322 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
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elliptic to lahceolate, rather thick, 2 to 3 in. long and 1 to 15 in. broad. Peduncle 
of the spike angled. Spike 1:25 to З іп. long, rather densely-flowered; bracé longer 
than the slender beaked ovary, its edges ciliolate. Flowers “75 in: across. Dorsal sepal 
ovate, “95 in. long; the lateral pair narrower, wide-spreading, their edges ciliolate, 
“4 in. long. Petals fleshy, slightly exceeding the dorsal sepal and with it forming a hood, 
triangular, blunt, sub-faleate, the inner edge irregularly crenate near the base, the outer 
edge entire, the apex sub-acute, the base truncate. Jip very fleshy, without side lobes, 
longer than the lateral sepals, almost cylindric, abruptly deflexed from the thin flattened 
base (? claw), the surface of the cylindric part slightly carunculate; spur slender, 
curved, longer than the ovary, slightly compressed laterally, pubescent inside. Column 
very short; anther-cells distant, the space between them wide, smooth; pollinia cylindric, 
slightly clavate, rather longer than their stout ‘caudicles and attached to them nearly at 
a right angle; glands small, sub-rotund. Stigmas two, large, parallel, oblong, situate 
` below and by the side of the entrance to the spur, tapering at their upper ends; the 
edges of the stigmas and half the mouth of the spur margined by a distinct fleshy belt. 
Sikkim, at Gnatong, elevation 11,000 feet; in flower during July; Cummins; 
Lachoong Valley, Pantling No. 329. | | 
The flowers are green throughout. This species was first collected by Dr. Н. A. 
Cummins, Surgeon to a detachment of troops stationed for some time near the Tibet 
frontier, an ardent botanist and excellent collector, to whom we have dedicated it. It is 
allied to H. pachycaulon, Hook. fil, but is perfectly distinct. 
Рілтв 424.—Habenaria Cumminsiana, King and Pantling. A plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 bract, 
ovary and flower, 2 column showing the anthers, polliniar glands, staminodes, stigmas (s), and the 
entrance to the spur, 3 lip, 4 petals, © section of spur, 6 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
22. HABENARIA ALBO-MARGINATA, new species. 
Height of entire plant not exceeding 8 inches; tuber depressed-globular. Siem rather 
stout, bearing a wide-mouthed tubular sheath at the base. Leaves two, remote, unequal, 
orbicular-elliptic to oblong, blunt, only slightly contracted at the base to the rather long 
tubular sheath; length 1 to 1°75 in., breadth °75 to 1 in.; peduncle of the spike stout, 
short, ebracteate. Spike 1 to 155 in. ds: 8- to Е Flowers “95 in. across at 
the mouth, expanding from above downwards; bract of the lowest flower occasionally 
large, foliaceous, lanceolate, spreading, about "8 in. long; those of the other flowers 
‘minute, triangular, only “06 in. long; the ovary sessile, tumid near ihe base, the apex 
with a stout curved beak. Sepals similar, spreading, broadly elliptic-ovate, blunt. Petals 
shorter than the sepals, sub-rotund, concave, not connivent with the dorsal sepal. Lip 
fleshy, slightly shorter than the sepals, broadly oblong, deeply 3-fid; the central lobe 
. longer than the lateral pair, oblong, tapering to the blunt apex; the lateral lobes much 
shorter, parallel, oblong, slightly falcate; spur cylindric, slightly depressed from front 
to back, tapering very slightly at the apex, straight, horizontal, shorter than the ovary. 
Column very short. Anther-cells touching by their apices, the bases divergent;. pollinia 
clavate-clliptic, with oblique apices, the caudicles short and stout; the glands minute, 
broadly elliptic, attached laterally. Staminodes large, rugulose, sub-globular, lying external 
` to the anther-cells. Stiymas united into a narrowly reniform horizontal band lying 
between the anther-cells and above the mouth of the spur. | 
