330 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
sepals, broadly elliptic, sub/acute, the bases oblique. Lip equalling the sepals in legnth, 
oblong, concave, the margins entire, the apex 3-lobed; side *lobes narrowly triangular, 
pointed · forwards, very near the small triangular blunt terminal lobe. Spur small, 
globular, slightly compressed vertically. Colvmn ‘broad, with two unequal triangular 
incurved wings (?staminodes) along its outer edges. Anthsr-cells close together, parallel ; 
the pollinia broadly oyoid, each with a short caudicle.and a discoid gland lodged in a 
pouch. Stigma large, extending on each side of the pouches and of the minute mouth 
of the spur, and concealed partly by the incurved wings of the column. 
Sikkim, at Choong-thang, elevation 5,500 feet; in flower — July; Pantling 
No. 424. | | 
In externals this species resembles ZZ. Prainii, Hook. fil, with which: it was at first 
confused. It is, however, perfectly distinct. This plant has the facies of a Habenaria, 
but the glands and the bases of the caudicles of the pollinia rest in twin aes. after 
the manner of Ophrys. 
| Рглте 432.— Hübenaria pseudophrys, King and Pantling. An entire plant, of natural sige.. Fig. 1 
part of ovary and the flower, 2 bract, ovary, column and lip, i» profile, 8 the petals, 4 lip, 5 apex of 
ovary, spur of lip and column, the latter with its lateral wings (? staminodes), the anther- eis, panier 
glands in their pouches (р r), stigma (з), and entrance to the spur (c); all enlarged. 
| 30. HABENARIA SECUNDIFLORA, Hook. fil Ic. Plantar., t 252 
* . Whole plant 4 to 10 in. high; tubers ellipsoid. Stem with a few small phanita at 
the base. Leaves two or three, remote, linear-oblong to linear, acute, scarcely narrowed 
to the tubular sheath; length 2 to 5 im, breadth :2 to *5 in.; peduncle short, bearing 
two or three linear-acuminate bracts :35 to “65 in. long. “Евсете 155 to 5 in. long. 
Flowers rather crowded, secund, “85 “їп. long; floral bract lanceolate, acuminate, -the 
edges cilio.ate, the lower much longer than the curved tumid almost sessile ovary. 
Sepals sub-equal, lanceolate. Petals narrower, linear, sub-acute, faleate, minutely рарШове 
like the lip, connivent with the three sepals to form. a hood over the, column. Lip as 
long as the sepals, deflexed, triangulat-ob!ong in general outline; the apical half the 
widest, 3-lobed; its middle lobule the largest, oblong, acute; the lateral lobules triangular, 
not diverging; spur shorter than the ovary or sepals, narrowly funnel-shaped, blunt. 
Column rather long, infundibuliform. Anther-cells parallel, touching; pollinia oblong- 
obovoid, tapering to the short stout caudicles; the glands large, lanceolate, acuminate, 
united along their inner edges for half their length. Staminodes oblong, rugulose. 
Infertile stigma erect, large, 2-lobed, each lobe faleately oblanceo'ate and forming a flap 
covering the base of the anther. Fertile s//ymas conjoined, transversely oblong, forming 
а horizontal band below the infertile-one. Hook: fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 165. | 
Sikkim, in the Lachoong Valley, at elevations of from 9,000 to 11,000 feet; 
.G. Gammie, Pantling No. 419; in the Chumbi Valley (in Bhotan), King's Collectors; in 
flower during August and September. Kamaon: € near дік: Duthie No. MM 
The colour of tlie flowers is pink. | | 
This species resembles Н. urceolata in having united stigmas and secund inflorescence, 
bui it differs: from И. urceolata in having all its perianth, except the lip, connivent to 
form a hood over the column, which in this, moreover, is ‘blunt instead of acute. And 
