HABENARIA. 24741 | 911 
Sikkim, at Namgah, elevation 5,000 feet; in flower during August; Pantling 
No. 177. Westwards along the range to Simla, at elevations of 5,000 to 8,000 feet. 
Khasia Hills. ; ТТ” 
. Рглте 406.—Habenaria pectinata, Don. Parts of a plant, of natural size, Fig. 1 а flower, 2 apex 
of ovary and column, showing the stigmas (s), anther with its elongated processes, and the mouth of 
the spur (c), 3 the petals, 4 section of spur, 5 pollinia; all enlarged. 
4. HABENARIA ARIETINA, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 138. 
Habit and general appearance of ZH. pectinata, but the leaves much broader, 
narrowly elliptic, acute or shortly acuminate; the raceme 5 to 8 in. long. Sepals 
narrowly oblong-elliptic; the lateral pair sub-faleate, ciliolate. Petals much dilated at 
the base externally, bluntly acuminate, puberulous, erect and adpressed to the dorsal 
sepal. Lip as in. JT. pectinata, but the side lobes with fewer teeth; spur laterally 
compressed, much longer than the ovary; pollinia broader than in JJ. pectinata, and 
more distinctly grooved. Hook. fil. in Ann. Bot. Gard. Cale. V, 64, t. 97. H. pectinata, 
Lindl. (not of Wallich) Gen. and Spec. Orch. 311; Wall. Cat. 7029, B. (in part) 
and C. 
Sikkim, at Tumlong above Pemiongchi, Re-chi-la; at elevations of 6,000 to 9,000 
feet; in flower during July and August; Pantling No. 333. Westward along the range 
to Simla. Khasia Hills, at elevations from 5,000 to 6,000 feet. 
The flowers of this are green throughout. Аз in the caso of M. pectinata, specimens 
dry black, and the two species are so similar that Wallich issued both under the samo 
number (7029); while Lindley, in describing H. pectinata in his Genera and Species 
of Orchids, gave, as has been pointed out by Sir Joseph Hooker in his Flora of 
British India, Don's name pectinata to the wrong plant. Krüntzlin does not admit 
this as а species, but reduces it to JT. pectinata. с 
Pirate 407.—Habenaría arictina, Hook. fil. Part of a plant, of natura? size. Fig. 1 a flower, 
2 column showing the anthers, staminodes, and stigmas (s) З section of spur, 4 pollinia; a// enlarged. 
5. HaBENARIA ArrcHISONI, Reichb. fil. in Trans. Linn, Soc., Ser. 2, Bot. ІП, 114; Boiss. 
Fl. Orient. Suppl. 370, var. Josephi, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 152. 
Height of the whole plant about 5 in.; іше” large, irregularly ellipsoid, hairy. 
"Leaves ‘two, sessile, orbicular, cuspidate, opposite and rising about 1 in. from the base 
of the stem. Peduncle’ glandular-pubescent, longer than the stem or the raceme, 
ebracteate. Raceme 15 to 2 in. long, 4- to 6-flowered, the rachis glandular-pubescent. 
Flower “65 in. in diam.; floral bract linear-lanceolate, shorter than the slender-stalked 
glandulose ovary. Sepals sub-equal; the dorsal ovate, acute, forming а hood with | Shin 
broadly lanceolate acuminate petals; lateral sepals wide-spreading, acute. Lip divided 
to the base into three linear lobes, the middle one straight, the lateral pair longer and 
-with recurved tips; spur curved forward, clavate towards the apex, as long as the short 
curved. ovary. Column short, stout. Anther-cells parallel, separated from each other by 
an area with the mouth of the spur in the middle; pollinia globular-ovoid; tho 
