Haheiiaria.] cxLVtll. orChIdI:^. (J. D. Hooker.) 145 



sepals tripartite, segments linear obtuse central broadest, spur slender as 

 long as the curved beaked ovary tip acuminate. 



Western Himalaya ; Kumaon or Garwhal, Soyle, Falconer. 



Stem 12-18 in., stout ; upper sheaths free, ovate-lanceolate. Leaves 4-6 by 

 1-1-J ™-> Dot margined. Spike 8-10 in. j bracts ovate-lanceolate, ciliolate, shorter 

 than the ovary which is curved, \ in., pubescent, beak slender ; lateral sepals \-k in. 

 long ; tubes of anther-cells long, straight ; staminodes large ; stigmatic processes 

 globose. — Much the smallest flowered of its subdivision. 



41. K. spatulaefolla, Par. & Beichh. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxs. 

 140 ; leaves 2-3 subradical obovate-spathnlate, scape slender 2-fld., sheath, 

 and bracts large broad cymbiform, dorsal sepal hemispheric as long as the 

 hatchet-shaped lateral, petals linear-oblong falcate, lip tripartite to the 

 base, segments filiform side ones short central very long incurved, spur 

 longer than the ovary tip clavate. 



Tenassbrim ; at Mergui, Parish. 



Leaves 4r-h by 1-1^ in., not margined, subpetioled. Scape as long ; sheath sub- 

 solitary ; bracts much shorter than the filiform straight beaked pedicelled ovary 

 which is li in. long; sepals ^ in. long; tubes of anther-cells very long, slender; 

 stigmatic processes short. — Habit of Dvplomeris. 



ft Lateral sepals curved or nearly straight, nerves straight or moderately 

 arched. 



42. K. pterocarpa, Thwaites JEnum. 309 ; stem leafy, leaves long 

 linear-lanceolate, bracts equalling the ovary, flowers few very large, dorsal 

 sepal ovate-oblong rather shorter than the falcate oblong-lanceolate acumi- 

 nate lateral, petals linear-oblong falcate, lip twice as long as the sepals 

 3-cleft to above the middle, side lobes subulate-lanceolate falcately 

 recurved longer than the straight midlobe, spur very large thrice as long 

 as the beaked ovary thickened from below the middle. 



Ceyion ; at Kandy, Walker; at Ramboddi, alt. 3000 ft., Thwaites. 



Stem 6-18 in. Leaves 4-10 in., base contracted. Spike 3-10-fld. ; bracts large, 

 ovate-lanceolate ; ovary narrowly winged, shortly pedicelled ; flowers 1^-2 in. diam., 

 white ; ovary 1| in. long ; lateral sepals spreading or deflexed, dorsal rather shorter 

 acute as long as the petals ; spur 3^ in., green, narrowly clavate, mouth with a 

 tooth ; midlobe with deflexed sides ; anther-cells divaricate ; caudicles of poUinia 

 exactly as in H. longiealcarata ; stigmatic processes elongate, clavate ; rostellum 

 triangular. 



43. K. rhynchocarpaj Sook. f. ; stem leafy, leaves lanceolate, 

 spike short dense-fld., dorsal sepal cymbiform half as long as the broadly 

 ovate-oblong lateral, petals linear, lip as long as the sepals 3-lobed to the 

 middle, lobes linear-lanceolate acute mid one longest, spur much longer 

 than the long slender beaked ovary. PH. stenopetala, Lmdl. Gen. & 

 8p. Orchid. 324 {not of p. 319). Platanthera rhynchocarpa, Thwaites 

 JEnum. 310. 



Ceylon ; above Galagama, alt. 4000 ft., Thwaites. „ •, o o • 



Stem 1-2 ft., leafy below the middle. Leaves 2-6 m., sessile. Spike 2-3 in., 

 dense-fld.; bracts slender, equalling the ovary or longer ; flowers white, 4-| m. 

 diam ; lateral sepaU deflexed, subacute ; spur 1-li m., cylmdric, green, obtuse; 

 anther-cells divaricate, tubes straight; glands of pollinia minute ; stigmatic pro- 

 cesses elongate, incurved, adnate to the mouth of the lip; rostellum minute.— 

 Lindley's S. stenopetala of p. 324 (not of p. 319) is I think a starved specimen of 

 rhgnchooa/rpa. 

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