818 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
15. Hapenarra Dyertana, King and Pantling in Journ. As. Soc. Beng, 
Vol LXV, Pt. 2, 133. 
A slender plant not exceeding 12 inches in height. Stem at its base with a 
sheathing blunt oblanceolate bract 1 in. long. Leaves three or four, sessile, 1 to 1°75 in. 
long, scattered along the stem at distant intervals and becoming smaller upwards, the 
uppermost bract-like, all more or less oblong-lanceolate with sub-acute apices and broad 
sheathing bases. Spike 3 to 4 in. long, laxly-flowered. Flower (including the spur) “5 
to “біп. long; $éract foliaceous, diminishing upwards, ovate-lanceolate, as long ав or 
exceeding the sessile scabrid slenderly-beaked ovary. Dorsal sepa! ovate-lanceo'ate; the 
lateral pair narrowly oblong, blunt, reflexed. Petals erect, lanceolate, sub-acute, with 
very oblique bases, slightly undulate on their inner margins. Lip rather fleshy, convex, 
straight, deflexed, a little longer than the lateral sepals, narrowly oblong-triangular, 
with two small rounded auricles near its base, the margins in its lower half obscurely 
waved and with a short abrupt bend quite at the apex. Spur slender, incurved, equal 
to ог slightly longer than the ovary, slightly compressed laterally. Column short and 
broad, -Andher-cei:s distant, clavate, their tubes rather long and curved inwards; pollinia 
ovoid; their caudicles long, slender; the glands small, discoid; s/aminodes large, smooth, 
cylindric, situated vertically by the outer sides of the anther-cells. Stigmas conjoined 
into a transversely oblong broad band lying above the entrance to the spur and 
between the glands of the pollinia, the upper margin of the conjoined stigmas bordered 
by a narrow band. 
Sikkim, in the Lachen valley, elevation 11,000 feet; in flower during August; 
Pantling No. 407. 
The colour of the flowers is green. 
A very distinct species belonging to the section H»loglossa. The floral bracts are 
leaf-like and gradually decrease in size upwards. The size aud position of the very large 
stigma stretching across the wide column almost to its edges, and situated above the 
opening of the spur, are good distinguishing marks of this species. 1% is dedicated. to 
Mr. W.. T. Thiselton-Dyer, F.R.S, C.M.G., C.LE., Director of the Royal Garden, 
Kew. 
Prate 418.— Habenaria Dyeriana, King and Pantling. А plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 bract, ovary 
and flower, 2 column showing the anther-cells and the glands of the pollinia (pg), the staminodes (0), 
the conjoined stigmas (з), and the mouth of the spur (c), 9 bract, ovary and spur, im profile, 4 the 
petals and lip, separated and spread out, 5 section of spur, 6 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
16. HABENARIA Brermanntana, King and Pantling in Journ. Ав. Soc. Beng., 
~ VoL LXIV, Pt 2, 349. 
Height of plant 9 to 15 in.; tubers cylindric-ovoid, 1:25 in. long, sparsely hairy. 
Stem rather stout, with one or two wide-mouthed sheaths near the base. Leaves four or 
five, cauline, scattered, amplexicaul, lanceolate, acute, boldly nerved, 2 to 3 in. long; 
stem above the leaves with a lanceolate bract. Spike 4 in. long, rather sparsely-flowered ; 
bract linear-lanceolate, acuminate, exceeding the sessile and scarcely beaked ovary. 
Flowers `8 in. long. Sepals and petals sub-equal; sepals ovate-lanceolate, with oblique 
bases, concave, sub-acute, cohering and, with the triangular-lanceolate petals, forming 
a hood from the.base of which the lip and spur project. Lip fleshy, much decurved, 
linear-oblong, tapering slightly to the obtuse apex, with minute and. tooth-like side lobes; 
