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the veins deeply looped or arched. Petals unequally oblong, smaller 

 than the lateral sepals. Lip divided into three long filiform seg- 

 ments, about 1 in. long from its base to the tip of the mid-segment ; 

 lateral ones 1 J in. long, curved downwards ; mid-segment channelled 

 above, spreading, scaberulous ; spur 1J-2J in. long, slender and 

 curved downwards, its upper portion funnel-shaped and white, its 

 apex clavate and green. Anther -cells elongate, distant, diverging 

 at the base ; tubes long, straight. Pollinia small, oval ; caudicles 

 very long, dilated upwards, translucent ; glands minute. Staminodes 

 seated on the long arms of the column and curving round in front of 

 the anther tubes. Stigmatic processes large, clavate, incurved ; 

 rostellum triangular. 



.Dehra Dun and Siwalik range, usually in open grassy places (Mackinnon, 

 Duthie). Flowers during Aug. and Sep. DISTRIB. : Outer ranges 

 of W. Himalaya from the Punjab to Kumaon, up to 5,000 ft., ex- 

 tending eastwards to Parasnath, Chota Nagpur and Upper Burma, 

 and south to Cent. W. and S. India. 



6. H. putoescens, Lindl Gen. & Sp. Orch. 322 ; Hook. f. F. B. I. 

 vi, 144 ; Duthie Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. ix, part 2, 183, t. 135. 



.Tubers elongate, stout, often divided, and with a few thick fleshy fibres 

 from their summits. Stem 12-18 in. high, clothed at the base with a 

 few tight-fitting pubescent sheaths. Leaves crowded towards the 

 middle or base of the stem, 4-6 in. long, lanceolate, acuminate, taper- 

 ing to the base, 7-9 nerved, undulate, not margined. Raceme with 

 a few empty leaflike bracts at its base, 8-10 in. long, lax, many-fld., 

 pubescent ; floral bracts longer than the long-beaked ovary, ovate 

 lanceolate, acuminate, ciliolate. Flowers small, greenish-yellow. 

 Dorsal nepal -J in. long, broadly ovate, a little shorter than 

 the dimidiate-ovate obtuse deflexed lateral ones. Petals narrowly 

 falcate, longer than the dorsal sepal and forming with it a hood over 

 the column. Lip 3 -partite, longer than the sepals ; segments linear 

 with filiform tips ; midlobe shorter, obtuse, keeled beneath. Spur 

 slender, about as long as the curved ovary. Anther-tubes long, flexu- 

 ous. Pollinia ovate, obliquely attached to the long slender flexuous 

 caudicles ; glands flat ; Staminodes prominent. Stigmatic processes 

 globose. Capsule curved and with a long beak, prominently ridged. 



Dehra Dun (Mackinnon). DISTRIB. : Outer ranges of W. Himalaya in 

 Garhwal and Kumaon, up to 5,500 ft. (Royle, Falconer, Duthie). 



7. H. furcifera, Lindl Gen. d> Sp. Orch. 319 ; Hook. /. F. B. I., 

 vi, 149 ; K. and P. Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 313, t. 410 ; 

 Duthie id. ix part 2, 184. 



