HABENARIA. | 323 
Sikkim, near Jongri, elevation about 13,000 feet; in flower during June; Pantling 
No. 450. - | DA 
‘The sepals are green with white margins, the other parts of the flower being white. 
The centrifugal inflorescence is a very unusual feature in a Habenaria. 
Рглте 425.—Habenaria albo-marginata, King and Pantling. Ап entire plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 
apex of ovary and flower, 2 floral bract, ovary, column and lip, tn profile 3 the petals and lip 
separated, 4 apex of ovary and column, showing anther-cells, pollinia and their glands, staminodes (a) 
stigma (s) and mouth of spur (c), 5 section of spur, 6 pollinia; ай enlarged. j 
. 93. Hanrwamn Равіѕнп, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 161. 
Whole plant 12 to 18 in. high; tuber ellipsoid, hairy, the stem close above it 
bearing many fibrous roots. Stem clothed іп its stout lower part with wide, lax, blunt 
sheaths. eaves four or five in a whorl at the summit of the stem, ovate-elliptic, 
acute, narrowed to the broad short sheaths, 2:5 to 5 in. long and 1 to 1°75 in. broad; 
peduncle of the spike slender, bearing a few distant lanceolate acuminate bracts. 
Spike narrow, 4 to 8 in. long, many-flowered. Flowers not crowded, horizontal, “25 in. in 
diam. at the mouth; floral bract lanceolate, shortly acuminate, longer or shorter than the 
erect sessile ovary. Sepals rather ‘unequal; the dorsal larger than the narrowly oblong 
obtuse spreading lateral pair. Petals larger than the sepals, broadly ovate, sub-acute. Lip. 
slightly longer than the petals, shortly 3-lobed beyond the middle, curved and the apex 
deflexed; the side lobes triangular, acute, their apices directed forwards; apical lobe 
oblong, tapering to the obtuse point; spur shorter than the sepals, straight, widely 
fusiform. Anther-cells almost touching by their parallel inner margins, without tubes; 
pollinia pyriform, with very short caudicles, attached laterally to the small oblong glands; 
staminodes large, rugulose, situated by the sides of the anther-cells. Stigmas two, irregularly 
oblong, curved, lying below the anther-cells and touching by their inner edges. Capsule 
tumid, faleate, broadly ridged, :35 in. long. Peristylus Parishii, Hook. fil; Reichb. fil. 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. ХХХ, 139. ЛП. verticillata, King and Pantling MSS. 
Sikkim, at Silake, elevation 2,000 feet; in flower during June; Griffith (Kew 
Distrib. No. 5305), King, Pantling No. 156. Upper Burma at Meiktela; collectors of Bot. 
Gard., Calcutta. At Moulmein; Parish. S. Andaman Island; Kurz, King’s collectors. 
"The sepals are brown tinged with olive green, and the petals and lip are olive green. 
This appears to be the same as Griffith’s specimen from Bhotan, (No. 28 in the Kew 
Herbarium) The lip of this is sigmoidly curved (as is shown in Fig. 2 of our Plate}, 
whereas in H. goodyeroides, Don, which is probably its nearest ally, the lip is flat with 
an oblong depression in front of the minute opening into the spur. The spur of 
Н. goodyeroides is moreover globular, whereas the spur of this is fusiform, There are 
considerable differences also in the columns of the two, as will be at once _ seen 
by comparing the figures numbered 2 in our plates of each. The flowers of this are 
green and inodorous, whereas the flowers of H. goodyeroides are cream-coloured or white 
inl fragrant. An allied species is also H. constricta. 
Рілте 426.—Habenaria Parishit, Reichb. fil. А plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 bract, ovary, and 
flower, 2 bract, ovary, column and lip, іл profile, 8 apex of ovary and column, showing anther-cells 
and ові glands, staminodes, and stigmas, 4 pollinia, front and side views; ail enlarged, 
Axx. Roy. Bor. GARD., CALCUTTA, Vou. VIII. 
