Habenaria.'] oXLVUi. orohiDeJ). (J. D. Hooker.) 141 



glands large orbicalar, lying close together on each side of the erect acute rostellum ; 

 (stigmatic processes short, truncate, Sqlzell) . — A very anomalous species of this 

 section. 



tt J^ip deeply S-lobed or -partite, much longer than the lateral sepals. 



28. K. longrifolia; Sam. in Lindl. Oen. & Sp. Orchid. 324; stem tall 

 slender leafy, leaves very narrow, spike few- and lax-fld., bracts slender 

 longer than the slender beaked ovaries, sepals small, petals gibbously 

 ovate, lip flabelliform, side lobes semi-circular quite entire, spur slender 

 twice as . long as the ovary. Gymnadenia longifolia, Lindl. in Wall. Oat. 

 7060. 



Western Himaiata ; Kumaon, Bot/le ; Nepal, at Nathpur, Mamilton. 



Stem 10-18 in. Leaves 3-5 in., scattered, erect, linear, acuminate. Spii:e 2-3 

 in. ; bracts J— 1 in. ; ovary ^j in. , curved ; flowers white ; lateral sepals J in., oblong- 

 lanceolate, S-nerved, dorsal smaller; petals 3-nerved, as long as the dorsal; lip ^-f 

 in. long and broad, twice or thrice as long as the lateral sepals, midlobe linear, 

 shorter than the side lobes ; anther beaked, cells parallel, tubes upcurved ; stigmatic 

 processes short, clavate, incurved, surrounding the mouth of the spur ; rostellum long, 

 subulate, erect. 



29. X. plantagrinea, lAndl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 323 ; scapigerous, 

 leaves narrowly oblong, scape slender, spike lax-fld., bracts half as long as 

 the beaked ovary, sepals small, petals linear-lanceolate, Hp flabelliform, 

 side lobes semi-ovate entire or toothed, midlobe as long linear, spur as 

 long as the ovary very slender. Wight la. t. 1710. Gymnadenia platy- 

 phylla, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7053. Orchis platyphyllos, Roxb. Fl. Lnd. iii. 

 609. O. tenuis, Herb. Bottl. 



SlTBlBOPiCAl HiMAlATA, alt. 3-7000 ft., from Garwhal to Sikkim. Behab, 

 Cbntbaii India, and the Deooak Peninsitla, from the Concan southwards, 

 Seyne, &c. Ceylon, in the hot drier parts of the Island, 



Leaves 3-6 in., radical, horizontal, acute or obtuse, membranous. Scape 8-12 in., 

 slender ; sheaths small, acuminate ; spike 2-3 in. ; flowers subsecuad, white ; bracts 

 setaceous or lanceolate; ovary | in., curved; sepals i in. long, subequal, acute, 

 3-nerved, dorsal ovate-oblong, lateral falcately oblong; lip i-J in. broad, twice as 

 long as the lateral sepals, puberulous, spur l-lj in. green ; anther rather broad, cells 

 divergent, tubes short upcurved, poUinia as long as their caudicies, glands elongate ; 

 stigmatic processes large, clavate; rostellum triangular, broad. Capsule f in., 

 turgidly fusiform, curved, beak short slender. — In this species the caudicies of the 

 poUinia are at first inserted in the hollow of a single concave 2-lipped or incurved 

 gland of a lanceolate form, which afterwards splits longitudinally, each poUinia 

 carrying away one half. 



30. K. longricalcarata, A. SAch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, xv. 71, t. 

 3 ; subscapigerous, leaves linear-oblong or lanceolate, flowers 1-4, bracts 

 long convolute much shorter than the long-pedicelled beaked ovaries, sepals 

 broad obtuse, petals oblong-lanceolate acuminate, side lobes of lip dimi- 

 diate-ovate acuminate fimbriate or toothed, spur several times longer than 

 the long narrow ovary. Wight Ic. t. 925 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 268. 

 H. decipiens, Wight. Ic v. Pt. i. 14. H. montana, Wight Ic. t. 1714 {upper 

 right and left hand figwres) {not of A. Bichard.) H. longicorniculata, 

 Grah. Cat. Bomb. Fl. 202. H. macroceratitis. Herb. Rottl. 



The Deccan Peninsula ; on the Western Ghats, from the Concan to Travancore, 

 ascending to 6000 ft. 



Stem or scape 10-18 in. ; sheaths few, distant. Leaves 2-4 in. Flowers white, 

 asmine-scented ; bracts J-1 in. ; ovary 1 in., suberect, its pedicel sometimes as long ; 

 sepals i in. long, 3-nerved; lip %-l in. long, spur thickened from below the middle to 



