300 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM.HIMALAYA. 
Br. Ind. VI, 115. Rhamphidia rubens, Lind. in Journ. Linn. Soc. I, 182. Cerochilus 
rubens, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1854, 87. Goodyera No. 4, Griff. Notul. IIT, 390. 
Sikkim, at elevations of from 1,500 to 3,000 feet, common; in flower during 
January and February; Pantling No. 202. Assam; С. Mann. Chittagong; Lister. 
Burma; Griffith (Kew Distrib. Nos, 5341 and 5342). 
The sepals and petals are green tipped with pink, the lip green tipped with 
white, and the column yellowish-pink. The ovaries are of a dull dark purple, and the 
floral bracts of a pale bright purple or red. The leaves are green. 
Prats 899.—Heteria rubens, Benth. А plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 floral bract, ovary and flower, 
2 floral bract, ovary and column, showing the anther (a), stigma (s), and lip (/), 3 lip, 4 apex of 
column showing the polliniar gland (pg) and stigma (s) 5 pollinia, 6 a part of the peduncle showing 
the glandular hairs; all enlarged. : 
Tribe VI.—OPHRYDEAE. 
Anther-cells sessile on the column, anticous ог posticous, discrete or contiguous, but 
always distinct, parallel or diverging, often with tubes from their bases, each with a 
staminode on its outer surface; pollinia two, rarely four, usually with caudicles and 
always with glands; the glands naked or enclosed in the same pouch or in two distinct 
pouches. $йутаз two, distinct or conjoined below the anther-cells; pollen granular or 
sectile, not waxy. | 
Anther-cells anticous, lip with a single spur. 
Flowers in spikes or racemes, small or mediocre; the sepals larger 
than the petals. 
Lip with a long spur. 
Flowers pink or purple, sometimes white; anther-cells 
without tubes; polliniar glands often in a pouch. . . 86. Orchis. 
Flowers green or yellowish-green, rarely white; anther- 
cells often with long tubes; S к naked 
(except in Н. pseudophrys) | : 87. Habenaria. 
Lip with no spur or with a very e siot S 
orbieular spur; flowers green; anther-cells with long tubes; 
poliniar glands naked . 005 5. 88. Herminium. 
Flowers solitary, large; the sepals "malle фла the PRA . « . 69. Diplomeris. 
Anther-cells posticous or sub-anticous; lip with two spurs . . . . . 90. Satyrium. 
86. Orchis, Linn. 
Terrestrial erect leafy herbs with oblong or digitately lobed tubers, or with fleshy 
fibrous roots. Leaves sheathing, not plicate. Flowers medium-sized, usually pink or. 
purple, rarely white, not green, in spikes or racemes; the floral bract small, or foliaceous 
and exceeding the flower. Sepals sub-equal, the dorsal conniving to form a hood with 
the petals, the lateral pair spreading. Petals like the sepals or smaller. Тір adnate to 
the base of the column, spreading or pendulous, entire or 3-lobed, rarely 4- or 5-lobed, 
always spurred. Column very short. Anther-cells two, anticous, parallel, contiguous, 
without tubes; cue usually attached to caudicles; glands two, distinct or united, 
