HABENARIA. 179 
arranged in a compact secund raceme; bracts leaflike, longer than the flowers, 
Sepals green, their margins pale; dorsal erect, broadly lanceolate, obtuse, 3.nerved: 
the lateral pair narrower, spreading, subfalcate, mucronate on the back below the 
reflexed tips. Petals forming a hood with the dorsal sepal, falcately oblong, obtuse, 
white. Дїр longer than the lateral sepals, 3-partite, pure white; midlobe linear, қ 
little longer than the deeply pectinate side lobes. Spur longer than the ovary, stout, 
funnel-shaped at the base, its apex curving outwards.  Aníher-cells distant ; pollinia 
bipartite, each attached by a short slender caudicle to the flat oval gland, the 
caudicles supported by vertical flattened hyaline projections of the rostellum. Stigmatic 
processes 4 mm. long, linear-clavate, stout, tilted upwards, grooved along their upper 
surfaces. Capsule sessile, fusiform. strongly ribbed. Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch, 321; 
Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 137 (in part); Krnzl in Engl. Jahrb. xvi, 193 (in part); 
Orch. Gen. and Sp. i, 405 (in part, and excl. var, artetina); King & Pantling in 
Ann, В. Всё, Gard. Cale. viii, 310 (in part, and excl. + 406). Collett FI. Siml, 501. 
Н. Gerardiana Wall. Cat. 7031. Orchis pectmata Smith Exot. Bot. ii, 77, t. 99. 
Chamba district of the Punjab Himalaya at about 4,000 feet, Lace No. 1815: 
Simla Hills, Lady Dalhousie, Т. Thomson, Collett, etc. ; Mussoorie Hills 5,000 to 7,000 
feet, Duthie Nos. 527, 21753, Mackinnon; Lansdowne in British Garhwál 4,000 to 5,000 
feet, Roberts; Kumaon between 5,000 and 7,000 feet, Strachey & Winterbottom 
No. 45, Colonel Davidson, Duthie Nos, 3409, 24056, Flowers during July and August. 
It extends eastwards to Nepal. | 
This is rather a rare species, as compared with И. ensifolia. Both these species turn. black 
when dried, and are then sometimes rather difficult to distinguish, but when fresh they should not 
be confounded. 
Рілте 130. Habenaria pectinata Don, Portion of plant,—of natural size, Fig, 1, front 
view of single flower; 2, side view of ditto, with the sepals and petals removed; 3, front 
view of column; 4, anther (spread out), showing the stigmatic and rostellar processes; 5, 
pollinia ;—-all enlarged. 
5. HABENARIA ENSIFOLIA Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7080. 
Tubers elongate. Stem 6 to 75 dm. high, robust, leafy, lower portion bearing 
several long acute tubular sheaths. Leaves distributed chiefly towards the upper portion 
of the stem, 7:5 to 15 em. long, oblong to linear-lanceolate, acuminate, amplexicaul at 
the base, strongly 3-nerved, diminishing in size upwards. Raceme 1 to 2 dm. long. 
Flowers green, 91 to 3'8 cm. across; floral bracts leaflike, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 
much longer than the rather slender and straight ovaries. Sepals unequal, erect, their 
tips recurved; dorsal lanceolate; the lateral pair rather wider, subfaleate and acute. 
Pe:als forming a hood with the dorsal sepal, narrowly and falcately oblong, obtuse or 
acute, pale green, ciliolate on their outer margins, Дїр a little longer than the sepals, 
3-lobed pale green; margins of side lobes deeply pectinate; midlobe rather shorter, 
linear; spur laterally compressed, dilated towards the apex, about as long as the ovary, 
sigmoid or geniculate. Anther-cells divergent, elongate. Pollinia narrowly elliptic, 
grooved, their caudicles as long as themselves, slender and curved; glands minute, 
discoid. Stigmatie processes linear, elongate, divergent. Capsule nearly sessile, fusi- 
form, thickly ribbed. Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 821; Collett Fl. Siml. 504, fig. 165; 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Gan», Carc, Vor. IX. 
