HABENARIA. 177 
stalked ovary, compressed, 2-ridged, upturned. Column stout. Anther-cells erect, distant, 
parallel, narrow, with long tubes; pollinia oblong, with long slender curved caudicles 
attached to minute glands.  Síaminodes ovate, rugulose, on the outside of each anther- 
cell and stigma. Sigmas two, oblong, with slightly divergent blunt apices, placed 
below the anthers and at the margins of the month of the spur. Capsule linear- 
oblong. Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 184; in Ann. В. Bot. Gard. Cale. v, t. 95; 
King & Pantling in Ann. В. Bot. Gard. Cale. viii, 308, t. 404. Krantzlin ia 
Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvi, 162; Orch. Gen. and Sp. i, 358. 
N.W. India, Royle; Mussoorie 5 to 6,000 feet, Duthie, Mackinnon [Duthie's 
No. 22980(a)]; below Mussoorie 4,000 feet, Gollan; below Naini Tal 3,000 feet, 
С. W. Hope. Flowers in September. It extends eastwards to Bengal, Sikkim, Assam 
and the Naga Hills. 
2. HABENARIA DIGITATA Lindl, Gen. and Sp. Orch. ۰ 
Height of plant 3 to 5 dm, Stem stout, cylindrical, lower portion clothed with 
close-fitting sbeaths. Leaves 4 to 6 cm. long by 3 to 4 em. broad, collected chiefly 
towards the middle of the stem, broadly lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
3-nerved, the edges much undulate. Raceme laxly many-flowered, about 1 dm. Jong, 
elongating in fruit, Flowers subsecund, about 13 mm. in diam., green; floral bract 
narrowly lanceolate, longer than the slender ovary, pale-margined. Sepals unequal, 
the dorsal one erect, suborbicular, its apex bluntly acuminate and recurved, minutely 
pustulate on the back; lateral pair rather longer, deflexed, subfalcate, with slender 
filiform recurved tips. Petals deeply 2-partite; segments linear, fleshy, white towards 
the base and with slender recurved green tips. Jip 3-partite, the lateral segments a 
little longer than tke petals; midlobe linear, straight, longer than the decurved lateral, 
ones, Spur shorter than the ovary, laterally compressed and clavate towards the apex. 
Anther-cells distant, divaricate, with prominent incurved tubes. Staminodes globose, 
tuberculate, bright green, placed outside and at the base of each anther-lobe; polliniz 
2, obliquely ovate іп outline; caudicles slender, dilated towards their bases and attached 
to small ovate brownish-yellow glands. Stigmatic processes subcylindrical, blunt, recurved, 
the entrance to the spur lying between their bases. Dalz, & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 267; 
Krantzlin in Engl. Jahrb. xvi, 67; Orch. Сеп, and Sp. i, 270; Hook. f, Fl. Br. 
Ind. vi, 134 (excl. H. trinervia Wight). H. Gibsoni Hook. f. Ic. Pl. 2319; Fl. Br. Ind. 
vi, 135. Bonatea punduana Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7063, В. benghalensis Griff. in Calc. 
Journ. Nat, Hist. іу, 382; B. herbacea Wall. MSS. 
Kashmir, Falconer; Dehra Dun in sà] forests, Mackinnon (Duthie's Хо, 22728), 
Kansrao (Dehra Dun), Duthie’s collector No. 21177 ; Mussoorie Hills, Hugel, Duthie, 637 
(1877), Mackinnon (Duthie’s Nos. 21758, 22178);  Bageswar in Kumaon, Duthie’s 
collector No. 24063. Flowers during July. It extends eastwards to Bengal and 
Assam and southwards to Bombay and S. India and Tenasserim; also found in N. 
Australia. 
Н. trinervia Wight, which in the “ Flora of British India" has been reduced to this species, although 
closely allied, differs sufficiently to justify its separation. The leaves of the former are more scattered and 
extend higher up the stem towards the raceme; the lateral sepals are erect and have not the slender almost 
filiform tips of H. digitata; the lobes of the petals are not decurved, and the three lobes of the lip are nearly 
parallel and about equal in length. The flowers of H. digitata have a peculiarly pungent odour resembling 
that of Valeriana W allichit. г 
Axx. Roy Вот. Garp, Сл1с., Vor. 1X. 
