Plants of the Punjab. 



429 



Herbs, Unbranched, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals united. 

 Stamens none. 



Habenaria 

 Aitchisoni, 



ORCHIDACEiE. 

 F. B.I. vi. 152. 



Himalaya, 

 7-9,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Habenaria latilabris 

 or Edgeworthii, 



Habenaria densa, 



Habenaria 

 goo dyero ides, 



Habenaria 

 Elizabethse, 



Habenaria galeandra, 



Habenaria deeipiens, 



Anther one. 



small to medium size, perennial, stem sometimes 

 as thick as a goose-quill, sheaths few, small ; leaves 1-3 in., 

 circular, tipped with a rigid point, not margined, inserted 

 above the base of the stem ; flowers | in. diam., greenish, 

 on a dense-flowered spike, bracts half as long as the ovary, 

 J in., short- or long-pointed, sepals nearly equal, oblong- 

 ovate, blunt, lateral spreading, dorsal erect, petals as long, 

 ovate-lanceolate, lip as long as the sepals, divided to the 

 base, side lobes longest, spreading, recurved, spur shorter 

 than the short curved ovary, clubbed, stigmatic arms large, 

 clubbed. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 

 see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Stamen one. 



Curcuma 

 angustifolia. 

 East Indian 

 Arrowroot, 



Tikhur. 

 Scitamine^. 

 F. B. I. vi. 210. 

 Valleys below Simla, 

 4,000 ft. 

 (Collett). 



medium size, perennial, rootstock round, stemless ; 

 leaves stalk 6 in., blade 6-12 by 2-3 in., lanceolate ; flowers 

 ^ in., yellow, crowded, several in the axil of each bract, 

 opening in succession, quickly fading, in stalked spikes 

 3-6 in. long, crowded by several enlarged, empty, pink 

 bracts, lower bracts green, ovate, calyx short, 3-toothed, 

 corolla tube | in., upper lobe erect, concave, ovate, 2 

 lateral lobes shorter, oblong, within the corolla 3-petal- 

 like segments or staminodes, 2 lateral erect, the lower 

 broader, spreading and usually lobed, stamen inserted on 

 the mouth of the corolla tube, anther linear-oblong, curved, 



