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11. HABENARIA COMMELINIFOLIA Wall. in Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 325. 
Whole plant 6 to 9 dm. high, Tubers ellipsoid or cylindrical. Lower portion of 
stem bearing а few loose sheaths. Leaves scattered, 8 to 15 cm. long and 2 to 3 сш. 
in breadth, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, sub-coriaceous, acute and often sub-spinescent 
at the apex, margins white. Bracts between the leaves and the spike linear-lanceolate, 
acuminate, ciliolate. Spike 1 to 2 dm. long, many- and laxly-flowered; floral bracts 
erect, nearly equalling in length the long beaked ovary, scaberulous on both surfaces and 
ciliolate along the edges. Flowers 1:4 to 2 cm. in diam., white, inodorous, Sepals 
scaberulous; dorsal small, saccate, with a short recurved beak; lateral pair much shorter, 
hatchet-shaped, beaked, with the veins deeply looped or arched. Petals, unequally oblong, 
smaller than the lateral sepals. Lip divided into three long slender filiform segments, 
2'5 em. from its base to the tip of the mid-segment; lateral segments 3 cm. long, curved 
downwards; mid-segment channelied, longer than the lateral pair, spreading, scaberulous ; 
spur 6 to Т cm. long, slender and curved downwards; its upper portion funnel-shaped 
and nearly white, the apex clavate and green. Anther-cells elongate, distant, diverging at 
the base; the tubes long and straight; pollinia small, oval; caudicles very long, dilated 
upwards, translucent, glands minute. Staminodes seated on the long arms of the column 
and curving round in front of the anther-tubes. Stigmatic processes large, clavate, 
incurved ; rostellum triangular. Ovary including the long slender beak 3 сш. long. Griff, 
Notul. iii, 372; Іс. Pl. As. t, 339; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 143; Krnzl in Engl. Bot. 
Jahrb. xvi, 137; Orch. Gen. and Sp. i, 322. Platanthera commelinifolia Lindl, in Wall. 
Cat. 7097.  Orchis commelinifolia Roxb, Fl. Ind. iii, 451; Grah. Cat. Bomb, РІ. 201. 
О. stylosanthes Herb, Ham. 
Kangra Valley, Edgeworth; near Simla, 6,000 feet, Collett; Siwalik range, Duthie’s 
collector No. 24166; Dehra Dun in open grassy spots, Duthie No. 2067 (1881,) Mackinnon 
(Duthie’s No. 21721); Garhwál 3,000 to 5,000 feet, Falconer, Duthie No, 521; Kumaon, 
Wallich, Royle, Strachey & Winterbottom No. 43; Кай Valley, Duthie’s collector No. 
24054. Flowers during August and September. It extends eastwards to Parasnath and 
Upper Burma, and southwards to Central and S. India, 
Prate 134. Habenaria commelinifolia Wall. A plant (upper and lower portions), —of 
natural size. Fig. l, side view of single flower; 2, ditto with the lateral sepals, the 
petals and lip removed ; 3, front view of column; 4, pollinia ;—a// enlarged. 
19. HABENARIA PUBESCENS Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 322. 
Tubers elongate, stout, often divided, with a few thick and fleshy fibres from their 
bases. Stem about 4 dm. long, clothed at the base with two or three tight-fitting 
sheaths, pubescent. Leaves crowded towards the base of the stem, about 1 dm. long and 
4 cm. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, tapering to their bases, 7 to 9-nerved, nerves not 
prominent; margins undulate, сое. Raceme with a few empty leaf-like bracts at its 
base, 1:3 dm. long, many-flowered, lax, pubescent; floral bracts shorter then the long- 
beaked ovary, ovate, acuminate, ciliolate. Flowers small. Dorsal sepal 3-nerved, erect, 
broadly ovate, a little shorter than the dimidiate ovate obtuse reflexed lateral ones. 
Petals narrowly falcate, longer than the dorsal sepal, and forming an arch with it. Lip 
3-partite, longer than the sepals; segments linear, the lateral ones with filiform tips; the 
midlobe about as long as the lateral ones, blunt, keeled beneath. Spur about as long as 
