332 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALaAYA. 
1. Hermintum ANGUsTIFOLIUM, Benth. MSS. ex Hook. fil Fl. Br. 
Ind. VI, 129. 
Whole plant 10 to 30 in. high; tubers small, oblong or ellipsoid. Stem clothed 
in its lower part with tubular acute sheaths. Leaves two or three, long, linear, acuminate, 
not narrowed to the long sheath; length 2 to 10 in., breadth -15 to “5 in. Stem 
above the leaves short, usually bearing a linear acuminate гасі. Spike cylindric, narrow, 
95 to 10 in. long, many-flowered. Flowers (to the end of the lip) about "З in. long, 
crowded ; floral bract linear-lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than or as long as the ovary. 
Sepals sub-equal, oblong, obtuse, the dorsal connivent with the petals to form a hood 
over the column, the lateral pair spreading. Petals as long as the sepals, but very 
narrowly linear. Lip much longer than the sepals, deflexed from the base, oblong in 
general outline; the lower half minutely auriculate and with а small concavity at the 
base; the anterior half trifid at its apex, the middle lobe very short; the side lobes 
long, filiform, curved. Anther-cells parallel, close together; pollinia pyriform, with rather 
blunt bases and very short slender caudicles ; glands small, discoid; staminodes large. 
Stigmas two, transversely oblong, lying close together end to end below the anther-cells. 
Aceras angustifolia, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7061; Gen. and Spec. Orch. 282; Bot. Reg. 
under t. 1525; in Journ. Linn. Soc. Ш, 43; Royle Ill Bot. Him. t. 87; Wight Ie. 
t. 1691. .H. longicruris, Wright in Mem. Acad. Philad., Ser. 2, VI, 141. Thisbe, Falc. 
in Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 183с (name only). 
ıı Sikkim, common at elevations of from 4,500 to 9,000 feet or upwards; in flower 
during July and August; Pantling No. 44. Westwards along the chain to Gharwal. 
Bhotan, Khasia Hills, Naga Hills, Tenasserim. Distrib —Chins, Japan, Manchuria. 
The flowers are of a uniform green colour. 
Prats 434.—Herminium angustifolium, Benth. A plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 bract, ovary and 
flower, 2 upper part of ovary, column with anther in situ and lip, 3 apex of column and base of lip, 
anther-cells with the pollinia and their appendages, staminodes and stigmas, 4 pollinia; a// enlarged. 
2. HERMINIUM QUINQUELOBUM, King and Pantling in Journ, As. Soc. Beng., 
Vol LXV, Pt. 2, 130. 
Entire height of the plant 4 to 12 in.; tubers oblong, undivided, about 1 in. 
long. Lower part of stem enveloped in two long convolute sheaths. Leaves two, rising 
from about the middle of the stem, linear-oblong, sub-acute, 6 or 7 in. long and `5 to 
"6 in. broad; stem above the leaves with a single linear bract 1:5 in. long. Spike 1:5 
to 4 in. long, rather laxly-flowered. Flowers 795 in. across to end of lip; the floral bract 
lanceolate, as long as the shortly-beaked ovary. Sepals sub-equal, free, ovate-oblong, 
sub acute, spreading. Petals linear-acuminate, spreading and, like the sepals, 1-nerved. 
Lip longer than the sepals, oblong with small triangular basal auricles besides lateral 
Jobes and a contracted triangular acuminate terminal lobe; the lateral lobes near the 
apex, and sometimes elongate. Column broad. Anther-cells discrete, parallel; pollinia 
broadly ovoid, blunt at each end, the caudicles short and stout, the glands discoid. 
Staminodes oblong. Stigmas two, transversely oblong, lying between the polliniar glands 
and the concavity of the lip, their ends close together but not united. 
Sikkim, at Tendong, elevation 7,000 feet; in flower during August;  Pantling 
No. 339. Also at Tankra, elevation 9,500 feet; G. Gammie. Sinchal; King. Darjeeling; 
larke, Thomson. | 
