302° ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
straight, vertical, cylindric, tapering slightly to the tip. Pollinia pyriform; the caudicles 
short, tapering; the glands elliptic, lying concealed in the rostellar pouch, or naked, 
(the. rostellar pouch being rudimentary). Staminodes rather small, rugulose, broadly 
elliptic, lying opposite the bases of the anther-cells. Séigmas distinct, elliptic, widened 
at the lower end attached to the margins of the column interior to the staminodes. 
Hook. fil. Ic. Plantar., t. 2197A; Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 127. Gymnadenia spathulata, Lindl. 
Gen. and Spes. Orch. 280. 
Sikkim, at Gnatong, elevation 11,000 feet; on the Sin-ga-le-la range, elevation 12, 000 
feet; in flower during July; Pantling Nos. 327 and 382. Lachung; Hooker, G. Gammie, 
Nos. 210, 776. Chumbi; King’s Collectors. Gharwal-Himalaya ; ‘Duthie Nos. 194 and 
515. | 
In this: species the stigmas (unlike those of typical Orchis) are distinct and situate 
on the margins -of the column, thus affording a connecting link with Habenaria in 
waich distinct stigmas are common. 
The colour of the flowers is white or purple. In some “specimens the көшіне 
glands are covered by the single rostellar pouch characteristic of the genus Orchis; but 
in a large proportion of spscimens the glands are practically naked, the rostellar pouch 
being quite rudimentary and lying behind and beneath the glands. 
Puare 400 .—Orchis spathulata, Reichb. fl. А plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 bract, ovary and’ 
flower, 2 ovary, column and lip, i» profile, З lip, 4 the petals, 5 and 6 two views of the 
column—fig. 5 showing the lateral stigmas (з), the polliniar glands (p 0) naked, (the rostella being 
very small, rudimentary, and lying below and behind the glands and not covering them in front); 
fig. 6 showing the polliniar glands in a single rostellar pouch (ғ), the lateral stigmas (з), and one of 
the staminodes (s m); the base of the lip (/) is also shown—7 pollinia; all enlarged. 
9.. ORCHIS HaBENARIOIDES, King апа: Pantling. 
Height of entire plant 12 to 20 inches. Stems clothed at the base with unequal 
tubular sub-acute wide-mouthed sheaths, tuber digitate. Leaves four or five, scattered 
along the stem, sessile, elliptic-oblong to linear-obloag, sub-aeute, slightly narrowed to the 
rather long sheath; length 2 to 5 in., breadth ‘75 to 1:25 in.; stem above the leaves 
short and bearing two or three lanceolate spreading. bracts. Spike l'ó to 2°5 in. long, 
densely-flowered, cylindric. Flowers "95 in. across; floral bract herbaceous, lanceolate, 
aeuminàte, longer than the shortly-beaked curved ovary. Sepals’ sub-equal, puberulous, 
broadly ovate; the dorsal forming a hood with the petals; the lateral pair spreading, 
their apices йй and somewhat reflexed. Petals nearly as long as the sepals, obliquely 
ovate-rotund, cut away near the broad base at the inner side, the apex minutely 
apiculate. Zip broadly oblong, the base truncate and adnate fo the base of the column, 
the apex broad with a very shallow central lobe, the upper surface quite smooth ; spur. 
as long as the ovary, curved, slightly clavate, laterally compressed, puberulous inside. 
Column short, broad. -Anther-cells parallel, not far distant from each other; pollinia broadly: 
elliptie, somewhat oblique, very obtuse at the арэх; the caudicles short, stout, tapering, 
without pouches; glands oblong, the free ends truncate, the lower attached {о the caudicle. 
and embedded in the stigma.  S/aminodes large, sub-orbicular; rugulose, lying at the sides 
of the caudicles. Stigmas conjomed into a narrow band running beneath the orifice 
of the spur transversely from side to side of the column, and becoming wider opposite 
