A CENTURY OF INDIAN ORCHIDS; (J. D. HOOKER). 67 
Lindl, in Wall. Cat. n. 7040; Gen. and Sp. Orchid. 989. P. latilabris, Lindl. Gen. and 
Sp. 1. c. P. Orchidis, Wall. Cat. 7039, В. 
НАв.--ТемрЕвАТЕ HIMALAYA, from Kashmir, alt. 5—10,000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 7— 
12,000 ft.. CENTRAL INDIA, Hope (Herb. Clarke). 
Stem 6—18 in., stout or slender, from an elongate horizontal rather fusiform tuber. 
Leaves, lower 3—5 in. about 7-nerved, upper gradually smaller. Spike 3—10 in., lax- 
fid.; bracts lanceolate or the upper ovate-lanceolate (the latter foliaceous); ovary 
3—1 in. often strongly curved to опе side, shortly beaked ; flowers very variable 
in size, 3—3 in. broad. Sepals 3—5-nerved, green; petals yellow-green, erect, fleshy, 
from linear and gibbous on one side to dimidiate-ovate or broadly ovate with the outer 
base gibbous, Lip yellow-green, thick, linear or lanceolate or almost ovate, sides 
reflexed; spur stout or slender, often upcurved involute or flexuous. Anther rather 
small, broad, cells contiguous without tubes; pollinia pyriform, caudicles short, glands 
small; stigmatic processes large, subglobose; rostellum short, triangular, obtuse, Capsule 
з in. sessile, fusiform, shortly beaked, more or less curved or twisted. 
A very common Himalayan species, and most variable. The trivial namo is very inappropriate, but 
that of acuminata having been preoccupied for the Ate acuminata of Ceylon, the adoption of Jatilabris 
was imperative according to the current rules of nomenclature. In its narrow lip and petals the form 
of latilabris here figured approaches the И. stenantha, Hook. f. of the Sikkim Himalaya, which is a more 
slender plant with the lateral sepals linear, and so strongly reflexed as to give the flower the appearance 
of being laterally compressed. The two may probably prove to be varieties of one, The analyses in 
the accompanying plate are made from different plants; figs. 1 and 2 have lips (as in the whole spike 
figured) broader even than the common states of Zatilabris, and with reflected sides, whilst that of fig. 3 
is extremely narrow, linear and flat, as it is in H. stenantha; fig. 6 represents an intermediate form. 
In this and allied species the stem springs from the side or top of a long simple or branched sub- 
cylindric horizontal tuber, which is annually renewed. 
The plate is a reproduction of a drawing inscribed “ Sikkim, Sinchal, 8,000 ft., Aug. 1876.” 
Fig. 1, flower and bracts; 2, flower with the dorsal sepal and a petal removed; 3, flower with the perianth- 
segments displaced; 4, dorsal sepal; 5, petal; 6, lip; 7, pollinia :--ай enlarged, 
PLATE 101. 
HABENARIA (Phylisstachya) Herrer, Hook, کر‎ 
H. Helferi; caule pubescente ad apicem folioso, foliis sessilibus oblongo-lanceolatis 
acutis v. acuminatis 3-nerviis, floribus paucis solitariis axillaribus cernuis, sepalis falcato- 
lanceolatis herbaceis, petalis ovato-lanceolatis, labello magno porrecto sepalis duplo longiore 
integro cymbiforme marginibus recurvis purpureo v. roseo, calcare infundibulari v. inflato 
ovario breviore apice attenuato, anthers loculis approximatis parallelis, Hook. Л. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. vi. 164. Gymnadenia Helferi, Reichb. کر‎ in Flora, 187 2, 276 et in Trans. 
Soc. xxx. 139. 
Linn. 
НлАв,—Кнлыл HILLS, Simons. 'ТЕМАЗЗЕВТМ, at Moulmein, Helfer, Parish. 
Stem 8—16 in. from an oblong tuber, sheathed below, then leafy to the apex. Leaves 
4—8 in., spreading and recurved. Pedicel with ovary 2 in. pubescent, erect, then 
decurved. Sepals 1 in, long or less, lateral recurved or with recurved acuminate. tips ; 
