199 OPHRYDEÆ. 
the shape of the lip also is very different. I have named this plant after Lady Elisabeth Babington 
Smith, who kindly sent me specimens from near Simla in 1898. 
Ртлте 142. Habenaria Elisabethz Duthie. A plant, —of natural size. Fig. 1, side 
view of single flower; 2, front view of ditto (spread out), with the sepals removed; 3, 
side view of lip and spur; 4, pollinia ;—all enlarged. 
96. HABENARIA Lawn Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 163. 
Tubers ellipsoid or globose, Stem 1:5 to 95 dm., slender, with а few short loose 
sheaths below the leaves. Leaves 3 to 5, clustered above the middle of the stem, 7°5 
to 10 em. long, narrowly lanceolate or elliptic, acute, membranous. Spike 5 to 7:5 cm. 
long, slender, narrow. Flowers very small, spreading, white; floral bract ovate-lanceolate 
acuminate, longer than the ovary, membranous, Sepals and petals sub-equal, connivent, 
obtuse. Dorsal sepal elliptic, the lateral sub-falcately linear-oblong. Petals fleshy. ‘Lip 
as long 98 the sepals, broadly and obtusely 3-fid., its claw concave, and with a short 
ciliate ridge at its base; spur small, globose. Anther-cells parallel, tubes none; pollinia 
obovate, the caudicles as long as the pollinia and attached to minute globular glands. 
Staminodes large, petaloid, green tipped with white. Ovary slender, 6 mm. long, curved 
forward at the apex. Peristylus Lawii Wight Ic. 1695; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 970; 
Krnzl. Orch, Gen, and Sp. 510. 
Dehra-Dun, Mackinnon and Duthie’s collectors Nos. 21767, 22727, 23101; below 
Landour (Herb. Cale.) Flowers during July and August. Found also оп Parasnath 
Hill in Behar at an elevation of 4,200 feet, and in the Chanda district of the Central 
Provinces, extending southwards to the Konkan and Mysore. 
Рілте 143. Habenaria Lawii Hook f. А plant,—of natural síz:. Fig. 1, side view 
of single flower; 2, ditto with the sepals and petals removed; 3, column, with lip 
attached; 4, lip, spread out; 5, anther and staminodes (the latter spread out); 6, 
pollinia ;—all enlarged. 
27, HABENARIA GOODYEROIDES Don. Prod. Fl. Nep. 25. 
Height of plant 3 to 6 dm. Тифе’з ellipsoid or oblong, hairy. Lower portion 
of stem with many loose blunt sheaths. Leaves clustered above the middle of the 
stem bat not whorled, 5 to 10 cm. long, ovate or ovate-elliptic, acute, slightly 
narrowed to the shortly sheathed base. Spike 1 to 2 dm., densely flowered, its 
peduncle bearing a few lanceolate acuminate bracts. Flowers subsecund, 8 mm. in diam. 
at the mouth, deflexed by reason of the curved apex of the ovary, white, sweet- 
scented; floral bract narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, about as long as the slender 
ovary. Sepals unequal, tinged with brown, the dorsal broadly ovate-lanceolate, concave, 
conniving with the petals and forming a hood; lateral pair oblong, involute, apicu- 
late. Petals as long as the sepals, trapeziform, blunt. Zip longer than the petals, 
broadly triangular in general outline, the sides rounded, 3-lobed for one-third of its 
length; side lobes linear-oblong, falcate, acute and diverging at the apex, slightly 
longer than the broad blunt midlobe; upper surface with & small elongate depression 
at the base and in front of the minute opening into the spur; spur nearly globular, 
much sherter than the sepals. Column short and broad.  AntAer-cells parallel but not 
contiguous, without tubes; pollinia pyriform, caudicles very short, the glands small 
