128 cxLViii. ORCHIDB^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Orchi8. 



AiPiiTB HiMAiATA ; alt. 11-13,000 ft. ; Kumaon and Garwhal, Boyle, Buthie, 

 SiKKiii, /. D. K. 



Stem very short, sheathed j root elongate, stout, branching into thick fibres. 

 Leaf\-Z in, sessile or petioled, obtuse, fleshy, base narrowed. Scape 2-5 in., very 

 stout, flexuous ; flowers 2-4, dark purple, i in. diam. ; bracts f-1 in., ovate, obtuse ; 

 dorsal sepal ovate, obtuse, lateral oblong, subacute ; petals ascending, elliptic, obtuse ; 

 lip variable in breadth, from elliptic to cnneate-obovate, crenulate, spur variable in 

 length, stout, obtuse ; anther-cells parallel. 



4. O. Stracheyl* SooJc.f.Ic. PI. ined.; leaf solitary radical elliptic 

 or obovate, spike few-fld., bracts longer than the flowers leafy, sepals 

 subequal lateral suberect, lip longer than the sepals broadly cuneate 

 3-lobed to the middle, lobes obtuse, spur as long as the ovary stout 

 incurved obtuse. 



Western Himalaya j Garwhal, near Eogile, alt. 11,000 ft., Strachey and 

 Winteriottom (No. 35 Gymnad. puberula.) 



This bas the solitary leaf of 0. spatlmXata, and the flowers of 0. Chusua, can 

 it be a hybrid ? 



105. KERDXIZTIVIMC, Linn. 



Terrestrial small erect tuberous herbs ; tubers oblong, undivided. Leaves 

 solitarjr or few. Flowers small, spicate. Sepals subequal, 1-nerved, free 

 or conniving in a hood, the lateral spreading. Petals smaller or nearly as 

 large, often thick and fleshy. Lip continuous with the base of the column, 

 shorter or longer ttan the sepals, broad or narrow, spreading or pendulous, 

 entire or 2-3-fid, base flat concave or very shortly saccate. Column very 

 short ; stigma 2-lobed or with 2 globose or clavate processes ; rostellum 

 short ; anther adnate to the face of the column, cells parallel or slightly 

 diverging below; poUinia 2, caudicles very short, glands naked, small 

 or large, or with each gland and its caudicle sheathed by a conical naked 

 coriaceous extinguisher-like shiny brown appendage. — Species 6 or 8, 

 European and N. Asiatic. 



There is no character by which Herminium can be distinguished from Habenaria, 

 except that the lip has never a spur, only a gibbous sac. S. fallasa & Dtithiei, 

 and some other species appear to me to be referable to either genus, but these from 

 habit and locality I retain here. The glands of the poUinia vary extraordinarily in 

 the several species, from small and orbicular, to extinguisher-like bodies, truncate, 

 hollow, coriaceous, brown, shining, and sometimes split down one side. The caudicle 

 appears to be inserted at the bottom of this organ, which is a development of the 

 gland itself ; it is exposed at the base of the anther-cell, and like the ordinary gland, 

 is removable with the pollinium. The Indian Herminia are all mountain or alpine, 

 and attain th& greatest elevation of any orchids. 



* Lip d-lobed. 



1. K. monorchis, Br. in Sort. Kew. Ed. 2, v. 191 ; leaves 2 rarely 3 

 linear-oblong, flowers decurved, bracts equalling the ovary or shorter, 

 petals ovate hardly longer than the sepals, lip hardly longer than the sepals 

 3-fid, lobes narrow. Lindl. Qen. ScSp. Orchid. 305 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 82. 

 BeicAh. Ic. Fl. Germ. xiii. t. 415. Ophrys Monorohis, Linn. Sp. PI. 1342. ' 



Alpine Himalaya and Wbsteen Tibet, alt. 10-13,000 ft., from Kashmir to 

 Sikkim. — Distbib. Europe, N. Asia. 



Four to ten in. high j root ellipsoid. Leaves 1-4 in. Scape naked, rarely 2 

 leaved or 1 sheathed; spike 1-2 in. • flowers subsecund, ^ in. diam., yellow.green • 



