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1. ORCHIS LATIFOLIA, Linn. Sp. РІ. 941. 
Tubers palmate. Stem 3-9 dm. high, usually fistular, leafy upwards. Leaves many, 
егесі, up to 12 em. long, oblong linear-oblong or lanceolate, tip concave, Spike 2*5 
to 15 em. long, cylindric, dense-flowered. Flowers about 1:8 cm. from the apex of the 
dorsal sepal to the tip of the lip, purple (occasionally lilac or white); floral bract 
linear-lanceolate, acuminate, usually much exceeding the flowers. Sepals and petals acute 
or obtuse; the lateral pair of sepals ovate, reflexed. Гр oblong or rhomboid, entire 
crenate or very obtusely 3-lobed, usually spotted with darker purple, sides deflexed; spur 
stout, equalling or shorter than the ovary, straight or curved. Royle Ill. 367 ; Reichb. f. 
Fl Germ. xii. t. 50; Boiss. Fl. Or. v, 71; Hook, f, Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 127; Collett 
Fl. Siml. 499; Krnzl, Orch. Gen. and Sp. i, 146. 0. latifolia В indica Lindl. Gen. 
and Sp. Orch, 260. О. Hatagirea Don. Prod. 23; Wall. Cat. 7062. 
Abundant throughout the Western Himalaya at elevations between 8,000 and 
12,000 feet. Flowers from June to September according to the elevation and aspect. 
It extends as far East as Nepal, and westwards from Afghanistan to N. Africa and 
Europe; also in N. Asia. 
According to Lindley, 0. Hatagirea represents the Indian form of this variable species. It has entirely 
the habit of the European О. latifolia and, like it, produees a smaller-flowered form, which may be compared 
to О. cruenta. Its Пр is sometimes rounded and not at all lobed, and sometimes slightly 3-lobed. 16 also 
varies considerably in the shape of the leaves and in the colour of the flowers. The leaves of the Himalayan 
form are usually not at all spotted. 
2. ORCHIS HABENARIOIDEs, King & Pantling in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Cale. viii, 
302, t. 401. 
Height of plant 3 to 5 dm.; ¿er digitate. Stem clothed at the base with 
unequal tubular sub-acute sheaths. Leaves four or five, scattered, sessile, 5 to 19:5 em. 
long, elliptic-oblong to linear-oblong, sub-acute, slightly narrowed to the rather long 
sheath. Spike 4 to 12 em, long, cylindric, densely flowered. Flowers about 7 mm. 
across, pink or occasionally white; floral bract longer than the curved beaked ovary, 
herbaceous. Sepals sub-equal, broadly ovate, puberulous, the dorsal forming a hood 
with the petals; lateral pair spreading and somewhat reflexed, acute. Petals shorter 
than the sepals, rhombic-orbicular, minutely apiculate. Lip adnate to the base of the 
column; the apex broad and with a shallow terminal lobe, the upper surface quite 
smooth; spur as long as the ovary, laterally compressed, curved and slightly clavate, 
puberulous inside. Column broad. Anther-cells parallel; pollinia obliquely elliptic-obovate ; 
eaudicles short, without pouches; glands Egulate, truncate. Staminodes large, suborbicular, 
rugulose, lying on either side of the caudicles. Stigmas united into a narrow transverse 
band heneath the opening to the spur. Capsule 1 cm. long, ovate-oblong. Gymnadenia 
cylindrostachya Lindl, in Wall. Cat. 7056; Gen. and. Sp. Orch. . 278; Royle Ill. 367. 
G. Orchidis and violacea Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 272. - Platanthera Orchidis Lindl. 
in Wall. Cat. 7039A. Habenaria Orchidis Hook. f. Fl, Br. Ind. vi 142, Peisrtylus 
Orchidis Krnzl. Orch, Gen. and Sp. i, 515. 
