A CENTURY OF INDIAN ORCHIDS; (7. D. HOOKER). 65 
the pedicel, which with the ovary is 1—2 in. long; flowers 2 in. diam. or less. 
Sepals and petals variable in breadth, widely spreading. Zip with the lateral lobes 
slender, faleate, pectinate with long cilia on the outer margin; spur 2—2 in, slender. 
Anther short, broad, cells rather incurved, their short tubes upcurved towards the face 
of the anther-cells or outwards; pollinia linear, about as long as their caudicles or shorter; 
rostellum confluent with the face of the column, stigmatic processes elongate. falcate. 
Closely allied to H. pectinata, Don., and taken for it by Lindley, who, as observed in the Flora of 
British India, gave the latter plant the name of H. ensifolia. It differs from JI. pectinata in the much 
broader and very gibbous pubescent petals, and. in the longer lip. They may prove to be varieties, 
for they inhabit the same mountains and at about the same elevation, but, as hitherto observed, 
apparently keeping their characters. The closely allied JT. intermedia, Don., also of the temperate 
Himalaya, differs in the glabrous petals and long stout spur. 
The specimen figured was collected in Sikkim, * Darjeeling, 16th April 1876, G. King." 
Fig. 1, flower; 2, ovary, column, and lip; 8, dorsal and 4, lateral sepals; 5, petals; 6, pollinia:—all enlarged. 
PLATE 98, 
HABENARIA (Platyglossa) GENICULATA, Доп. 
H. geniculata; caule elato folioso superne vaginis foliaceis elongatis involuto, foliis 
sessilibus ellipticis oblongo-lanceolatisve acutis 5—7-пегуйз, spica oblonga pauci-v. 
multi-flora, bracteis ovario fusiformi rostrato paullo brevioribus lanceolatis acuminatis, 
sepalis late ovatis acutis, petalis lineari-oblongis ; labello orbiculari v. late obcordato, 
lobis lateralibus latis semi-orbiculatis v. dimidiato-cuneatis crenatis v. fimbriatis, inter- 
medio minuto, calcare gracili ovario multo longiore medio geniculato. Don Fl. Nep. 
Prodr. 25; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 138. Platanthera geniculata, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 
я. 7042.—Habenaria, Grif. Notul, iii, 406, Ші, “Notes, 31, No. 491 et Ie, Рі, 
Asiat. і. 340. 
HAB.—SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Nepal eastwards. Kuasta and NAGA Hits, alt. 
25,000 ft. Bursa, Wallich. 
Stem 1—3 ft., stout or slender. Leaves 2—6 in., sheaths long. Spike 6—10 in. 
long, 4—50 Я4.; bracts 4—15 in., green, peristent; ovary narrowly fusiform, slightly 
decurved at the tip, thickly ribbed; flowers 2—1 in. broad. Sepals variable in breadth, 
greenish-white ; petals much shorter and narrower, white. Lip white, very variable 
in breadth, often 4 in. broad, sometimes orbicular with the very small entire yellow 
ovate mid-segment in a terminal notch, at others much broader than long, with wing- 
like side-lobes and a tongue-shaped midlobe, which is hardly longer than the side-lobes ; 
margins of side-lobes. erose-crenate or shortly fimbriate; spur much longer than the 
ovary, kneed above the middle, the lower portion more or less clavate towards the tip. 
Anther broad, cells divaricate, their tubes upcurved; glands of pollinia small; stigmatic 
processes elongate, clavate, margining the mouth of the spur; rostellum low, broad. 
Capsule 1 in., shortly pedicelled, beaked, deeply grooved and thickly ribbed. | ! 
A very fine species, common in the Himalayas at low elevations. The drawing here reproduced 
ін inscribed “Mungpo, Sikkim, 3,500 ft., September-October 1874, С. King.” 5.1 
Figs. 1 and 2, flowers :—enlarged. 
Axx. Roy. Bor. Garp. Carc, Vor. V. 
