314 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-H!MALAYA. 
caudicles long, straight, triquetrous, dilated at the apex and each ending below in a 
minute ovate gland. Stigmas two, elliptic-globose, lying close together above the 
entrance to the spur. Krüntzlin in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XVI, 168. 
Sikkim, at elevations of about 5,000 or 6,000 feet; in flower during August and 
September; King, Pantling No. 182. Khasia Hills at 5,000 feet; Lobb, Hooker filius 
and Thomson. 
The flowers are pale green. 
Prare 4ll.—ZHabenaria malleifera, Hook. fil. Parts of an entire plant; of natural size. Fig. 1, floral 
bract, ovary and flower, the stigmas (s), 2 the petals, 3 upper part and beak of ovary, column with the 
anthers, the lip and its spur, i» profile, 4 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
9. HABENARIA STENANTHa, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 153. 
Height of plant 129 to 24 in. with no tuber, but the roots thick and fleshy. 
Stem stout and sheathed at the base. Leaves about three or four, the lowest usually 
the largest, 4 to 9 in. long, oblong-lanceolate to oblongoblanceolate, acute or sub- 
acute, very little narrowed to the long sheathing base; the upper part of the stem 
with narrowly lanceolate acuminate bracts “4 to ‘75 in. long, diminishing upwards. 
Spike 5 to 9 in. long, laxly-flowered. Flowers “65 to :8 in. across; floral bract linear- 
lanceolate, as long as the shortly-stalked ovary in the lower flowers, but shorter in 
the upper. Sepals unequal; the dorsal concave, broadly ovate, blunt, erect; the 
lateral pair smaller, ovate-elliptic, sub-acute, reflexed, all 3-nerved. Petals longer than 
the dorsal sepal, linear, blunt, 1-пегуей, erect. 
Lip longer than the sepals, lanceolate, 
blunt, entire, 3-nerved; 
spur slender, cylindric, widening a little towards the tip, 
curving, longer than the rather straight slender beakless ovary. -Anther-cells converging 
at the apex; the staminodes elongate; anther-tubes попе; pollinia broadly elliptic-clavate, 
faintly grooved, their caudicles rather short; the glands very large, elongate, situated 
at the sides of the entrance to the spur and reaching to the stigma. Stigmas con- 
joined into a small transversely-oblong mass situated on the upper margin of the 
entrance to the spur. 
Sikkim, at elevations from 8,000 to 12,000 feet; Hooker, Thomson, Clarke, Gammie 
and others; in flower from July to September; Pantling No. 233. Chumbi (in Tibet), 
King’s Сайын, 
The sepals and petals of this are green and the lip is ы It closely 
resembles H. latilabris, but has differently shaped erect petals and a very different. 
column, the stigma being single and transverse. Тһе staminodes, too, differ in shape 
from those of H. latilabris, and the gland very notably so. 
Рглте 412.—Habenaria stenantha, Hook. fl. А plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 sepals and petals, 
separated, 2 ovary and flower, seen from the side, 8 lip, 4 column showing the anther-cells and 
staminodes, glands of the pollinia (p g) and stigma (s), 5 pollinia; ай pm 
10. HABENARIA Baxertana, King and Pantling in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., 
Vol LXV, Pt. 2, 132. 
Height of the whole plant 9 to 18 inehos Bin about *25 in. thick at the 
base, and with one or more sub-acute convolute sheaths, Leaves several, scattered, 
