Plants of the Punjab. 



495 



Herbs, Unbranched, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves, 



Petals united. 

 Stamens none. 



Habenaria 

 galeandra, 



Orchidace^. 



F. B. I. vi. 163. 



Himalaya, 



6-7,000 "ft. 



Simla, 



on grassy sunny 



slopes fColl(>tt)'. 



Habenaria Griffithii 

 or decipiens, 

 Orchidace^. 

 F. B. I. vi. 165. 

 Lalinl, 4-5,000 ft. 

 (Thomson). 

 Kurram Valley 

 (Aitchison). 



Hemipilia cordifolia, 



Orchidace^. 

 F. B. I. vi. 167. 

 Himalaya, 

 east of the Sutlej, 

 5-7,000 ft. 

 Simla, Mashobra, 

 Mahasn, on rocks 



(Collett). 



Satyrium nepalense, 



Orchii)ACK/i:. 

 F. B. I. vi. 168. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-6,000 ft. 



Q 



Imla (Collett). 



Kashmir, 



Anther one. 



small, perennial, smooth or almost' so, tubers round 

 or oblong, small, stem 6-10 in., slender, leafy ; leaves 1-2 

 in., ol)long, blunt or nearly short-pointed, sessile, base con- 

 tracted, bracts ovate, lower much longer than the flowers, 

 upper shorter ; flowers | in. diam., purple, in a spike, 2-4 

 in. long, dorsal sepal narrowly lanceolate, erect, lateral 

 as long, lanceolate, curved, long-pointed, spreading, petals 

 shorter, lanceolate, curved, blunt, lip broadly triangular, 

 spreading, or the sides recurved, base shortly stalked, 

 terminal margin notched, spur conical, hollov/, short, blunt, 

 stigma below the anther on the column. 



small, perennial, tube, small, oblong, stem 5-8 in., 

 slender, erect, or zig-zag, loosely leafy ; leaves 1-2| in., 

 linear-oblong, short-pointed or blunt, thin, lower almost 

 stalked, upper sessile, base sheathing ; flowers ^ in. diam., 

 crowded, braes ovale-lanceolate, thin, longer than the 

 ovary, sep;ds l-l in., dorsal ovate-lanceolate, blunt, 

 lateral linear-oblong, tip rounded, petals as long as the 

 sepals, narrowly lanceolate, lip as long as the sepals, nar- 

 rowed upwards, terminal, teeth short-pointed, middle 

 one longest. 



small, perennial, smooth, tuber oblong ; leaf one, 

 2-4 in., stem-clasping, ovate-heart-shaped, radical, broad, 

 net-veined, dotted with purple ; flowers |-| in. diam., 

 pink-purple, in a few- or many-flowered terminal raceme, 

 4-10 in. long, bracts shorter than the ovary, dorsal sepal 

 oblong, blunt, lateral oblong curved, petals almost short- 

 pointed, erect, nearl^^ forming a hood, lip ovate-oblong, 

 3-lobed, side lobes rounded, mid-lobe almost round-toothed, 

 broad, spur curved, shorter than the ovary, tip 2-lobed, 

 upturned, column very short, prolonged upwards in a broad, 

 thin process, folded in the middle, projecting from between 

 the anther cells, stigma on the column below the anther. 



small to medium size, perennial, root tuberous, stem 

 5-24 in., stout, shea hod ; loaves 4-10 by 2-4 in., few, ob- 

 long to linear-oblong, fleshy, sessile, base sheathing ; 

 flowers |- 1 in., pink, fragrant, crowded in a spike, 1-6 in, 

 long, bracts tinged with pink, larger than the flowers, 

 oblong or lanceolate, sepals narrowly oblong, lateral ones 

 spreading, upper one recurved, petals smaller than the 



