186 ОРНВУРЕЛ. 
16, HABENARIA Аттсшзохт Reichb. f, in Trans. Linn. бос, Ser. 2, Bot. iii, 
113. 
Tubers about 9 ст, long, rather narrow, often divided at the ends. Leaves two, 
near the base of the tall scape, subopposite, 4—6 сш. long and about as wide, sub- 
orbicular, with cordate sheathing bases, cuspidate at the apex, not margined, thick, 
dark green above and with pale-coloured blotches, uniformly paler beneath. Spike 5—8 
em, long ; bracts of peduncle small, lanceolate, acuminate; floral bracts shorter than the 
ovary, lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers crowded, subsecund, erect, 8 mm. in diam., yellow- 
ish-green. Sepals and petals about equal in length; dorsal sepal erect, concave, 
ovate, obtuse, 3-nerved ; the lateral ones reflexed, obliquely lanceolate, acute. Petals 
erect, faleately ovate-lanceolate, 1-пегуе4, auricled at the base in front. Zip a 
little longer than the sepals, 3-partite above the base; segments filiform, the two 
lateral ones spreading and recurved, narrower than the deflexed mid-segment. Spur 
variable in length, but always much shorter than the ovary. Anther broad, cells 
nearly parallel; tubes very short, incurved. РоПйиа obovate, caudicles very short, 
glands small. Stigmatic processes thick and prominent.  Zosfellum minute. Ovary fusi- 
form, curved. Hook. f, Fl, Br. Ind. vi, 152; Boiss, Fl. Or. Suppl. 370; Krantzlin 
in Englers Bot. Jahrb. xvi, 154; Orch. Gen. and Sp. i, 345. H. brachyphylla Aitch. 
& Hemsl. in Journ, Linn, Soc. xix, 118 (not of Krüntzlin). 
Mussoorie range, between 6,000 and 7,000 feet, Mackinnon [Duthie’s Nos. 21752 
and 22991 (5)]; Nag Tiba in Garhwál, 9 to 10,000 feet, Duthie’s collector No. 22991 (а); 
Kumaon, 9 to 10,000 feet, Duthie; flowering during July and August. This species 
extends westwards to Murree, Kashmir, the Kurram Valley, Afghanistan and Waziris- 
tan. 
Var. Josephi Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 152. Much smaller than 'the type. 
Leaves 2:5 to 3:5 em. long, not cuspidate at the apex. Spike few-flowered. Flowers 
greenish, King  & Pantling in Ann. R. Bot, Gard. Cale. viii, 311, t. 408. 
H. Josephi, Reichb. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. le. 114. 
Northern Kumaon in the Kali Valley 9 to 11,000 feet, Duthie Nos. 3419, 6002, 
flowering during July and August. Found also in W. Nepal in the Nampa Gadh up 
to 12,000 feet Duthie No. 6002(а), extending eastwards to Sikkim up to eievations 
between 12 and 14,000 feet. 
PrarE 138. Habenaria Aitehisoni Reichb. f, А plant,—of natural size. Fig. 1, front 
view of flower ; 2, side view of ditto; 3, column, showing the anther, staminodes, rostel- 
lum and stigmatic processes; 4, pollinia ;—all enlarged. 
17. HABENARIA STENANTHA Hook. f. Fl Br. Ind. Vi, 158. 
Height of plant 3 to 6 dm, with no tuber, the roots thick and fleshy. Stem 
stout, sheathed at the base. Leaves three or more, 1 to 2°25 dm. long, the lower 
are larger, obovate to oblong-lanceolate, acute or subacute ; upper ач of stem 
bearing lanceolate acuminate bracts 1 to 2 cm. long. Spike 1:25 to 995 dm. 
en laxly many-flowered, Flowers 1:6 to 2 em, across, green; floral bract linear- 
anceolate, equalling or shorter than the shortly stalked ovary. Sepals unequal, 
3 nerved; the dorsal erect, concave, broadly ovate, blunt; lateral pair smaller 
