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A shorter and much stouter plant than Z. Zindleyana, and with shorter and more densely 
flowered racemes; the structure of the flower is also very different. The sub-opposite position 
and leaf-like appearance of the upper sheaths of this plant suggest an affinity towards Listera 
proper. 
Р.Ате 119. Listera Inayati Duthie. Single plant,—of natural size, Fig. 1, single 
flower, side view; 2, front view of flower, with lip removed; 3, side view of ditto with 
sepals and petals removed; 4 and 5, column; 6, anther; 7, pollinia ;—all enlarged. 
9. Listera LINDLEYANA King & Pantling in Ann. R. Bot, Gard. Cale. viii, 
258, t. 343. 
Whole plant 2 to 35 dm. high. Root-fibres rather stout and brittle, ofteu 
forming a congested mass at the end of the root-stock. Stem longer than the 
raceme, stout or slender, bearing three or four loose blunt sheaths about 2:5 cm. 
long, nearly glabrous below, its upper portion together with the raceme glandular- 
pubescent. Leaves none. Flowers dull yellowish-green, 8 to 12 mm. long, Jax; floral 
bract ovate-oblong, varying in length, Sepals elliptic-ovate, subacute, concave, the 
lateral ones somewhat falcate. Petals much narrower. Lip two or three times as 
long as the sepals, narrowly obovate-oblong, brown, the apex cleft into two oblong or 
lanceolate acute lobules; the sinus broad and with a small triangular process at its 
apex; upper surface minutely puberulous, and with a greenish-coioured linear groove 
which forms a ridge on the back. Column much curved, dilated at the base and 
apex. Capsule 8 mm. long, broadly elliptic, often obliquely so, its pedicel about as 
long. Neottia listeroides Lindl. in Royle Ш. Him. Bot. 368, беп. & Sp. Orch. 
458; in Journ. Linn. Soc. i, 176; Hook. f. Fi. Br. Ind. vi, 103; Collett Fl. Siml. 
495. N. Lindleyana Dene in Jacquem. Voy. Bot, 163, t. 103. 
Distributed throughout the Western Himalaya from Hazara to Kumaon at 
elevations between 5,000 and 11,000 feet, flowering from July to September. It 
extends eastwards to Nepal and Sikkim, and north-westwards to the district of 
Chitral. 
4, ІЛвТЕБА KASHMIRIANA Duthie. 
Whole plant about 26 dm. high. oot-fibres stout, crowded and intricate. 
Lower portion of glabrous stem stout, enveloped by three or four large loose blunt 
sheaths, Leaves none. Raceme laxly many-flowered, with a few linear-oblong acute 
bracts below the lowest flowers, its rachis minutely puberulous. Flowers spreading, 8 шш. 
long from the base of the slender pedicel to the summits of the sepals and 
petals, yellowish-brown; floral braci broadly ovate, acute, longer than the pedicel, 
clothed with minute spreading hairs. бераз and petals 2 mm. in length, connivent, 
sparsely hairy. Lateral sepals obliquely ovate, acuminate. Petals rather obliquely 
spathulate, rounded at the apex. Jip twice as long as the sepals, spreading almost 
parallel with the much-curved ovary and column, divided at the apex into two 
divergent obtuse lobules, the margins ciliate except towards the tapering base; upper 
surface with a stout central callus projecting into the sinus. Column 1 mm. long, 
arched forwards and overlapping the base of the anther. Rsstellum wide and prom- 
inent, projecting over the fertile stigma. Апйег sub-quudrate, 2.eelled, the dividing 
Аки: Roy, Вот. Gard., Calc, Vor, IX. 
