312 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA, 
caudicles short, rather stout; the glands large, thick, diseoid, lying close under the 
mouth of the spur; staminodes elongate, lying at the side of the anther. Stigmas 
united below the mouth of the spur, obovoid with a bifid apex; infertile stigma 
forming a thickened rim above the mouth of the spur. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 152; 
Krintzlin in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XVI, 154. H. brachyphylla, Aitch. and Hemsl. m Journ. 
Шап. Soc. XIX, 118 (not of .Krünizln) Н. Josephi, Reichb. fil in Trans. Linn, 
Soc. 1. с. 114. 
Sikkim, in the Lachen Valley, at elevations of 10,000 to 11,000 feet; in flower 
during July; Pantling No. 398. Westward to Kashmir, at rather liwi elevations. Also 
in Affghanistan, Kuram Valley. 
The colour of the flowers is greenish. 
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Prats 408.— Habenaria Aitchisoni, Reichb. fil, var. Josephi, Hook. fil. A plant, of natural size. 
Fig. 1 a flower with part of its ovary, 2 floral bract, ovary, column and lip with its spur, in 
profile, 3 the petals, 4 section of spur near the tip, 5 front view of the column, showing the base 
of the lip, the conjoined stigmas (s), the staminodes (0), the glands of the pollinia (р g), and the 
mouth of the spur (c), 6 front and side views of pollinia and their appendages; all enlarged. 
6. HABENARIA ARISTATA, Hook. fil Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 158. 
+ ` Whole plant 12 to 20 in. high, tubers oblong. Stem very slender, with many 
clasping blunt sheaths in its lower fourth, its next fourth leafy and the upper half 
bracteate. Leaves three to five, unequal, the middle ones the largest, elliptic-lanceolate, 
acute, slightly narrowed to the shortly-sheathed base; length 2 to 4 in., breadth 
:9 to ‘75 in.; bracts tubular, lanceolate, acute, diminishing in size upwards, 1:5 
to “5 in. long. Spike narrow, 2 to 8 in. long, many- but laxly-flowered. Flowers 
about `5 in. in diam. at the mouth; floral bract broadly lanceolate, acuminate, as 
long as the erect sessile shortly-beaked ovary. Sepals sub-equal, linear, obtuse; the 
lateral pair turned upwards and slightly spreading. Petals conniving with the dorsal 
sepal to form a hood, falcately ovate-lanceolate, sub-acute, their bases oblique. Lip 
slightly longer than the sepals, hastately tripartite; the middle segment linear, obtuse, 
shorter than the filiform lateral horizontally spreading lobes; spur variable, shorter 
than the sepals and much shorter than the ovary, clavate or fusiform, curved. 
Column very short, depressed. Anther-cells small, parallel, tubes none; pollinia small, 
obovoid, longer than the oblique caudicles; gland sub-rotund, minute. Stigmas two, 
narrowly oblong, situate at the sides of the mouth of the spur; s/aminodes on 
the ridges above the stigmas. Capsule fusiform. Peristylus aristatus, Lindl. Gen. and 
Spec. Orch. 300; Thwaites’ Enum. Pl. Ceyl. 310 (in part, егесі. syn.). Р. exilis, Wight 
4e, 1. 1095. 
Sikkim, at Labba, Choongthang, бо and Pashating; elevations 6,000 to T 000 
feet; in flower during August; Pantling No. 176. Khasia Hills, at elevations of 4, 000 
to 9,000 feet; Hooker and Thomson. Ceylon, at Newera Elia, elevation 6,000 feet ; 
Thwaites. 3 
The colour is green throughout. 
: “Piste 409. Haleheria анин, Hook. Sh A plant, of natural size. Fig. 1, floral bract, ovary and 
flower, 2 column showing the back of the anther and the stigmas -— 5 the petals, 4 4 section of the 
‘spur, 5 pollinia; eJ enlarged. ` E 3 
