216 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
impossible to remove from flowers preserved in fluid the pollinia intact. No description 
of them is therefore given. 
Рглте 414.—Habenaria juncea, King and Pantling. A plant, of natural sise. Fig 1 bract, ovary 
and flower, 2 apex of ovary and column, showing the over-arching summit of the latter, the anther- 
cells (а c), staminodes (5), and conjoined stigmas (s), 3 the petals, 4 lip, 5 section of spur; 
ай enlarged. à 
19. HABENARIA URCEOLATA, Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXV, 73, t. 30. 
Whole plant 2 to 6 in. high; the tubers narrowly oblong. Stem slender, curved, 
with a single sheath at the base. Leaf usually solitary, rising rather below the middle 
of the stem, narrowly elliptic-oblong, obtuse or sub-acute, tapering to the long narrow 
tubular sheath; length 1:25 to 3:5 in., breadth :25 to ‘85 in.; peduncle of the raceme 
with several remote bracts, sometimes one of them leaf-like. Raceme *65 to 2 in. long, 
decurved, rather laxly-flowered, secund. Flowers narrowly campanulate, longer than the 
ovaries (3 in. long); floral bract linear-lanceolate, erect, longer than the shortly-staiked 
tumid ovary. Sepals sub-equal, all erect, not spreading; the dorsal elliptic, blunt, not 
connivent with the petals; the lateral pair oblong, sub-acute. Petals as long as the 
sepals, free, oblong, blunt, tapering slightly to the base, somewhat falcate. Zip about 
as long as the petals and sepals, decurved beyond the middle, oblong, slightly concave, 
minutely hispid near the base, tapering and becoming thicker towards the blunt apex; 
spur shorter than the sepals, narrowiy ellipsoid, constricted near the neck. Column 
elongate, the apex pointed. Anther-cells close together but not touching, long, parallel; 
pollinia ellipsoid, each consisting of a pair of flattened masses ‘composed of large 
granules, the caudicles very short; the glands elliptic, acute at one end; staminodes 
long, filiform, lying parallel to the anther-cells and exceeding them in length, their 
apices free. Stigmas conjoined, large, occupying the whole of the anterior surface of 
the column below the glands of the pollinia. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 165. Diphylax 
urceolata, Hook. fil. Ic. Plantar., t. 1865. | 
Sikkim, at Yak-la, elevation 10,000 feet, Clarke. At Naoura, on the Nepal frontier, 
elevation 12,000 feet, King's Collectors, Cho-la; G. Gammie, No. 1294. Chumbi; King’s 
Collectors. Ti-am-phung and Re-chi-la, 9,000 feet; Pantling No. 347. 
The flowers are white. : 
Puate 415.— Habenaria urceolata, Clarke. An entire plant, of natural siz? Fig. 1 bract, ovary and 
flower, 2 apex of ovary, part of spur and column, showing the anther-cells, polliniar glands (g), 
s'aminodes (a), and stigma (s), 2 ovary, spur and base of flower, side view, 4 the petals, 5 lip, 
G section of spur, 7 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
13. HABENARIA NEMATOCAULON, Hook. fiL Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 154, 
Whole plant 2:5 to 9 in. high; tuber narrowly oblong, obtuse. Stem slender, 
with a short tubular sheath “5 in. long at the base, and not far above it a single 
elliptic leaf with a blunt or sub-acute apex and narrowed shortly sheathing base, 
"75 to 1°75 in. long and °25 to °75 in. broad ; the stem above the leaf long, and 
bearing one to three linear-lanceolate bracts diminishing upwards from ‘5 to :25 in. 
iu length. Spike *5 to 1% in. long, slender, rather densely-flowered. Flowers small, 
about “15 in. across; floral bract linear, obtuse, longer than the erect, cylindric, 
