150 cxLViii. OBCHiDE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Hdbenaria. 



58. K. marg'inata, Coleh. in SooJc. JFl. JSxot. t. 336 ; subscapigerons, 

 leaves few subradical sessile oblong or linear-oblong margins yellow, spikes 

 many-fld., bracts eiqualling the ovary, dorsal sepal broadly ovate as long as 

 the oblong-lanceolate lateral, petals ovate falcate, lip longer than the sepals 

 tripartite side segments slender longer than the linear obtuse central, spnr 

 stout equalling the curved ovary or shorter inflated below. Lindl. Gen. Sf 

 8p. Orchid. 320 ; Dalz. Sf Gils. Bomb. Fl. 268 ; CViZf. Notid. iii. 371 ; Ic. 

 Plant. Asiat. t. 341 ; in Calcutt. Jowm. Nat. Mist. iv. 382. Platanthera 

 marginata, Lindl. in Wall. Oat. 7038. H. promensis. Wall. Cat. 7033; 

 Lindl. Gen. Sf Sp. Orchid. 320. Orchis mysorensis and clavata, Herb. 

 S4yne. 



Westeen Himalaya ; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 5-7000 ft. Behae and 

 Bensal {wild in JBoi. Qard. Calo.). Buema, Wallich. 'The Deccan Peninsula, 

 common on the Western G-hats. 



Leaves i-5 in. Scape 4^10 in. ; sheaths many, erect, lanceolate, hroad or narrow. 

 Spike 2-6 in., cylindrie; bracts ciliolate; flowers i in. diam,, yellow-green ; lateral 

 sepals 3-5-nerved, deflexed; petals as long, 2-nerved; spur clavate or fusiform 

 below the middle; anther-cells distant, tubes short spreading funnel-shaped j 

 caudicles of pollioia short, glands large ; stigmatic processes long, adnate to the lip ; 

 rostellnm triangular, acute. Capsule ^ in., fusiform, turgid, curved, obscurely 

 beaked. 



59. H. flavescens, jBboi./. ; scape slender, leaves few radical linear- 

 oblong yellowish when dry margined with yellow, scape slender few-fld., 

 bracts equalling the ovary, dorsal sepal broadly ovate, lateral oblong-lan- 

 ceolate acute, petals larger than the sepals ovate-oblong, lip rather longer 

 than the sepals 3-partite side-segments slender, mid-segment linear-oblong 

 margins recurved, spnr shorter than the ovary tip clavate. 



The CoNCAN, Law, &c. 



A much more slender plant than M. marginata, turning yellow when dry, with 

 fewer smaller flowers, and a more distinctly beaked ovary; but perhaps only a form 

 of that plant. 



60. K. viridiflora, Sr. Prodr. 312 ; scapigerous, leaves shorter than 

 the scape Imear-lanceolate not margined, raceme many-fld., bracts much 

 shorter than the beaked ovaries, dorsal sepal orbicular-ovate much shorter 

 than the broadly oblong lateral, petals broadly obliquely ovate as Ions as 

 the dorsal sepal, lip longer than the sepals 3-partite, segments slender 

 spur as long as the beaked ovary thickened below. Lindl Gen & 8p' 

 Orchid. 319; Wight Ic. t. 1705. H. graminea, A. Sick, in Ann ISc 

 Nat. 8er. 2, xv. 73 {not of Lindl). H. tenuis, Grijf. in Calc. Journ Nat 

 Hist. iv. 379, t. 20; NotA iii. 369; Ic. Plant Asiat. t. 342 Orchis 

 viridiflora, Swartz. m Act. Holm. 1800, 206 ; Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 13. 



LowEE Bensal, Griffith, Clarice. The Deccan Peninsula • in rice fields 

 Beyne, &c. Cetlon, alt. 5-7000 ft.. Waller, &c. ' 



T«5ers ovoid, f-1 in. long Leaves many, 2-4 by i-J in., acuminate, nerves 

 obscure Scape 4-14 m., slender, sheaths many and bracts lanceolate ; raceme 

 rather close-fld. ; flowers i m. diam., greenish-yellow; sepals 3-nerved, lateral re- 

 flexed; segments of l.p variable in length; ovary | in. long; anther-cells short, 

 divaricate, tubes short upcurved, caudicles rather shorter than their poUinia • stiematic 

 processes clavate ; rostellum short, broad. Capsule | in., fusiform, straight or 

 curved, beak short, pedicel i in. ' & 



Tar. Dalzellii ; leaves radical linear 3-5 in., scape very slender wirv, flower 

 rather smaller, spur longer than the ovary slender incurved. Caloglossum luteum 



