. HABENARIA. 921 
Sikkim, in the Lachen valley, elevation about 10,000 to 12,000 feet; at Na-toot, 
Na-tong and Jongri; in flower from July to September; Pantling No. 398. 
The colour of the flowers is green. 
Prate 422.—Habenaria oligantha, Hook. fil. А plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 bract, ovary and 
flower, side view, 2 column, showing the anther-cells, polliniar glands, staminodes, and stigmas (s) at 
the entrance to the spur, 3 lip, 4 the petals, 5 section of spur at its thickest part, 6 pollinia; ай 
enlarged. 
20. HABENARIA LATILABRIS, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 153. 
Height of whole plant 8 to 18 in. high; tubers fusiform. Stem naked near the 
base. Leaves about five; the middle two 2 to 4 in. long, elliptic-oblong, acute; the 
lower and upper smaller and more acute; all broad and sheathing at the base; bract 
below the raceme lanceolate, acuminate, nearly 1 in. long. Spike 3 to 10 in. long, 
laxly-flowered, its peduncle short. Flowers 4 to *5 in. across; floral bract lanceolate, 
acuminate, somewhat longer than the ovary. Sepals unequal, glabrous or ciliolate; the 
dorsal concave, broadly ovate, orbicular or oblong; the lateral pair narrower, ovate 
or ovate-lanceolate, sub-acute, reflexed. Petals as long as the lateral sepals, spreading, 
fleshy, with broad triangular bases and bluntly acuminate apices, varying to lanceolate 
or linear, gibbous at the base on one side. Lip longer than the petals, sub-terete or 
linear-oblong, tapering slightly to the apex, entire, the base with a short broad claw; 
the spur slender, cylindric, laterally compressed, curved, longer than the curved slightly 
beaked ovary. Column short. Anther-cells parallel, distant, each with a sub-globular 
rugulose staminode on its outer side near the base; the tubes short, curved forwards; 
pollinia pyriform, tapering into short stout caudicles; the glands small, elliptic. Stigmas 
two, oblong, blunt, separated by the entrance into the spur. Capsule sessile, fusiform, 
shortly beaked, curved. Hook. fil. in Ann. Bot. Gard. Cale. V, 66, t. 100. Platanthera 
acuminata, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. No. 7040; Gen. and Spec. Orchid, 289. P. latilabris, 
Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orch., 289. Р. orchidis, Wall. Cat. 7039B. 
Sikkim, in the Lachoong and Lachen valleys; on the Sin-ga-le-la range at elevations 
of 8,000 to 10,000 feet; in flower from July to September, common; Pantling No. 331. 
Westward along the chain to Kashmir. In Dehra Dun; King, Hope. 
The sepals of this plant in Sikkim are green, as is the bract; and the petals and 
lip are of a greenish-yellow. The species is a very common and variable one. In the 
north-west Himalaya the leaves are occasionally almost orbicular; the lip varies in 
width from linear to lanceolate but its edges are always reflexed. A small form is 
common in Sikkim. 
Рглте 423.—Habenaria latilabris, Hook. fil. А plant, of natural sise. Fig 1 ovary, bract and flower, 
scen from the side, 2 column showing the anthers and staminodes, polliniar glands, stigmas (s), and 
entrance to spur, 3 lip, 4 the petals, 5 section of spur, б pollinia; all enlarged. 
91. HABENARIA Cumminstana, King and Pantling in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., 
Vol. LXIV, Pt. 2, 343. 
Height of plant 6 to 9 in.; tubers oblong. Leaves two to four, unequal, inserted on 
the lower part of the stem, with a lanceolate bract a little below the spike, broadly 
Axx. Вот. Рот. Garn., Catcurra, Vor. VIII. 
