HABENARIA. 191 
Whole plant 1 to 3 dm. high. Tubers small. Stem with two tublar bulunt sheaths at 
the base. Leaf solitary, 39:5 to 15 em. long, narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, acute or 
acuminate, tapering slightly to the short sheath. Peduncle long, with a single linear. 
lanceolate acuminate bract. Spike 3:5 to 10 cm. long, laxly or densely flowered ; 
Лот bract equalling or shorter than the slightly decurved. ovary. Flowers small, green 
Sepals about equal, oblong or ovate-lanceolate, the dorsal connivent with the petals to 
form a hood; lateral pair erect, not connivent, Petals ovate-oblong, obtuse, variable as 
to size, Lip not much longer than the sepals, flat, rather fleshy, hastately 3-lobed from 
about the middle; side lobes oblong, obtuse, diverging; apical lobe longer than the side 
lobes, oblong, obtuse, deflexed; spur saceste, much shorter than the sepals, 2-ribbed 
inside, Column rather long. Anther-cells nearly parallel, but diverging at the base, 
without tubes. Pollinia obovoid or clavate; caudicles short, tapering to the small cordate 
glands. Staminodes small, globular, attached about half-way up on the outer sides of the 
anther-cells. Stigmas two, transversely oblong, touching by their ends and forming a 
band below the anther-cells. Herminium fallax Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7412; Hook. f. Ic. 
РІ. 2198; Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 129. Peristylus fallax Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 298; Krnzl, 
Orch. Gen. and Sp. i, 512. 
Near Mussoorie 6,000 to 7,000 feet, Duthie No. 21770; Хас Tiba in Garhwal 8,000 
to 9,000 feet, Mackinnon, Duthie Nos. 21769, 22987; Gori Valley in Kumaon, Duthie’s 
collector No. 24058. Flowers during July and August. 
95. HABENARIA Ешваветнж, Duthie in Journ. As, бос. Beng. lxxi, part II, 44. 
Height of plant 2 to 4:5 dm., glabrous. Tubers ovoid. Leaves 2 or 3, approximate 
towards the base of the stem, with one or two loose sheaths below, and a few lanceo- 
late and finely acuminate bracts above them, 6 to 12 cm. long and 1 to 2 сш. in breadth, 
lanceolate, acuminate or the lowest one often obtuse, amplexicaul at the base, midrib 
prominent beneath. Spike long, slender, many-flowered. Flowers small, sessile, rather 
crowded, deflexed, green; floral bract lanceolate. acuminate, about half as long the 
curved beaked ovary. Sepals and petals erect, connivent; dorsal ovate, concave; the 
lateral pair obliquely ovate, obtuse. Petals a little longer than the sepals, obliquely 
ovate, obtuse. Lip longer than the sepals, 3-lobed to the middle, fleshy, the basal 
portion trough-shaped; lateral lobes linear, spreading, their margins gibbous at the 
base; midlobe oblong, obtuse, as long as the lateral pair but broader. Spur one-fifth 
the length of the ovary, ovate or obovate. Anther-cells parallel; pollinia obovate, curved, 
attached by a short eaudicle to an oyal gland. Stigmatic processes clavate. Staminodes 
rather large. Cybele Falc. in Lindl. in Veg. Kingd. 1932. С. alpina Fale. MSS. 
Simla Hills between 9,000 and 10,000 feet, Edgeworth, Lady E. Babingion-Smith; 
Mussoorie Hills from 6,000 to 9,000 feet, Edgeworth, Mackinnon, Duthie Nos. 21766, 
22990; Jumna Valley in Garhwál, Duthie No. 524; Pharkia at 11,000 feet, Edgeworth ; 
Naini Tal at 7,000 feet, Strachey & Winterbottom No. 82, Colonel Davidson; Rálam 
Valley at 12,000 feet, S'/rachey & Winterbottom (named Herminium fallaz). Flowers 
in August, It has been found also on the Eastern Himalaya at Chumbi, and iu 
E. Tibet. | | 
This species is very similar at first sight to И. fallar, with which it has often been confounded, 
The leaves, however, are never solitary, the flowers are smaller, more crowded and they are deflexed; 
