:228 ORCHIDACE&. [HABBNARIA. 



long as the sepals, broadly and obtusely 3-fid.; lobes rounded at the 

 apex ; midlobe twice as long as the lateral pair, its claw green 

 tinged with yellow, and with a short ciliate ridge at its base. 

 Spur small, globular, dark -green. Anther-cells parallel, tubes none. 

 Pollinia obovate ; caudicles nearly as long, attached to minute 

 globular glands. Staminodes large, green, with broad white margins. 

 Stigmatic processes short, clavate. Rostdlum short, triangular, 

 acute. 



Dehra Dun (Mackinnon, Duthie). Flowers during July and August. 

 DISTRIB. : W. Himalaya, in Garhwal (Herb. Calc.) ; Bengal and Bi- 

 har ; C. Prov., in the Chanda district, and extending to S. India from 

 the Konkan. 



11. H. goodyeroides, Don Prod. Fl. Nep. 25 ; F. B. I. vi, 161 



(in part) ; K. & P. Ann. R. Bot. Gard.Calc. viii, 326, t. 430 ; Duthie 

 id. ix 9 part 2, 192 ; Collett FL Siml. 505 ; Prain Beng. PL 1039 

 "Peristylus goodyeroides, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 299. 



Tubers ellipsoid or ovoid, hairy. Stem stout, 1-2 ft. high, its lower 

 portion clothed with many loose blunt sheaths. Leaves clus- 

 tered above the middle of the stem, but not in whorls, 6-10 in. 

 long, ovate or ovate-elliptic, acute, narrowed to the shortly sheathed 

 base. Spike 4-8 in. densely flowered, its peduncle bearing a few 

 lanceolate acuminate bracts. Flowers subsecund, white, fragrant, 

 about i in. across ; floral bracts narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, about 

 as long as the slender curved ovary. Sepals unequal, tinged with 

 brown the dorsal one broadly ovate-lanceolate, concave, conniving 

 with the petals and forming a hood ; lateral pair oblong, 

 involute, apiculate. Petals as long as sepals, trapeziform, blunt. 

 Lip longer than the petals, 3-lobed ; side lobes linear-oblong 

 falcate, acute, slightly longer than the broad blunt midlobe, Spur 

 minute, subglobose, much shorter than the sepals. Column short, 

 broad. Anther-cells parallel, not contiguous, tube none. Pollinia 

 pyriform, caudicles very short, the glands small, obovoid. Stami- 

 nodes large, oblong, spreading, Stigmatic processes short, lying be- 

 neath and parallel to the staminodes. t 



'Dehra Dun (Mackinnon). Flowers during July and August. DrsTRiB, ; 

 Outer Himalayan ranges from Garhwal to Sikkim and Bhutan.; also 

 in Assam, Khasia Hills and south to Bengal, extending to China. 



12. H. constricta, Hook. f. in F. B. I. vi, 161 ; K. &. P. Ann. 

 R. Bot, Gard. Calc. viii, 325, t. 429; Duthie id. ix 9 part 2, 193 ; Prain 



.Beng. PL 1033. H. goodyeroides, Lindl in Wall. Cat. 7066 



