174 OPHRY РЕЖ. 
This species which appears to be intermediate between 0. spathulata and О. Chusua, may 
possibly, as Sir Joseph Hooker suggests, be a hybrid, with the solitary leaf of the former and tho 
flowers of the latter. 
5. Овснів SPATHULATA Reichb. f. ex Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, |127, 
Whole plant 5 to 20 em. high. Stem proceeding from a thin rhizome, with 
one or two loose blunt tubular sheaths at the base. Leaf usually solitary and at the 
base of the stem, with rarely a second one higher up,. oval to narrow-elliptic or 
spathulate, tapering into a long petiole; blade 2:5 to 7:5 em. long. Асар? rather stout. 
Spike short, 1-4 flowered. Flowers purple or occasionally white, about 13 mm. in diam.; 
floral bract longer than the flower, leaf-hke, lanceolate, sub.acute. Srpals sub equal; the 
dorsal ovate, obtuse, conniving with the petals to form a hood; lateral. pair oblong, 
sub-acute, spreading. Petals shorter than the sepals, faleately elliptic, obtuse. Lip 
equalling the sepals, broadly elliptic or obovate, entire or obscurely 3-lobed, tho 
edges crenulate; upper surface slightly pubescent, with many shallow grocves extend- 
ing from the base nearly to the apex; spur stout, obtuse, about half as long as the 
ovary. Ром pyritorm, a little longer than the rather stout tapering caudicles; 
glands elliptic enclosed in a pouch formed from the rostellum.  S/aminodes small, 
rugulose. Stigmas distinct, elliptic, widened at the lower end and attached to the 
margins of the column. Hook. f. Ic. Pl. t. 2197A; King & Pantling in Ann. В, 
Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 501, t. 400; Кіп, Orch. Gen, and Sp, i, 155; Rolfe in Journ. 
Шап, Soc. xxxvi (1905), 50. Cymnadenia spathulata Lindl. Gen. and Sp. 280; Royle 
TH. Him. Bot. 367. 
Kedarkánta іп Garhwál 11,000 to 12,000 feet, Rayle; Ganges Valley below 
Gangotri between 12,000 and 13,000 feet, Duthie Nos. 194, 615; Кай Valley іп М. 
Kumaon at 15,000 teet, Duthie No. 5998. Flowers from June til August, Found 
also on the Sikkim Himalaya and extending through Е. Tibet to China. 
41. Habenaria Willd. 
Terrestrial Icafy herbs with undivided or lobed tubers or fleshy root-fibres. Leaves 
not plaited, their bases sheithing. Flowers in racemes or spikes. Sepals subequal, the 
dorsal often connivent with the petals to form a hood over the column; the lateral pair 
spreading, reflexed or deflexed, or sometimes erect. Petals smaller or larger than the 
sepals, entire or 2-cleft. Lm adnate to the base of the column, entire, 3-lobed or 3- 
partite, its base spurred. Anther-cclls adnate to the front of the short and usually broad 
column, discrete, rarely touching, parallel or divergent below, their bases often prolonged 
into tubes containing the caudicles, Staminodes represented by two granular more or less 
conspicuous projections on the outer side of each anther-cell, rarely elongate. Pollinia 
two, clavate or pyriform, usually grooved, sometimes 2-partite; caudicles varying im 
length, sometimes absent; glands exposed, flat and discoid, or elliptic or globular, or 
elongate with truncate ends (conjoined and enclosed within processes of the 2-lobed 
rostellum іп A. secundiflora). Stigmas two, distant from each other or united io form 
