64 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
an erect ligule at the mouth. Stigmatic processes clavate. Pollinia with minute glands, 
Capsule shortly pedicelled, $ in. long, fusiform, ribs thick. 
А very common, widely diffused Indian species, and consequently very variable in stature, 
foliaceous habit and size of the flowers. Forms which I have included under var. foliosa, and which 
ascend to 8,000 feet in the Nilghiris, are very leafy, but shorter, with denser flowers, shorter 
bracts and fibform segments of the lip: to it are referable H. foliosa, A. Rich., H. laciniata, Dalz., 
Plat inthera marginata, Wall, and Orchis mysorensis, Heyne. 
The де here figured is noted on the drawing as from “near Darjeeling, October 1877 
G. King.” It represents a plant nearly twice as large as any of Ше specimens of the species that 
I have seen. 
Fig. 1, bract and flower-bud; 2, flower; 3, flower with petals removed P; 4, flower with sepals and petals 
removed ; 5, side view of flower; 4, pollinia :—all enlarged. | 
PLATE 96. 
HABENARIA (Ай) srENOPETALA, Lindl. Var. polytricha. 
| E  alenopetala, Lindl. Gen. and sp. Orchid. 319 (not 324); Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. vi. 134. 
Var. ий ль: bracteis flores excedentibus, racemo brevi densifloro, ` sepalis in 
aristas capillaceas lamina multo longiores productis, petalorum  eruribus patentibus 
zequilongis setaceis, labelli lobis filiformibus incurvis. 
Has.—Sixxm Hımaraya, at Choongtam, alt. 6,000 ft., J. D. Н. Naca Huis, Pra. 
Differs from the ordinary form of H. stenopetala in the exaggerated length and capillary 
slenderness of the apices of the sepals, and segments of the lip and of the petals. 
The drawing is made from a dried specimen ticketed “ Naga Hills, No. 79, Jotsuma. 
Dr. D. Prain, 1886,” which was lent me by Dr. King from the Calcutta Herbarium. The same 
form or negmly approaching it is found in Sikkim. 
PLATE 97. 
HABENARIA (Platyglossa) ARIETINA, Hook. f. 
Н. arietina; caule elato robusto  folioso,: foliis ovato-lanceolatis ^ acuminatis 
 amplex icaulibus subtus valide costatis, racemo elongato multifloro; bracteis ovato-lanceolatis, 
Ñ inferioribus foliaceis ovariis longioribus, superioribus brevioribus cymbiformibus acuminatis; 
3 floribus amplis virescentibus, sepalis lateralibus ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, dorsali cum 
petalis faleatis basi gibbosis pubescentibus in galeam latam cohcerentibus, labelli 3-partiti 
segmentis. lateralibus. extus pectinatis intermedio lineari. Hook. J. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 138. 
а n н pectinata, Lindl, Gen. and Sp. Orchid. 341 (non. Don.); Wall, Cat. 7029 B " 
- part), С: 
Has. — TEMPERATE и from Simla, alt. 5—8,000 ft., eastward to Sikkim,‏ کے 
to 10,000 ft. Кнавта Hus, alt. 9--6, 000 IE‏ | رسود що‏ 
Tuber oblong. Stem 1—9 ft. and upwards, often as thick as a swan’s quill below, 
с = | м Leaves 4—6 in., ö-nerved, tip usually curved. Raceme 6—10. in., laxly 
; lower bracts 2 in., much longer than the ovary, upper half not longer than 
