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25. HABENARIA FALLAX, King and Pantling. 
| Whole plant 4 to 12 in.; tubers small, ellipsoid. Stem 1 to 2 in. long, with two 
tubular blunt sheaths at the base. Leaf solitary (in Sikkim specimens), narrowly 
elliptic, acute, tapering slightly to the short sheath; length 15 to 6 in., breadth 45 
to ‘75 in.; peduncle of spike long, with a single linear lanceolate acuminate bract. 
Spike 155 to 4 in. long, rather laxly-flowered. Flowers (to the end of the lip) :35 in. 
at the mouth; floral bract lanceolate, shorter than or as long as the slightly decurved 
ovary. Sepals sub-equal, oblong or ovate-lanceolate, the dorsal connivent with the 
petals to form a hood; the lateral pair erect, non-connivent, but not spreading. Pedals 
varying in size, oblong, blunt. Zip not much longer than the sepals, rather fleshy, 
hastately 3-lobed from about the middle; the apical lobe oblong, obtuse, deflexed, longer 
than the two oblong blunt slightly diverging side lobes; the base truncate and with 
a saccate spur much shorter than the sepals, 2-ribbed in the interior. Column rather 
long.  Anther-cells discrete, parallel, without tubes; pollinia clavate, the caudicles short, 
stout, tapering to the small cordate glands; s¢aminodes small, attached about the middle 
of the outer surfaces of the anther-cells. Stigmas two, transversely oblong, touching by 
their ends and forming a band across the column below the anther-cells. Herminium 
Jallaz, Lindl. in Wall Cat. 7419; Hook. fil Іс. Plant., t. 2198; Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 129. 
Peristylus fallax, Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orch., 298. Cybele, Fale. in Lindl. Veg. Kingd., 
193c; С. alpina, Fale. MSS. : 
Sikkim, at elevations of 10,000 to 12,000 feet; in the Lachen and Lachoong valleys, 
8t Gnatong; Hooker, Pantling Nos. 174 and 426; in flower during July. Kamaon, on 
Liria-Kanta; Davidson. At Ralam; Strachey and Winterbottam, | 
| The flowers are green throughout. Lindley at first named this Herminium, but he 
` subsequently transferred it into his genus Peristylus which has since been reduced to 
Habenaria. We think it ought to be in abenaria, having a very distinct wide spur 
and а lip much resembling those of other species in the section Peristylus, in which 
we have therefore placed it. Specimens from the western Himalaya have often two 
leaves which are sub-opposite. 
PLATE 428,—Habenaria fallax, King and Pantling. А plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 a flower, 
2 ovary, column with anther-cells in situ, and lip, in profile, 3 section of spur, 4 pollinia; all enlarged. 
96. HABENARIA CONSTRICTA, Wall. ex Hook, fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 161. 
Whole plant 20 to 30 in. high; ter oblong, hairy. Stem stout, clothed at the 
base with wide blunt sheaths.  .Leaves five or six in a whorl about the summit of the 
‘stem, ovate-elliptic, acute or acuminate, much narrowed to the long stem-clasping 
sheath; length 3 to 7 in., breadth 1:25 to 3:5 in.; stem above the leaves with a few 
linear-lanceo'ate acuminate bracts, 1:25 to °5 in. long, diminishing upwards, Spike 
broadly cylindric, 5 to 9 in. long, many- and densely-flowered. Flowers *'75 to 79 in. 
across, horizontal; floral bract erect, lanceolate, acuminate, as long as or longer than 
the erect shortly beaked ovary. Sepals sub-equal, ci'iolate, oblong, obtuse, the dorsal 
conduplicate; the lateral pair with involute margins, spreading. Petals larger than the 
sepals, obliquely ovate, lanceolate, rather bluntly acuminate, their bases oblique, some- 
what gibbous on the lower side, spreading upwards in front of the dorsal sepal and not 
