884 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
Sikkim, on’ Sin-ga-le-la, at an elevation, ӨР about. 12,000.feet; in flower during 
July; Pantling No. 374; also in the Gharwal-Himalaya; Duthie No. 517. | 
Тһе colour of the flowers 18 green. 
“PEATE 437 —Horminium pugtoniforme, Lindi. Three plants, of n*tural size. Fig. 1 bract, ovary 
and flower, 2 apex of ovary, with column and lip showing thé anther-colls (а), the tubes and glands 
of their pollinia (pg), and the staminodes (s); ай enlarged. 
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5. HERMINIUM GRACILE, King and Pantling in. Journ. Linn. Soc., Vol. LXV, 
Pt. 2, 131. 
Height of entire SUN 4 to 7 in. Stem anglel, with. one or two blunt wide 
sheaths near its base. Leaf solitary, ovate, obovate, oblanceolate or elliptic with a short 
sheathing petiole, blunt or sub-acute; length :5 to 1:5 in., breadth 5 to ‘65 in.; petiole 
‘lin. Peduncle naked ; spike “5 to 1:5 in. long, sparsely-flowered. Flowers 71 in. long, 
their dracts lanceolate, as long as the pedicel of the tumid ovary. Dorsal sepal broadly 
ovate, obtuse, concave; the lateral pair concave at the apex, oblong, blunt, deflexed. 
Peíals broadly oblong, very concave, as large as the dorsal sepal and with it forming 
a hood over the column. Lip narrowly oblong-triangular, its base continuous with the 
column, not lobed, the apex sub-aeute, bent about the middle, the basal half directed 
downwards and the apical half forwards. Column: hooded, the third or modified stigma 
occupying a large transverse area above the two fertile stigmas. Anther-cells distant, 
each having a depressed elliptic fertile stigma on its inner side; pollinia broadly ovoid, 
their caudicles bent at a right angle, and each attached to a small brown gland; 
staminodes small, oblong, attached to Hm fertile anthers near their caudicles at the 
outer sides... 
Sikkim, in the dn valley, at an ine: of about 1 ‚000 feet; in flower in 
July; Pantling No. 397. 
This species has a pericial ыллык {о и. orbiculare, Hook. fil. The flower 
in that species has, however, a lip with a short spur, and the column is very simple; 
whereas in this plant there is no trace of spur, and the structure of. the column is 
very complicated. 
Prare 438 —Horm/nium gracile, King ала Pantling. Two plants, of natural size. Fig. 1 front 
view of a flower, 2 front view of bract, ovary, px. and lip (the latter fiuttened out), showing the 
third or infertile stigma (a), anther-cells (6), ветк к (p.g), staminode (s), the fertile stigmas е 
9 the petals, 4 pem all эр, 
6. Ненміхшм ANGUSTILABRE, King and Pantling i in Journ. As. Soe. Beng. n 
Vol. LXV, Pe. 2, isk: 
Height of the whole plant 3 or 4 “inches. Stem angled. Ja ا‎ near ` the 
base of the stem, sessile, elliptic, obtuse, :65 in. long and ':35 to :45 in. broad, the 
part of the stem above the leaf with two linear-lanceolate acuminate bracts "5 in. long. 
Spike “75 to 1 in. long. Flowers “1 in. across; floral bract acuminate, longer than the 
sessile beaked ovary. Dorsal sepal broadly ovate, acute, concave, curved forwards ; 
lateral sepals and peta's sub-equal, narrowly oblong, the. former deflexed. “Lip slightly 
«с the lateral sepals, linear, деНехей, sub-acute, entire. ‚ Column winged in its 
