184 OPHRYDES. 
the ovary, slender, curved. Anther-tubes long, flexuous; pollinia ovate, obliquely attached 
to the long slender flexuous caudicles; dises small, flat, Staminodes large and prom- 
inent. Stigmatic processes globose. Capsule with a long slender beak, curved, ridges 
thick and prominent, Hook. f. Fl Br, Ind. vi, 141; Krantzlin in Engler’s Bot. Jahrb. 
xvi, 202; Orch. Gen. and Sp. i, 421. 
Dehra Dun, Mackinnon (Duthie's No. 21765); Garhwál and Kumaon, up to 5,500 
feet, Royle, Faiconer, Duthie, Mackinnon, etc. : 
PLATE 135. Habenaria pubescens Lindl. А plant,—of natural size, Fig. 1, а single 
flower; 2, back view of ditto; 3, front view of column, showing the base of the lip, the 
stigmas, the staminodes and the glands of tne pollinia; 4, pollinia;—a4 enlarged. 
13, HABENARIA FURCIFERA Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 319. 
Whole plant 25 to 4:5 dm. high. Stem sheathed at the base; leafy below the 
middle, bracteate above. Leaves 65 to 11°5 cm. long, elliptic, acute or acuminate, 
slightly narrowed to the sheathing base. Bracts on the upper portion of the stem 
lanceolate, acuminate, diminishing in size upwards, Raceme 125 to 17:5 cm. long: 
many- but laxly-flowered. Flowers about 13 mm, across from base to apex, green; floral 
bract linear-lanceolate, acuminate, about equalling the ovary. Sepals unequal, the dorsal 
ovate-oblong, obtuse, concave; the lateral pair rather shorter, broadly and faleately 
lanceolate, acute or acuminate, spreading. Petals as long as the dorsal вера], and 
with it forming a hood over the column, oblong, retuse. Jip longer than the sepals, 
irifureate to the base; the lateral segments filiform, diverging, carved, longer than the 
stouter blunt middle one. Spur slender, longer than the ovary, laterally compressed, 
curved at the apex. Anther-cells contiguous, diverging at their bases, their tubes rather 
short; pollinia faleately ovoid, their caudicles slender, slightly curved, attached to 
narrowly oblong glands. Staminodes rather large and broadly oblong. Stigmatic processes 
short. Capsule fusiform, decurved, shortly beaked and with thick ribs, Hook. f. РІ, 
Dr. Ind. vi, 149; Krnzl. in Engl. Bot, Jahrb. xvi, 161; Orch. Gen. and Sp. i, 356; 
King & Pantling in Ann. В. Bot, Gard. Cale. viii, 313, t. 410. H. hamigera Griff. 
in Cale. Journ, Nat. Hist. iv, 380, t. 20, H. tenuicornis Wall. MSS. 
Dehra Dun, Mackinnon, Duthie Nos. 9314, 2323, 21754, Gamble No, 23178, 
Siwalik range, /uthie’s collector No. 24168; Mussoorie hills 4,000 to 6,000 feet, Royle, 
Edgeworth, Mackinnon, Duthie Nos. 21754, 22992. Flowers during August. It extends 
eastwards to Bengal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Upper Burma. 
14. HABENARIA MARGINATA Colebr. in Hook. Fl. Exot. t. 136. 
Subscapigerous, Tubers small, narrow, cylindric. Leaves few, subradical, sessile, 
2 to 125 em. long, oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse, margins pale yellow. Scape 1 to 15 
dm. long; sheaths erect, lanceolate. Spike 5 to 15 cm. long, many-flowered; floral bract 
nearly equalling the ovaries, with pale ciliolate margins. Flowers 1:5 сш. in diam., 
greenish-yellow. Dorsal sepal erect, broadly ovate; lateral faleately oblong-lanceolate 
spreading or deflexed, 3—5-nerved, Petals ialeately oblong, erect, forming a hood with 
the dorsal sepal, 2-nerved. Lip longer than the sepals, 3-partite; lateral segments 
narrowed and with filiform poinis, mid-segments shorter and broader, with the margins 
