194 OPHRYDE. 
Dehra Dun іп sál forest, Mackinnon; Siwalik range, Duthie’s collector No. 24176; 
Sarju Valley іп Kumaon, /udhie’s collector No, 24060, Flowers during July and 
August. Found also in Sikkim, on the Khasia Hills, Assam, Chittagong, and in Upper 
and Lower Burma. 
99. HABENARIA GALEANDRA Benth. Fl. Hongk. 363. 
Tubers small, globose or oblong. Stem 1:5 to 3 dm. high, slender, glabrous or 
puberulous, usually tinged with purple, the lower portion bearing a few loose tubular 
sheaths. Leaves З to 5:5 em. long, oblong-lanceolate, blunt or sub-acute, narrowed to 
the base and amplexicaul, dark green above, and usually with a bright purple band 
down the centre. Spite 1 to 1:5 dm., many-flowered; floral bracts leaflike, much 
longer than the flowers, diminishing upwards. Flowers about 12 mm. in diam., pale 
purple. Sepals and petals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Dorsal sepal erect, the lateral | 
pair spreading, sub-faleate. Petals rather shorter than the sepals, conniving with the 
dorsal one. Lip broad, cuneiformly obovate or obcordate, often mucronate, shortly 
clawed, sides erect, upper surface puberulous at the base; spur stout, about half as 
long as the ovary. Awther-cells approximate; pollinia narrowly obovate, caudicles short, 
tapering into the elongate flat glands. Staminodes distinct, curving forward and in front 
of the anther-tubes. Ovary curved, the ribs brownish purple and puberulous. Hook. 
کر‎ Fl Br. Ind. vi, 163; Collett Fl. Siml. 506. Platanthera obcordata Lindl. in Wall. 
Cat. 7050; Gen. and Sp. Orch. 290; Rolfe in Journ. Linn. бос. xxxvi, 56, 
P, galeandra Reichb. f. in Linnea xxv, 226. Р. Championi Lindl. in Hook, Journ 
Bot. vii, 38. Gymnadenia obcordata and galeandra Reichb. f. Ot. Bot. Hamb, 32, 33. 
Orchis obcordaía Buch.-Ham. іп Don Prod. 230. 0. Susanne, Herb. Heyne. 
Simla Hills, Stoliczka, Collett; Mussoorie range between 5,000 and 7,000 feet, 
Vicary, Mackinnon, Duthie Nos. 2575, 21755, 22732; Garhwál, Falconer, Royle ; British 
Garhwál near Lansdowne, Roberis; Kumaon 7,000 feet, Strachey & Winterbottom 
No, 0; Т, Thomson, Colonel Davidson, Duthte’s collector No. 21064. Flowers in August. 
It extends eastwards to Nepal, Khasia and Naga Hills, Upper Burma and China. 
No record from Sikkim, 
PLATE 144.—Habenaria galeandra Benth, A plant,—of natural size. Fig. 1, side view 
of flower; 2, front view of column, with lip attached (the latter spread out); 3, front 
view of column, further enlarged; 4, pollinia ;—al/ enlarged. 
30. HABENARIA sECUNDIFLORA Hook. f. Ie. Pl. 2321. 
Plant 1 to 95 dm. high; tubers ellipsoid. Stem with a few small sheaths at the 
base. Leaves two or three, distant 5 to 12°5 em., linear, acuminate, scarcely narrowed 
to the tubular sheath. Bracts below the raceme linear, acuminate. Raceme up to 1 
dm. in length. Flowers secund, rather.crowded, 9 mm. long, pink; floral bract lanceolate, 
a the margins ciliolate, the lower ones much longer than the curved tumid 
subsessile ovary. Sepals sub-equal, lanceolate. Petals linear, sub-acute, falcate, minutely 
papillose, connivent with the three sepals to form a hood over the column. Тар ав 
long ав the sepals, deflexed, widening towards the 3-lobed apex; lateral lobes trian- 
_ gular, not diverging; midlobe larger, oblong, acute; spur shorter than the ovary, rather 
