HABENARIA. 195 
broadly conical from a contracted base, its apex blunt, Column long. Anther-cells 
parallel, contiguous; pollinia oblong-obovoid; caudicles short, stout; glands large, lan- 
ceolate, acuminate, united for half their length by their inner edges. Staminodes oblong, 
rugulose, Infertile stigma large, егесі, 2-lobed, each lobe faleately oblanceolate and 
covering the base of the anther. Fertile stigmas united, transversely oblong, forming 
a horizontal band below the infertile one, Hook f. Fl. Br, Ind. vi, 165; р Кш & 
Pantling in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Cale., viii, 330, t. 433. Peristylus secundiflorus Krnzl. 
Orch. Gen, and Sp. i, 518. 
In a forest near Sosa in Eastern Kumaon between 9,000 and 10,000 feet, Duthie 
No. 3421. Flowers in September. It has been collected also in Sikkim, Bhutan and 
in E. Tibet, 
This species bears а striking resemblance to 77. urceolata; moreover, in both of them, the 
stigmas are united and the inflorescence is seound. In Н, secundiflora the sepals and petals are 
connivent, and together form a hood over the blunt column; the lip is 3-lobed, and the polliniar 
glands are united. This cohesion of the glands occurs also in М. plantaginea; but, as has been 
pointed out under that species, they ultimately separate. 
31. HABENARIA Grirriram Hook, f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 197 ; Ic. Pl, 2322. 
Tubers small, oblong. Stem 15 to З dm, high, slender, straight or flexuous, few- 
leaved, Leaves 25 to 6 cm. long, elliptic or linear-oblong, acute or obtuse, mem- 
branous, the lower subpetioled. Spite secund, 2°5 to 6 em. long, densely flowered. 
Flowers very small, white, deflexed; floral bract, ovate-lanceolate, variable in length. 
Sepals and petals 5 mm. long, spreading at their tips. Dorsal sepal ovate-lanceolate, 
obtuse, the lateral pair obliquely linear-oblong. Pedals linear-lanceolate. Zip 4 mm. long, 
` oblong, 3-fid. at the apex; side lobes divaricate, obtuse; midlobe longer and broader; 
spur very short, and slightly curved outwards. Ат е” broad, rounded ог retuse at 
the apex, cells diverging at the base; pollinia obovate, the caudicles short and very 
slender, glands minute. S/aminodes two, filiform, usually longer than the anther, attached 
to the base and back of each cell. Rostellum forked, its branches diverging beneath 
the anther-cells. Capsule З mm. long, oval, shortly stalked, the ribs thick. H. decipiens 
Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 165 (not of Wight). Diphylax Стрий Krnzl Orch. Gen. 
and Sp. i, 599. Herminium Griff. Notul. iii, 270; Ic. Pl. As. t. 285, fig. 1. 
Bundai in the Chitral district at 4,000 feet, Harriss (Duthie’s Nos. 1667, 1668) 
Jhelam Valley in Kashmir between 5,000 and 6,000 feet, Duthie No. 10926; Lahul 
between 4,000 and 5,000 feet, Т. Thomson; below Simla at 3,000 feet, Edgeworth; 
Tutwa Gádh in Jaunsar between 3,000 and 4,000 feet, Gleadow ; Asno in T. Garhwál, 
Gamble No. 25490 (under Goodyera); Mussoorie range 6 to 7,000 feet, King (under 
Zeuxine), Mackinnon (Duthie’s Nos. 22733, 24170). Е lowers from March to May. 
| This remarkable species was found originally by Griffith in Afghanistan (Kew Distrib, 
No. 5326). It was collected mauy years afterwards by Dr. Aitchison in the Kurram Valley (his 
number 322). Тһе difficulty in determining its floral structure from herbarium specimens was the 
cause of this species having been referred at different times to no fewer than eight genera. It 
tears a strong outward resemblance to (Spiranthes, under which genus Griffith’s specimens were pro- 
visionally placed. In Gleadow’s specimens, collected in Jaunsar, the staminodes are not longer than 
the anther, and the branches of the rostellum, instead of spreading laterally, are directed forwards; 
also they are flat with wide bases and incurved at their apices, 
Axx. Roy. Bor. Garp., Carc., Vou. IX. 
