HERMINIUM. 931 
in its united polliniar glands this. differs not only from H. urceolata, but .from every 
bcm of Habenaria described in this work. 
= Prats 488. i Hileserid secundiflora, Hook. fil. -An entire plant, of natural size; ‘Fig. 1 à flower, 
2 fo ovary and flower, in profile,.3 the petals, 4 lip, 5 column showing the anther-cells, staminodes (c), | 
infertile stigma (r), polliniar glands. (p 0 and stigma (8), 6 section of spur, 7 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
88. Herminium, Linn. 
Erect ма tuberous rooted herbs of small size, Leaves solitary or few, cauline. 
or radical, sheathing at the base. Flowers in spikes, green. Sepals sub-equal, free, or 
the dorsal conniving with the petals to form a hood, the lateral pair spreading. Petals 
usually smaller than the sepals, connivent or spreading, sometimes fleshy, always entire. 
Lip adnate to the base of the column, as long as or longer than the sepals, often fleshy, 
broad or narrow, entire or 3- or 5-fid, the base concave or very shortly saccate, the 
upper surface sometimes with calli or pits near the base. Column very short; anther-cells 
adnate to its face, parallel, or slightly divergent below; pollinia two, the caudicles 
usually short or sometimes absent; the glands small and orbicular or elliptie, or 
large hollow and horn-like. Stamimodes two, rugulose, attached outside the anther-cells. 
Stigmas two, distant or. conjoined. Species 13, all Indian and all montane or alpine. 
~ e Herminium is distinguished from Halenarta chiefly by the absence of a spur or by its small size 
when present; as also by the small sizo of the plants. All the species have green flowers, 
Lip much longer than broad, not fleshy. 
Lip oblong, deeply 3-lobed near the apex; iege pyriform ; | 
. their candicles very. short, slender. . 1. И. angusti/oltum. 
d 5-lobed, the basal lobes always Lh the lateral Mes 
near the apex sometimes elongate; pu: ovoid, their 
caudicles short, stout . . . . . 
Lip 3-lobed, the lateral lobes near the fend м very ишен. 
pollinia . wedge-shaped, sessile . . қ > 3. H. Juffreyanum. 
Lip not lobed; uarrowly е: 
Lip broad at the base and- with two rv oval ame 
pollinia sessile . . . . i 2. 4. H, pugionifor me. 
Lip not pitted at the bese. 
, Column with two к» not winged; wp. wih X 
eaudicles . ‘ H. gracile. 
Column winged. in its бе half e» « 5. 5 6. JI. angustilabre, 
Lip not much longer than broad, fleshy. 
Лар triangularly ovate-lanceolate, Sask the basal half broad, 
"and with long narrow crenulate side lobes; the upper 
surface with two minute calli near the orifice of the spur ; 
polliniar glands large and horn-lke. , . . . ... . .:.7. И, congestum. 
Lip not lobed. ! 
Lip broadly .ovate, s and bluntly acuminate, the 
edges sub-crenulate, the base with a semi-lunar pit ‘and 
two thickened lines; polliniar glands horn like, large . 8. H. Jesephi. 
Lip ovate-orbicular, gibbous towards the "- with no 
‚саш or pits on its upper surface . . . ” . 
Н. quinguelolum. 
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H. orliculare, 
Ах». Ror. Рот. Gan», CALCUTTA, Vor. VIII. 
