199 OPHRYDEJE. 
99. HABENARIA ARCUATA Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 155. 
Stem very thick, leafy. Leaves 7۰5 to 10 cm., oblong-lanceolate, subacute, with 
sheathing bases, upper lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate. Spike broad, many-flowered ; floral 
bracts herbaceous, linear-lanceolate, the lower ones much longer than the slender curved 
ovaries, Flowers large, white. Sepals 9 mm. long; dorsal cucullate, beaked ; lateral pair 
larger, oblong, obtuse, 3-nerved, deflexed. Petals small, linear, 1-nerved, membranous. Lip 
twice as long as the sepals, auricled at the base, puberulous, margins reflexed. Spur 5 
to 6:3 em. long, incurved, acute. Anther large, broad, cells divergent, tubes erect ; pollinia 
with short stout caudicles; glands very large, ovate ; rostellum broad, flat, acute, Platanthera 
arcuata Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch, 289; Krnzl. Orch. Gen. and Sp. i, 633. 
Mussoorie, Royle; Naini Tal, Colonel Davidson. The single specimen in the Kew 
Herbarium representing this species is the Naim Tal one, and this was gathered in the 
month of June. 
23. HABENARIA viRIDIS R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, v, 192. 
Tubers ovoid, often lobed. Stem 7:5 to 10 cm. high. Leaves usually three or four 
narrowly oblong, acute or obtuse, smaller upwards, many-nerved. Flowers 9 to 13 mm. 
long. Spike lax; bracts green, exceeding the ovaries, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate. 
Sepals and petals green striped with dark red. Sepals sub-connivent, ovate-oblong, 
concave, obtuse and cucullate at their apices, Dorsal 7-nerved, the lateral pair obliquely 
ovate. Petals erect, linear-oblong, equalling the dorsal вера]. Lip linear-oblong, pale 
brown, widening towards the tridentate apex, the central tooth often very small; spur very 
short, obtuse. Anther with an emarginate apex, the cells diverging; pollinia broadly 
ellipsoid, composed of large grains; caudicles short, attached to minute glands, each of 
which is concealed in a pouch formed by the rostellum, as in the genus Orchis, Syme 
in Engl. Bot. (ed. 3), ix 105, t. 1462; Hook. f, Student's Fl. Brit. Islands 376. 
Peristylus viridis Lindl. Syn. Brit. FL, ed. 2, 261; Gen. and Sp. Orch, 299; Rolfe in 
Tourn. Linn, Soc, xxxvi (1903), 54, Satyrium viride Linn. Sp. Pl. 944. Orchis viridis 
vrantz Stirp. Austr, ed. 2, 491. Gymnadenia viridis A. Rich. in Mém. Mus, Par. iv 57. 
Platanthera viridis Lindl. Syn, Brit. FL, ed. i, 261; Reichb. Fl. Germ. xiii, 129, t. 434. 
Himantoglossum viride Reichb. Fl. Germ. Excurs, 190. Ceeloglossum viride Hartm, Handb. 
Skand, Fl, ed. 1, 329, 
This interesting addition to the flora of British India was discovered in July 1901 
at Nai Gund near the Kamri Pass in N. Kashmir, by Inayat Khén, formerly Head 
Plant collector to the Botanical Department of N. India, No. 25387. It was previously 
known from Northern Europe (including Britain), Siberia, Dahuria, China and 
N. America, ` | 
We 141, Habenaria viridis Б. Br. А plant,—of natural size, Fig. I, side view 
y single flower ; 2, dorsal sepal; 3, front view of flower, with the sepals removed; 4, 
side view of ditto, with sepals and petals removed ; 5, pollinia;—a// enlarged. 
24. HATENARIA FA'LAX 
t. 428 King & Pantling іп Ann. R. Bot, Gard. Calc. viii, 325, 
