HABENARIA. 187 
тейехей ovate-elliptic, subacute. Petals longer than the dorsal sepal, erect, linear, 
blunt, l-nerved. Jip longer than the sepals, lanceolate, blunt, entire, 9-nerved ; spur 
spreading, slender, cylindric, longer than the slender beakless ovary, dilated towards 
the apex and slightly curved. Amther-cells diverging at the base, tubes none; pollinia 
broadly elliptie-clavate, faintly grooved, the caudicles rather short; glands large, 
elongate, placed on either side of the entrance to the spur and reaching to the stigma. 
Stigmas conjoined into a small transversely oblong body situated on the upper margin of 
the entrance to the spur. Capsule 10 to 11 mm. long. King & Pantling in Ann. R. 
Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 814, t. 412. 
Sosa forest in E. Kumaon between 9,000 and 10,000 feet, Duthie No. 3405, 
Flowers during July and August. Found also in Sikkim, and at Chumbi in Tibet. 
This species bears а close general resemblance to JT. (аби, but the column is quite 
different, the stigma being single and transverse; the polliniar glands are also very differently 
shaped. 
18. HABENARIA URCEOLATA Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 73, t. 30, 
Whole plant 5 to 15 cm. high. Tubers narrow, elongate. Stem slender, curved, 
with a single sheath at the base. Leaf usually solitary, from below the middle of the 
stem, 5 to 10 cm. long, narrowly elliptic-oblong, obtuse or subacute, tapering to the 
long narrow tubular sheath, Peduwnele with several distant bracts, the lowermost often 
leaflike. Raceme 1'6 to 5 ст. long, decurved, rather laxly flowered, secund. Flowers 
8 mm. long, longer than the ovaries, narrowly campanulate, white; floral bract longer than 
the shortly stalked tumid ovary. Sepals erect, nearly equal, dorsal not connivent with 
the petals, elliptic, blunt, lateral pair oblong, subacute. Petals as long as the sepals, free, 
faleately oblong, blunt, tapering slightly to the base. р about as long as the sepals 
and petals, decurved beyond the middle, oblong, slightly concave, tapering and becoming 
thicker towards the apex, minutely hispid near the base; spur shorter than the sepals, 
inflated above the constricted neck. Anther-cells elongate, approximate but not touching, 
parallel; pollinia ellipsoid, composed of large granules; glands about as long as the short 
caudicles, acute at one end. WStaminodes filiform, parallel to the  anther-eells and 
exceeding them in length, their apices free. Stigmas conjoined, large, occupying the 
whole of the anterior surface of the column below the glands of the pollinia. Hook. £. 
Fl Br. Ind. vi, 165; King & Pantling in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Cale. viii, 316, t. 
415. Diphylax urceolata Hook. f. Ic. Pl, 1865; Krnzl Orch. Gen. and Sp. i, 599. 
Northern Kumaon in the district of Byáns 11,000 to 12,000 feet, Duthie No. 6003. 
Flowers during August. Found also in Sikkim and on the frontiers of Nepal and 
Tibet. 
19. HABENARIA Ерввчовтнп Hook. f. ex Collett КІ, Siml, 504, fig. 166. 
Height of plant 3 to 7:5 dm. Tubers oblong or sub-globose, Stem rather stout, 
leafy, its base clothed with a few short loose sheaths, of which the upper one is usually 
sub-foliaceous. Leaves 3:7 to 10 em. long, the upper ones diminishing in size, ovate or 
oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, usually rather fleshy, the main nerves prominent 
beneath. Spike 775 to 25 em, long, many-flowered, rachis stout, Flowers rather crowded, 
Ann. Вот, Bor. Gard., Оліс., Vor, IX. 
