HERMINIUM. 333 
A species like H. angustifolium, Benth., in general appearance; but the flowers have 
a totally different lip and the sepals are spreading and free, those of H. angustifolium 
being connivent. This has been named from its 5-lobed lip. Its flowers are green. 
. Plate 433,—Herminium quinquelobum, King and Pantling. A plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 bract, 
ovary and flower, 2 pollinia, of natural size, 
3. Hermintum JarrREYANUM, King and Pantling in Journ. As. бос. Beng., 
Vol. LXV, Pt. 2, 130. 
Entire plant 4 to 8 in. high; the tuber ellipsoidal. Stem with one or two short 
convolute sheaths near the base. Leaves two, about an inch apart, from near the 
middle of the stem, narrowly oblong, acute, broad and sheathing at the base, 4 to 
4:5 in. long and :3 to ‘5 in. broad; stem above the leaves with a linear acuminate bract 
1:5 in. long. Spike 1:5 to 3 in. long, densely-flowered; the floral brací lanceolate, 
about as long as the ovary. Flowers *1б in. across. Sepals broadly ovate-ellptie, blunt, 
concave, spreading slightly. Petals spreading, narrowly oblong, obtuse, longer than the 
sepals, l-nerved. Lip flat, narrowly oblong-triangular from a broad base; basal lobes 
very small, short, rounded; the terminal lobe elongate, tapering to the blunt apex. 
Column short, broad. Anther-cells discrete, parallel; pollinia wedge-shaped, without 
caudicles; stigmas united, transversely oblong. 
Sikkim, common at elevations of from 8,000 to 10,000 feet; in flower during 
August; Pantling No. 237. 
In externals this resembles M. angustifolium, Benth., with which indeed it has been 
confounded. It has, however, very different sepals and lip. This also resembles 
П. gramineum, Lindl, which, however, has only a single leaf; the lip of H. graminevm, 
moreover, is ovate-acuminate and concave, and its flowers have longer and more subulate 
bracts, ‘This also resembles H. quinquelobum, King and Pantling, but has sessile pollinia 
and a different lip. The flowers are green, 
Рілте 436.—Herminium Jaffreyanum, King and Pantling. А plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 a 
flower, 2 pollinia; ай enlarged. ) 
4. HERMINIUM PUGIONIFORME, Lindl. MSS. ex. Hook. fil Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 130. 
Height of entire plant 2 to 7 in.; tuber small, globular. Stem with one or two 
minute sheaths at the base. Leaf solitary, sub-radical, oblong-oblanceolate, sub-acute or 
obtuse, slightly narrowed to the very short sheath; length “65 to 1 in, breadth 
85 to °5 іп; stem above the leaf elongate, naked. Spike "95 to 1:75 in. long, 
laxly-flowered. Flowers minute, only about “05 in. across; floral bract broadly ovate, 
shorter than the tumid ovary. Sepals unequal; the dorsal broadly ovate, forming a hood 
over the column with the petals; the lateral pair rather longer than the dorsal, falcately 
oblong, obtuse. Petals concave, rotund, their edges crenulate, Lip as long as the lateral 
sepals ; the base much expanded, fleshy and excavated into two deep oval parallel Pits ; 
‘the anterior part linear-oblong sub-terete. Ал ther-cells discrete, their apices touching, 
their tubes diverging; pollinia elliptic, slightly clavate, tapering somewhat (without 
having definite caudicles) to the elliptic glands; staminodes oblong with obtuse ends. 
Stigmas conjoined, lying between the polliniar glands, 
