HABEXARIA. ] OPCHIDACEdE. 227 



Dehra Dun and Siwalik range (Duthie). Flowers during August 

 DISTEIB. : Western Himalaya from Kashmir to Kumaon, up to 7,000 

 ft. ; also in Bengal, and found as a weed in the Bot. Gard. Cal- 

 cutta, extending to Burma and to W. and S. India. 



9. H. dlphylla, Dalz. in HcoL Journ. Bot. ii (1850), 262 ; 

 F. B. I. vi, 151 ; Pram Beng. PL 1033 ; Duthie Ann. R. Bot. Gard. 

 Calc. ix, part 2, 185, t. 137 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 722. 



Tuber* small, elongate or globose. Leaves radical, usually two, 1-2 in. 

 in diam. ; orbicular cordate, margined, rather fleshy. Scape 4-10 in. 

 high, with a few distant lanceolate acuminate bracts. Flowers many, 

 distant, spreading, about | in. diam., white tinged \\ith green; floral 

 bract much shorter than the slender curved ovary. Sepals about } in. 

 long ; dorsal erect, ovate, concave, acute, obscurely nerved ; lateral 

 pair slightly longer, deflexed, obliquely ovate, acuminate, 3-nerved. 

 Petals linear, white, as long as the dorsal sepal and forming a hood 

 with it. Lip much longer than the sepals, 3-partite; segments 

 filiform, white with green tips, lateral pair spreading and with spirally 

 twisted tips ; midlobe shorter, deflexed. Spur shorter than the 

 ovary, inflated towards the acute inflated apex. Anther broad, the 

 cells distant ; tubes very short. Pbllinia dimidiate-ovate, obliquely 

 attached to caudicles equalling them in length ; glands very small, 

 flat, circular. Staminodes large, petaloid. Stigmatic processes 

 elongate, clavate, adnate to the mouth of the spur. Eostellum 

 obscure. 



Dehra Dun (Mackinnon). Flowers during Aug. DISTRIB. : Outer 

 ranges of W. Himalaya in Garhwal (Falconer) ; eastwards to Bengal 

 and Chota Nagpur, and southwards from Konkan and Kanara to 

 Malabar. 



10. H. Lawii, HL /. in F. B. I. vi, 162 ; Prain Beng. PL 1033 ; 

 Duthie Ann. E. Bot. Gard. Calc. ix, Part 2, 192, t. 143. Peristylus 

 Lawn Wight Ic. t. 1695 ; Coolce FL Bomb. ii. 712. 



Tubers ellipsoid or globose. Stem 6-12 in. high, slender, with a few 

 short loose sheaths below the leaves. Leaves 3-5, clustered above the 

 middle of the stem, 3-4 in. long, narrowly lanceolate or elliptic, acute, 

 membranous. Spike 2-3 in. long, slender, narrow, many-fid. Flowers 

 small, crowded, spreading, white tinged with yellow and green ; 

 floral bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the slender 

 curved ovary. Sepals and petals in. long, white tinged with yellow 

 at the base, connivent, obtuse ; dorsal' sepal elliptic^ concave ; lateral 

 subfalcately linear-oblong. Petals oblong, obtuse, fleshy. Lip aa 



