226 OECHIDACEM. [ HABENARIA. 



Stem stout, 10-18 in. high, sheathed at the base, leafy below the middle 

 bracteate above. Leaves 3-4J in. long, elliptic, acute or acuminate. 

 Racemes 5-1 in. long, laxly many-fld. Flowers about J in. across from 

 base to apex, green ; floral bracts about as long as the ovary, lanceolate, 

 acuminate. Sepals unequal ; dorsal one ovate-oblong, obtuse, con- 

 cave ; lateral pair shorter, broadly and falcately lanceolate, acute or 

 acuminate, spreading. Petals as long as the dorsal sepal and with it 

 forming a hood over the column, oblong, retuse. Lip 3-partite, 

 longer than the sepals ; lateral segments filiform, diverging, curved, 

 longer than the stouter blunt midlobe. Spur slender, longer than 

 the ovary, laterally compressed, curved at the apex. Anther-cells 

 contiguous, diverging at their base^, the tubes rather short, up-curved. 

 Pollinia falcately ovoid ; caudicles slender, slightly curved ; glands- 

 narrowly oblong. Staminodes large, broadly oblong. Stigmatic pro- 

 cesses short. Capsule fusiform, decurved, shortly beaked, promi- 

 nently ribbed. 



Dehra Dun and Siwalik range (Mackinnon, Duthie). Flowers during. 

 Aug. and Sep. DISTEIB. : Outer ranges of "W. Himalaya in Garhwal, 

 up to 6,000 ft., and eastwards to Sikkim and Bhutan ; also in Bengal. 

 'Assam, Orissa, and extending to Upper Burma. 



8. H. marginata, Colebr. in Hook. Flor. Exot. t. 136 ; Hook, f, 

 F. B. I. vi, 150 ; Collett Fl. Siml 504 ; Prain Beng. PL 1033 ; Duthie 

 Ann. It. Bot. Gard. Calc. ix, part 2, 184, t. 136 ; CooJce Fl. Bomb, 



a, 721. 



Subscapigerous, glabrous. Tubers small, narrowly cylindric. Leaves 

 few, subradical, sessile, ^-5 in. long, oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 3-5-nerved ; margins pale-yellow. Scape 4-10 in. long ; sheaths 

 erect, lanceolate, acuminate. Spike 2-6 in. long, many-fld. ; floral 

 bracts nearly as long as the ovary, lanceolate, acuminate, with pale 

 ciliolate margins. Flowers | in. across. Sepals green ; dorsal one 

 J in. long, erect, broadly ovate ; lateral longer, falcately oblong- 

 lanceolate, spreading or deflexed, 3-5 nerved. Petals \ in. long, 

 falcately oblong, closely adpressed to the dorsal sepal. Lip nearly 

 J in. long, 3-partite nearly to the base, lateral segments narrowed 

 into filiform tips ; midlobe shorter and broader, the margins 

 inflexed. Spur about as long as the curved ovary, laterally com- 

 pressed at the fusiform apex. Anther-cells distant ; tubes funnel- 

 sKaped, short, spreading. Pollinia obovate, with short geniculate 

 caudicles ; glands triangular. Staminodes elongate. Stigmatic 

 processes long, -adnate to the base of the column. Capsule about | in. 

 long, fusiform, turgid. 



