200 OPHRYDEA, 
Above Gulmarg in Kashmir at about 12,000 feet, Atchison ; Garhwal, on the north- 
ern slopes of Srikínta in the Bághiráthi Valley at elevations between 14,000 and 15,000 
` feet, Duthie No. 517. Flowers in August. Found also in Sikkim. 
T. Невмімішм GRAMINEUM Lindl. in Wall. Cat, 7413. 
Height of plant 5 to 20 cm, Tubers unequal, oblong or sub-globose. Siem with a 
single loose sheath at its base.  Zeaf solitary, linear or narrowly oblanceolate, acute, 
very variable in length, but shorter than the inflorescence. Scape naked, slender but firm. 
Spike 3 to 9 em. long, laxly many-flowered; the rachis striated and somewhat hispid. 
Flowers minute, secund, yellowish-green; floral bract about 5 mm. long, equalling or 
shorter than the curved beaked ovary, subulate from a broad clasping base, entire or 
occasionally more or less trifid. Dorsal sepal oblong or broadly ovate; the lateral pair 
ovate, obtuse, spreading. Petals erect, as long as the sepals, sub-falcately linear, obtuse, 
thick, yellow. Jip entire, shorter than the petals, ovate-acuminate, slightly saccate at 
the base; basal portion pale yellow, curved forwards, concave, the margins ciliate ; 
terminal portion bright yellow, tilted upwards and with reflexed edges. Anther-cells 
parallel; pollinia sub-globose, white tinged with lilac, caudicles very short; glands large, 
shining, green or tinged with brown. Staminodes large, rugulose. Stigmatic processes 
short. Rostelium large, recurved, retuse, fleshy. Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 305; Royle 
Il. t. 87, fig. 3; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind, vi, 131; Krnzl Orch. Gen. апа Sp. i, 535. 
Neottia monophylla Don. Prod. 27. Spiranthes monophylla Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii, 709. 
N. W. India, Royle; Garhwál, Falconer; Mussoorie range, very common on lime- 
stone rocks at elevations between 5,000 and 7,000 feet, Edgeworth, Mackinnon, Duthie 
Nos. 17828, 21770, 22713; Kumaon at about 8,500 feet, Strachey & Winterbottom 
No. 31; Sarju and Кай Valleys іп Kumaor, Duthie’s collector No. 24107. Flowers 
during July and August. It extends into Nepal. 
This species is not included in Colletts Flora of Simla, where it no doubt occurs. Owing 
probably to its small size and inconspicuous colouring, it has as yet escaped notice. 
PLATE 148.. Herminium gramineum Lindl. A plant,—of natural size. Fig. 1, side 
view of flower; 2, ditto, with the sepals and petals removed; 3, a trifid bract; 4, 
column showing the anther-cells, staminodes, stigmatic processes and the prominent 
rostellum ; 5, pollinia;—all enlarged. 
43. Hemipilia Lindl. 
Terrestrial  l-leaved tuberous-rooted herbs. Leaf radical, broad. Flowers laxly 
racemose. Sepals equal in length, lateral spreading. Petals broadly ovate, entire. 
Lip continuous with the column, broad, obscurely 3-lobed, spreading ; spur trumpet» 
shaped. Column very short; rostellum broad, projecting from between the anther cells, 
complicate; stigmatic processes none; anther-cells diverging, tips produced into grooves 
of the rostellum; pollinia 2, caudicles long; glands distant, exposed.—Species 6—one 
Himalayan, one in Burma, and four in China. 
HEMIPILIA CORDIFOLIA Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 296. 
Plant 1:5 to 2 dm, high, glabrous. Zubers ovoid ог subglobose. Leaf fleshy, ` 
amplexicaul, 5 to 10 em. long, ovate-cordate obtuse or acute, mauy-nerved. Raceme 
