490 



Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Unbeanched, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves 



Petals united. 



Orchis latifolia, 

 Marsh orchis, 



Salaj), salah. 

 Orchidace^. 

 F. B. I. vi. 127. 

 Himalaya, 

 8-12,000 ft. 

 Hattu, on wet 

 ground (Collett). 

 Kadrala, Kashmir. 



Stamens none. 



Anther one. 



medium size to large, perennial, smooth, root tuberous, 

 flattened, divided into 2 or 3 lobes; stem 12-36 in., stout, 

 hollow, leafy or bearing below sheathing scales ; leaves 

 2-6 in., oblong lanceolate, blunt, base sheathing; flowers 

 f in. long, dull pur2)]e, crowded, lip spotted, on a cjdindric 

 crowded spike 1-6 in. long, bracts gi'een, narrowly lance- 

 olate, lower much longer than the flowers, upper slightly 

 so or shorter, sepals and petals nearly equal, lateral sepals 

 spreading, dorsal one with the petals forming a hood over 

 the very short column, lip joined to the column, turned 

 down, round, almost 3-lobed, margins minutely toothed, 

 spur straight, cylindric, nearly equal to the ovary, anther 

 united to the column, cells separating, lobes 2, united to 

 2 round stick}^ glands above the broad i^-lobed stigma. 

 Salap in the bazaars is imported ; the drug is much 

 esteemed by Indians as a nervine tonic and aphrodisiac. 



Herminium 

 monorchis, 

 Musk orchis, 



Orchidace^. 

 F. B. I. vi. 128. 

 Himalaya, 

 10-13,050 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



small, perennial, root of an oblong tuber, undivided ; 

 leaves 2, rarely 3, 1-4 in., linear-oblong, flower stalk naked, 

 rarely 2-leaves or 1 -sheathed ; flowers | in. diam., yellow- 

 green, musk}^ at night, curved down, nearly all on one side 

 of the spike, 1-2 in., bracts equalling or shorter than the 

 ovary, sepals and petals almost forming a hood, sepals 

 oblong, blunt, petals unequal-sided towards the base, tips 

 fleshy, ovate, hardly longer than the sepals, spur none, 

 lip hardly longer than the sepals, 3-lobed, lobes narrow, 

 base concave, column very short, stigma 2-lobed, anther 

 joined to the face of the column, cells 2, attached to 2 

 round sticky glands ; in young flowers these are hidden in 

 a minute shiny brown pouch. 



Herminium 

 angustifolium, 



Orchidace^. 

 F. B. I. vi. 129. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-8,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett), 



medium size to large, stout or slender, root of 2 small 

 ovoid tubers, stem 12-28 in., slender, leafy, leaves 4-8 in., 

 few, linear, short-pointed, sheathing, flowers I in. long, 

 green in crowded spike 2-10 in. long, bracts equal to the 

 ovary, sepal-; oblong, blunt, petals I'near, thin, short 

 pointed, lip linear, equal to or longer than the ; epals, narrow, 

 trifid beyond the middle, side-lobes thr* ad-like, mid-lobe 

 very short, capsule I in., oblong, swollen ; for other cha- 

 racters see the last species. 



