HABENARIA. 327 
oblong with: expanded apices, large. Hook: fiL Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 161 (im part). 
H. ornithoides, Wall. MSS. ? Peristylus grandis, Blume Bijdr. 405. Herminium goodyeroides, 
Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7066A (in part). 
‘Sikkim, at Mungpoo, elevation 3,000 feet; at Sivoke, 1,000 feet; Pantling No. 231, 
Anderson No, 1197; in flower from May to July. Nepal; Wallich (at Puspulnath in 
August). Behar (on Parisnath); T, Anderson. Gharwal, at Mussourie; King. Manipur ; 
Watt 6928. Khasia Hills; Hooker and Thomson, G. Mann, Nos. j5 and 1% and 377. 
Assam; Fisher. 
The flowers are sweetly-scented, and they are white or cream-coloured, the sepals 
bemg tinged with brown. The infertile stigma in this species also is bifid, 
Var. afinis, Lindl., Gen. and Spec. Orch., 300. At least a third smaller than the 
typical form in all its parts; with a rather longer lip, gibbous at the base, and with 
broader side lobes. Habenaria afinis, Don Prod. Fl. Nep. 95. H. goodyeroides, in Hook. 
fl. Fl. Br. Ind., 161. H. sacculata, Wall. MSS.  Peristylus goodyeroides, Lindl, Gen. and 
Spec. Orch., 299; Royle Illust. Him. Bot., t. 87, fig. 2. 
_ Sikkim, in the western part of the province, at an elevation of 2,000 feet; in 
flower during June; Pantling No. 453. Nepal; Wallich (at Toka in flower during 
July) Cat. 7066A. Gharwal; Royle, King. Khasia Hills; Clarke No. 44420; Mann, 
Nos. 5, 13. Naga Hills; Prain No. 66. j 
The flowers are usually of the same colour as in the typical form, but occasionally 
they appear to be more green. 
This species and the variety given above were originally described as species 
by D. Don on specimens which existed in the herbarium of Daniel Bourke Lambert. 
The original specimens have, however, been lost, and the oldest specimens known to 
botanists are those which were issued by Wallich as No. 7066A. of his distribution 
and catalogue (7066В is another species, viz., H. constricta). In making his distribution 
of the orchids of the Wallichian Herbarium, Lindley overlooked Don's H. afine, and 
he distributed both it and М. goodyeroides under the name Peristylus goodyeroides. 
Wallich, however, when he collected the plants which Lindley ultimately distributed 
as 7066A, recognised that they were different. ‘To one set of these, collected in 
July 1821 at Toka, he gave the MSS. name .Halenaría sacculata, Wall. To the other, 
collected at Puspulnath in August of the same year, he gave the name Habenaria 
ornithoides, Wall. A very careful examination of the Wallichian sheets numbered 7066A 
as they exist in the type set at the Linnean Society's rooms, in the Herbarium at Kew, 
and in that at Calcutta, was made by Dr. D. Prain, Curator of the Calcutta Herbarium, 
whose note on the subject we here reproduce, on account both of its excellence botanically, 
and of the curious piece of herbarium history which it puts on record. The note is 
as follows :— | 
“ As I discovered when I consulted the type Herbarium at the Linnwan Society, No. 7065B is 
really Н. constricta, Hook. fil. But 7066A turns out, as I had suspected, to be а mélange of two 
gatherings. One of these was got at Toka in July 1521, and in the field Dr. Wallich named it Наѓелагіа 
sacculata; the other was got at Puspulnath, August 1821, and Dr. Wallich named it Н. ornithoides. 
Clearly he thought the two different when he gathered them. Both were, however, distributed together 
when his Herbarlum was issued. Luckily for us we have both plants at Calcutta, so that we are in a 
position to clear up the matter thoroughly. At Kew there is only the August gathering; in Herbarium 
Lirdley, on the other Land, there is culy the July gathering of 7066. 
