143 cxLviii. OBCHiDBjs. (J. D. Hooker.) [Habenaria. 



the tip ; anther Tery broad, tubes as long as the cells, pollinia narrowly pyrifonn 

 shorter than their slender caudicles, which are narrowly winged on one side, glands 

 very small ; stigmatic processes surrounding the mouth oP the spur ; rostellum obscure. 

 — Allied to H. longicornu, but much more slender, leaves longer, flowers much 

 larger, lip longer than the sepals, its side lobes broader, and spur Tery much longer. 



31. H. crinifera, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 323 ; scapigerous, leaves 

 oblong or lanceolate, raceme lax-fld., bracts much shorter than the 

 pedicelled ovary, sepals broad obtuse, petals linear acuminate, lip clawed 

 sub 4-partite, side lobes cuneate or dimidiate-ovate crenate caudate, mid- 

 lobe 2-lobuled, spur very slender incurved much longer than the filiform 

 beaked ovary. Wight Ic. t. 926; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomh. Fl. 269. H. 

 schizochilus, Grah. Cat. Bomh. PI. 282. Symmeria schizochilus, Grah. 

 I. c. on last (unnumbered) page. 



The Deocan Peninsuia, from the Concan to Travancore. Cetion. 



Leaves 1-6 in., very variable in breadth. Scape 1-18 in., very slender ; sheaths 

 scattered, subulate: bracts lanceolate ; flowers white, f-l^ in. long; dorsal sepal 

 orbicular, subacute, lateral broadly ovate ; lip much longer than the sepals, as it were 

 4-lobed, the lobes tailed ; spur with a long erect ligule at the mouth ; anther 

 tubes long, straight; caudicles of pollinia winged as in S. longicalcarata, glands 

 minute ; stigmatic processes clavate, adnata to the mouth of the spur ; rostellum 

 very short, obtuse. 



32. K. trifiora, Bon Prodr. 25; stem leafy 1-2-fld., leaves short 

 sheathing, bracts long embracing the ovaries of the large erect flowers, 

 dorsal sepal oblong-ovate, lateral oblong-lanceolate, petals small linear- 

 subulate, lip very large, side lobes semi-oblong hatchet-shaped crenulate, 

 midlobe shorter linear, spur very slender as long as ovary straight. 

 Platanthera Candida, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7035 ; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 295. 



Western Himalaya ; Kumaon, alt. 5000 ft., Strackey Sf Winterbottom ; Nep:!!, 

 Wallich. Lower Bengai. ; at Mymensingh, Clarke. 



Stem 8-12 in., rather slender. Leaves 1-3 in., oblong, acute, sometimes all im- 

 bricating, or the lower larger and spreading, upper acuminate. Flowers shortly 

 pedicelled ; bracts and slender ovary 1-li in. long ; sepals ^ in. loug, suberect ; 

 petals l-nerved ; lip 1-1^ in. broad, sessile on the mouth of the spur, and there 

 bigibbous ; spur slightly thickened at the tip, mouth funnel-shaped ; anther very 

 broad, quadrate, truncate, cells marginal, tubes short free, glands of pollinia 

 minute ; staminodes prominent ; stigmatic surface inconspicuous ; rostellum broad 

 obscure.- — The suberect lateral sepals, and sheathed stem recall the species of the 

 Phyllostachya section. 



*** Lip short, 3-lobed at the broad apex. 



33. K. Orchidis, Kooh. f. ; stem stout leafy, leaves oblong or linear- 

 oblong erect acute, spike short cylindric very dense-fld., bracts longer 

 than the short curved ovaries, flowers small, sepals pnberulous, dorsal 

 elliptic, lateral oblong, petals shorter rhombic-orbicular, lip ouueately 

 obovate, spur as long a,s the ovary slender incurved. Gymnadenia 

 cylindrostaohya, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7056; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 218. G. 

 Orchidis, and violacea, Lindl. Gen. ^ Sp. I. c. Platanthera Orchidi? 

 Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7039 A. 



Tempeeate Himalaya; Garwhal, alt. 8-9000 {t.,Duthie; Knmaon, Wallich- 

 &ikkim, alt. 8-1000 ft., J. D. S. 



Stem 1-2-ft. iefftJPi 2-6 in. , broad or narrow, sheathing, sometimes short and 

 imbricating. Spilce 2-5 in.; bracts lanceolate, herbaceous; ovary J in. long, in- 

 curved, subrostia'.e; flowers i— | in. diam., pink, odoriferous, perianth spreading; 



