HERMINIUM. | ^... ‘Bas 
lower half. Anther-cells.small, distant, parallel.  Stigmas conjoined, forming a transverse 
band across the column. par | Ep d 21% : a 
22 Sikkim, at Ling-tu and Sin-ga-le-la, at elevations of 11,000 to 12,000 feet; in 
flower: during Juy; Рамно Мә 85, зз хз ees ges obo mona 
The colour is green throughout. | 
Рілтв 439.—Herminium angustilabre, King and Pantling. Three plants, of natural sise.: Fig. 1 
‘a flower, 2 bract, ovary, column and lip, in profile, 3 apex of ovary, base of the lip and the column, the 
latter bearing the anther-célls and stigma, 4 sepals and petals, separated; all enlarged. ` 
1. HERMINIUM CONGESTUM, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. No. 7068; Gen. and | 
' Spec. Orch., 305. 
Entire plant 3 to 7 in. in height; tuber ovoid-globose, hairy. Stem with one or two 
Short blunt wide sheaths at the base. Leaves two or three, rising close together near the 
‘base, narrowly oblong-elliptic, sometimes slightly oblanceolate, sub-acute or obtuse, 
slightly narrowed to the usually short sheath; length 1:25 to 4 in, breadth ‘3 to 
"65 in.; stem above the leaves with a single linear bract, often naked. Spike narrow, 
‘5 to 95 in. long, many-flowered. Flowers “15 in. across, drooping (from the curving 
of the ovary); Jforal bract ovate, acute, very much shorter than the beaked ovary. 
Sepals sub-equal, obtuse; the dorsal broadly .ovate; the lateral narrower, oblong, sub- 
acute, slightly spreading. . Petals as long as ће sepals or a little longer, obliquely 
triangular-lanceolate, acute. Zip longer than the sepals, fleshy, triangularly ovate- 
lanceolate, blunt, the base triangular; sides lobes very narrow, crenulate, the apical lobe 
quite entire, the upper surface with two small calli at the mouth of the minute globose 
saccate spur; pollinia broadly ellipsoid with blunt ends, the caudicles very short; the 
glands oblique, horn-like; staminodes oblong with tapering ends. Stigmas two, situated 
behind the caudicles of the pollinia and’ above the entrance to the minute sac-like 
spur. Capsule 95 in. long. Lindl. in Journ. Linn Soc. ІП, 43; Hook.” fil. Fl. 
Br. Ind. VI, 130. ZZ. wnalaschcense, Reichb. fiL Ic. Fl. Germ. ХШ, 107, t. 418. 
H. Schischmarefiana, Chamiss. in Linnea, ІП, 29. Platanthera Schischmarefiana, Lindl. 
Gen. and Spec. Orch., 286. . Neottia. macrophylla, Don ;Prodr. 27.. Spiranthes mac- | 
rophylla, and S. unalaschcensis, Spreng. Syst. III, : 708. ; * „йе 
i Sikkim, common at elevations between 10,000 and 12,500 foet; in flower 
during July and August; Pantling No. 984. ` Westward to Nepal. Distrib. Aleutian 
‘Islands. Д os j | 
The colour of the flowers 1s green. 
Pam 440.—Herminium congestum, Lindl. A plant, of natural size. Fig: 1 a flower, 2 minute 
bract, beaked ovary, column and lip with its minute globular, spur, 3 lip, upper surface, 4 the petals, 
5 column, showing the anther-cells, polliniar glands (p g), staminodes (s), and the orifice of the spur (е), 
` 6 pollinia; ай enlarged. — : | | C nn ni 
~ 
8. Hersom Jossem, Reichb. fil. in Flora LV (1872), 276. 
' Entire plant 4 to 10 in. in height; tuber sub-globose. — Stem with a lax blunt sheath 
“at the base. Leaves two, from near the basé, sub-opposite (sometimes only one), narrowly 
elliptic-oblong, acute, narrowed to the long sheath. Peduncle of spike naked. Spike 
