

 falcately oblong, spreading. Petals linear-lanceolate, adpressed to 

 and forming a hood with the dorsal sepal. Lip 3-lobed, flabelliform, 

 clawed, twice as long as the lateral sepals, puberulous ; side-lobes 

 semiovate, entire or with undulate margins, often overlapping at their 

 tips ; midlobe a little shorter, linear-oblong, deflexed. Spur equal to 

 or longer than the ovary, tapering to the apex, gree v nish-yellow. 

 Anther broad, cells divergent ; tubes short, upcurved. Pollinia 

 globose or ellipsoid ; caudicles curved, widening upwards from a 

 narrow base ; glands falcately ovate, connate when young. Stigmatic 

 processes, large, fleshy, oblong ; rostellum triangular, broad. Stamin 

 nodes prominent with sinuate margins. Capsule in. long, turgid, 

 curved. 



Dehra Dun (Falconer, Duthie). Flowers Sep. and Oct. DISTKIB. : 

 Outer Himalayan ranges of Garhwal and Kumaon up to 7,000 ft. ; 

 also in Sikkim and Bengal and southwards to the Konkan and Deccan 

 to Ceylon. 



5. H. commellnlfolia, Wall, in Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch 325 ; 

 Hook. /. F. B. I. vi, 143 ; Prain Beng. PL 1032 ; Duthie Ann. R. 

 Bot. Gard. Calc. ix, part 2, 183, t. 134 ; Cooke Fl Bomb, ii, 719. 

 Orchis commelinifolia, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 451. 



Stem 2-3 ft. high, loosely sheathed at the base. Tubers ellipsoid or cylin- 

 dric. Leaves scattered, 3-6 in. long, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, sub- 

 cordate, acute and often subspinescent at the tips, margins pale. Spike 

 4-8 in. long, many- and loosely flowered ; flowering bracts erect, 

 nearly equalling the long-beaked ovary, scaberulous on both surfaces 

 and ciliolate on the margins. Flowers J-f in. in diam., white, inodor- 

 ous. Sepals scaberulous ; dorsal small, saccate, with a short curved 

 beak ; lateral pair spreading, much shorter, hatchet-shaped, beaked, 



