178 0۶ 770 Z. 
Puare 128. Habenaria digitata Lindl, A plant,—of natural size. Fig. 1, front view 
of a flower; 2, back view of ditto; 8, side view oi ditto, with the perianth 
removed; 4, column, showing the anther, the pollen tubes and the staminodes; 5, 
pollinia ;—all enlarged. In the plate the name Habenaria digitata has been scored out 
in error. 
3. HABENARIA SUSANNE R. Brown Prod. 819. 
Height of whole plant 6 to 8 dm. Tubers elongate, 6 to 9 сш. long. Stem 
stout, with many blunt funnel-shaped sheaths on its lower portion. Leaves mostly 
on the middle portion of the stem, 5 to 15 cm. long and 3 to © cm. broad, 
ovate-oblong, obtuse; the upper ones bract-like, acuminate, imbricate. Raceme 3 to 5— 
flowered, floral bract longer than the ovary, cucullate, acuminate. Flowers sessile, 
7 to 10 em, in diam., white tinged with greenish-yellow, fragrant. Sepals spread- 
ing, very broad; the dorsal one suborbicular, about 4 cm. in length and breadth ; 
lateral pair sub-quadrately oblong, obtuse, Petals linear-falcate, acute, thick. Lip 
about as long as the sepals, fleshy; side lobes very broad, truncate, deeply pectinate ; 
midlobe linear, spathulate, with recurved edges. Spur very long, more than twice 
the length of the elongate ovary. Anther very broad and large; cells divergent; 
tubes long, adnate {о the sides of the column; pollinia linear, curved, about as 
long as their flexuous caudicles; glands ovoid, fleshy, white. Staminodes linear, 
prominent. Sigmatic processes large, blunt, not projecting; rostellum confluent with 
the face of the column. 
Royle Ill. 367; Blume Biidr. 402; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 137; Collett Fl. 
Siml. 501. H. gigantea Don Prod. 21; Bot. Mag. t. 3374; Grah. Cat. Bomb. РІ. 
201. Platanthera Susanne Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 295; Wight Ie, 920; Dalz. 
& Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 269; Krnzl. Orch. Gen. and Sp. i, 601; Rolfe in Journ. Linn. 
Soc, xxxvi (1903), 57. P. gigantea Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7052. P. robusta Lindl. 
in Wall. Cat. 7036; Gen, and Sp. Orch. 295. Orchis Susanne Linn, sp. РІ. 939. 
0. gigantea Smith Exot. Bot. t. 100. 0. altissima Herb. Ham. 
Simla Hills below 6,000 feet, Lady Dalhousie, Collett; Siwalik range, Royle; 
Mussoorie range below 6,000 feet, Falconer, Mackinnon, Duthie No. 22981; Garhwál, 
3,000 to 5,000 feet, Duthie Nos. 1195, 2066; Kumaon 5,000 to 6,000 feet, Strachey & 
Winterbottom No. 39; near Naini Tal, Colonel Davidson; Kali Valley in E. 
Kumaon, Duthie Nos, 3410, 24062. Flowers during September. It occurs in the hilly 
districts of Bombay and 8, India, also on the Naga and Khasia Hills, extending 
eastwards to Upper Burma and China. 
Prats 129. Habenaria Susanne, R. Br. Upper portion of plant, —of natural size; 
an entire plant,—reduced in size. Fig. 1, side view of flower, with the sepals and 
lateral lobes of lip removed; 2, front view of column; 3, pollinia ;—a/l enlarged. 
4. HABENARIA pectivata Don Prod. Fl. N ep. 24. 
Height of whole plant up to 3 dm. Stem stout, quadrangular, the angles more 
or less winged. Leaves 6 to 8 cm. long and 1°5 to 2 em. broad, ovate-lanceolate, 
acutemine, often recurved at the apex, strongly 3-nerved. Flowers 95 cm. across 
