HABENARIA. : 817 
beakless, completely twisted ovary, бераз sub equal, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, connivent. 
Peials about as long but broader, triangular-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, falcate. 
Lip not fleshy, as long as the sepals and petals, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, entire ; 
spur much shorter than the lip (usually less than half as long), s ightly curved, stout, 
compressed from front to back. Column very short. Anther-cells short, broad, parallel, 
touching, without tubes; po:linia narrowly elliptic, grooved, without caudicles; the glands 
small, oblique, elliptic, situated far inside and placed near the margin of the two large 
conjoined stigmatic lobes above the mouth of the spur. Capsule sessile, erect, fusiform, 
'35 in. long. 
Sikkim, on Re-chi-la, elevation 9,000 feet; in flower during August; Pantling 
No. 341; also collected by Hooker, Clarke and King’s Collectors at Ling-too and 
Gun-tok at elevations of about 10,000 feet. 
The colour of the flowers is white. 
PraTE 416.— Habenaréa nematocaulon, Hook. fil. А plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 bract, ovary, 
and flower, side view, 2 apex of ovary and column, showing the anther-cells and the glands of the 
pollinia (p g), stigmas (s), 9 the petals, 4 lip, 5 section of spur, 6 pollinia; a enlarged. 
14. Навехавтл SrkkrwENsIS, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 155. 
Height of entire plant 10 to 12 inches. Stem short, bearing one or two rather 
wide blunt sheaths at the base, and two unequal, remote, narrowly elliptic-oblong 
sub-acute or acute leaves narrowed to the sheathing base, 2:5 to 4 in. long and °5 to 
195 in. broad, the upper the smaller of the two. Касете elongate, laxly-flowered. 
Flowers °5 in. across at the mouth; floral bract large, foliaceous, linear, acuminate, 
“5 to 9:5 in. long, the lower ones revolute and many times longer than the short 
pedicelled and abruptly-beaked ovary. Sepals unequal; the dorsal elongate-triangular, 
with a broad base and sub-acute apex; the lateral pair nearly twice as long, linear- 
lanceolate, acute, strongly revolute. Petals reflexed, as long as the lateral sepals, faleately 
lanceolate, cordate-acuminate, the apices rather blunt. Lip membranous, lanceolate, 
straight, caudate-acuminate, entire; spur much longer than the ovary, cylindric, boldly 
curved, the mouth infundibuliform, the apical half quadrate in section. Anther-cells 
pyriform, discrete, converging at the apex, their tubes long; pollinia elliptic, with 
blunt ends, vertically grooved, shorter than the compressed curved caudicles; the 
glands broadly ovate. Stigmas large, united above the mouth of the spur, bordered 
above by a narrow belt. Sfaminodes elongate, narrow, parallel to the tubes of the 
- anther-cells. : 
Sikkim, on Sinchal, elevation 8,000 feet; Thomson; Ling-too and Ze-lep.a. King's 
Collectors. Sin-ga-le-la, and in the Lachoong valley at elevations of about 12,000 fect; 
in flower during August and September; Pantling No. 421. 
The colour of the flowers is green. 
Prats 417.—Halenaria Sikkimensis, Hook. fil А plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 flower, 2 stalked 
ovary, column and lip, in profile, 3 sepals, petals and lip flattened out, 4 column showing the anthers 
with their tubes and polliniar glands, the united stigmas (s), staminodes, and the entrance to the spur, 
5 pollinia, 6 section of spur; ай enlarged. | 
