HABENARIA. 193 
and obovoid, Staminodes large, oblong, spreading outwards at right angles to the 
anther. Stigmas two, large, lying beneath and parallel to the staminodes, spreading. 
Hook. f. Fl, Br. Ind. vi, 161 (in part); King & Pantling in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. 
Cale. viii, 326, t. 480; Collett Fl. Siml. 505. H. ornithoides Wall. MSS., Peristylus 
grandis Blume Bijdr, 405. Herminium goodyeroides Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7066A (іп part). 
Below Deoban in Jaunsar at 7,600 feet, Osmaston; Dehra Dun, Mackinnon ; 
Mussoorie range up to 6,000 feet, Mackinnon, Duthie Nos. 2315, 21756; Bok Hill in 
Garhwál, Duthie’s collector No. 24169; near Almora іп Kumaon at 4 ‚000 feet, Strachey 
& Winterbottom No. 88, Duthie’s collector Nos. 24059, 24065. Flowers during 
July and August. It extends eastwards to Nepal, Parasnath in Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, 
the Khasia Hills and Manipur. 
Var. afins Lindl, Gen, and Sp. Orch., 300. Much smaller in all its parts 
than the type; the lip is rather longer, gibbous at the base, and with broader side 
lobes. King & Pantling in Ann. В. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 827, t. 480 bis. М. 
afinis Don. Prod. 25. JI goodyeroides in Hook. f. Fl. Br, Ind. (in part) JH. saccu- 
ata Wall. MSS. Peristylus goodyeroides Lindl, Gen..and Sp. Orch. 299; Royle Ш. Him. 
Bot. t. 87, fig. 2; Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvi, 54 (in part). 
In the Chamba State, Punjab Himalaya at 4,000 feet, Lace No. 1814; Mussoorie 
range common between 6,000 and 7,000 feet, Mackinnon, Duthie Nos, 17826, 21757, 
22729; Garhwál, Royle, King; British Garhwál at Lansdowne between 4,000 and 
5,000 feet, Roberts. Flowers during August. It extends eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim, 
and to the Khasia and Naga Hills. 
28, HABENARIA CONSTRICTA Wall. ex Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 161. 
Tubers oblong, hairy. Stem stout, 5 to 75 dm. high, clothed at the base with 
wide blunt sheaths. Leaves five or six, at the upper portion of the stem, more or less 
whorled, 7:5 to 175 cm. long, ovate-elliptic, acute or acuminate, much narrowed 
towards the long sheaths; bracts on upper part of stem linear-lanceolate, acuminate. 
Spike broadly cylindric, 2 to 4 dm. long, many- and densely-flowered. Flowers spread- 
ing, white, sweet-scented, 1'9 to 2*3 сш. across; floral bract erect, lanceolate, acu- 
minate, about as long as the erect ovary. Sepals about equal, oblong, obtuse, ciliolate- 
the dorsal conduplicate; the lateral pair spreading, their margins involute. Petals 
larger than the sepals, obliquely ovate-lanceolate, bluntly acuminate, somewhat gibbous 
on the lower side, spreading upwards in front of the dorsal sepal, but not conniving 
with it to form a hood. Zip as long as the petals, oblong, 3-lobed to about the 
middle; lateral lobes linear, acuminate, somewhat diverging at their apices; midlobe 
shorter, oblong, tapering to a blunt point. Column very short and broad.  Anther-cells 
close together but not. contiguous, without tubes; pollinia obovoid; the caudicles 
short, tapering to the oblong-elliptic gland. Staminodes oblong, obtuse. Stigmas two, 
obovate-oblong, spreading. King & Pantling ` in Ann. В. Bot. Gard, Cale. viii, 
325, t. 499. Platanthera constricta Lindl. in. Wall, Cat. 7043. Hab. goodyerowes Lindl. 
in Wall. Cat. 7066B. (not of Don) Herminium constrictum Lindl. im Bot. Reg. under 
1449. Perisiylus constrictus Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 300; Krnzl Orch. Gen. and 
Sp. I, 508. Orchis leucantha Herb. Ham. 
Axx, Roy. Вот. GARD», CALO., Vor. IX. 
