68 ` A CENTURY. OF INDIAN ORCHIDS; (J. D. HOOKER). 
petals nearly as large, rose-purple. Lip rose-purple, neither clawed nor lobed, quite entire, 
boat-shaped with recurved margins, orbicular.when spread out. Anther small, obtusely 
te, cells narrow, tubes very short, straight, close together; pollinia clavate; as long 
as their winged caudicles; glands rather large, contiguous; stigmatic processes obscure; 
um small, erect, 3-lobed, fleshy. Capsule $ in. long, sessile, linear-oblong, vibe 
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Helferi belongs to a small section of the genus including Н. galeandra, Benth, and №. jantha, 
from both of which it differs in the larger flower and very large, long, funnel-shaped spur 
‘describes the lip as broad or narrow, but it is broad in all the specimens that I have 
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