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reflexed. Spur about аз long as the curved ovary, laterally compressed at the apex. 
Anther-clels distant; tubes funnel-shaped, short, spreading.  Pollinia with short geniculate 
caudicles, glands rather large, triangular, flattened. Staminodes elongated, Stigmatic 
processes long, adnate to the base of the column for two-thirds of their length. Capsule 
l'4 cm., fusiform, turgid, curved. Lindl, Gen. and Sp. Orch. 320; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb. Fl. 268; Griff. Notul. iii, 371; Іс. Pl. As. t. 341; Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. 
iv, 382; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 150; Krüntzlin in Engler’s Bot. Jahrb. 164; Orch. 
Gen. and Sp. i, 360; Collett Fl. Siml. 504. Platanthera marginata Lindl, in Wall. Cat. 
7038, Habenaria promensis Wall. Cat. 7033; Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 320, Orchis 
mysorensis and clavata Herb. Heyne. 
Simla, 6,000 feet, Collett; Siwalik range and Dehra Dun, Duthie’s collector 
No. 24172; Garhwál and Kumaon up to 11,000 feet, Falconer, Strachey & 
Winterbottom Мо. 38, Duthie, Mackinnon, etc., flowering in August. It extends westwards 
to Simla, Chamba and Kashmir, and eastwards to Bengal, and grows as a weed 
in the Calcutta Botanic Garden; it is also found in Burma and in Western and 
Southern India. 
РгАтв 136. Habenaria marginata Colebr. А plant,—of natural size. Fig. 1, side 
view of single flower; 2, front view of ditto with the sepals removed; 3, lip seen 
from below; 4, side view of column with spur and ovary; 5, pollinia ;—-all enlarged. 
15. HABENARIA DIPHYLLA Dalz. in Hook. Journ, Bot. ii (1850), 262, 
Tubers small, elongate or globose. Leaves radical, usually two, 2°5 to 5 em. in 
diam., orbicular, cordate, margined, rather fleshy. Scape 1 to 2°5 dm., slender, matniy 
flowered, the peduncle with distant sheathing lanceolate acuminate bracts; floral bract, 
much shorter than the slender curved ovaries. Flowers distant, spreading, white, 
tinged with green. Sepals subequal; dorsal erect, 5 mm. long, ovate, concave, acute; 
lateral pair deflexed, obliquely ovate, acuminate, 3-nerved. Petals linear, white, 
as long as, and forming a hood with, the dorsal вера]. Lip much longer than 
the sepals, 3-partite, segments filiform, the lateral pair spreading and spirally 
twisted at the tips, mid-segment shorter, deflexed; spur 8 mm. long, shorter 
than the ovary, inflated towards its acute apex. Anther broad, its cells distant, tubes 
very short; pollinia dimidiate-ovate, obliquely attached to caudicles, equal to them іп 
length; glands small, subglobose ; staminodes large, petaloid, sub-patent, with incurved 
tips, Stigmatic processes elongate, clavate, adnate to the mouth of the spur. Rostellum 
obscure. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 268; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 151; Krnzl in 
Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvi, 154; Orch. Gen. and Sp. i, 346. H. Jerdoniana, Wight le, 
1715. H. Sutlei Reichb. f. in Linnea xxv, 229. Platanthera canarensis Lindl. in 
Pl Hohen, exsicc. Хо, 142, Liparis diphyllos Nimmo in Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 252. 
Dehra Dun, Mackinnon (Duthie’s No, 25411); Garhwál, Falconer, Flowers during 
August. It is found also in Eastern Bengal and Chota Nagpur, and from the 
‘Konkan to Malabar. Д 
Prarg 137. Habenaria diphylla Dalz. А plant,—of natural size. Fig. 1, single 
flower; 2, ditto, with sepals, petals and portion of lip removed; 3, front view of 
column ;—ali enlarged, 
Any. Вох. Вот. Garn, Carc, Vor. IX. 
