152 CXLVIII. OECHiDE^. (J. D. Hooker.) \IIahenaria. 



than the ovary, sepals ovate-oblong subequal, petals as long linear, lip 

 mnoh longer than the sepals 3-partite, segments filiform lateral longest, 

 spur about equalling the ovary inflated acute. Balz. & Gibs. Bomh. Fl. 

 268. H. Jerdoniana, Wight Ic. t. 1715. H. Sutleri, Beichh. f. in Linnma 

 XXV. 229. Platanthera canarensis, Lindl. in Plant. KohenacTc exsicc, 

 No. 142. Liparis diphyllos, Nimmo in Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL. 252. 



Westbbn Himaiata j Garwhal, Falconer. Eastern Bengal ; Dacca, Clarke. 

 The Deccan Peninsula ; from the Concan to Malabar. 



Leaves 1-2 in. diam., thinly fleshy. Scape 4-lU in., slender; sheaths many, 

 small. S'pike 2-4 in., narrow ; bracts i in., acute ; flowers about J in. diam. ; ovary 

 J in., hardly beaked; dorsal sepal ovate, lateral oblong, acute, 3-nerved ; anther 

 broad, cells diverging, tubes very short; stigmatic processes elongate, clavate, 

 adnate to the mouth of the spur ; rostellum obscure. 



65. K. Aitchisoni, Beichb. f. in Trans. Binn. Soc. Ser. 2, Bot. iii. 

 113 ; leaves opposite orbicular cuspidate, scape tall, spike elongate, flowers 

 Bubsecund erect, bracts halE as long as the ovary, sepals subequal oblong- 

 ovate obtuse, petals as long ovate-lanceolate, lip as long as the sepals 3- 

 partite above the base, side segments longest spreading and recurved, spur 

 shorter than the short curved ovary clavate. H. brachyphylla, Aitch. If 

 Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. 118. 



Temperate Himalaya ; Kashmir, alt. 7000 ft.. Falconer, &c. ; Kumaon, 

 alt. 9-12,C00 ft., Duthie j Sikkim, alt. 10-11,000 ft., J. D. if.— Disieib. Aff- 

 gbanistan. 



Very variable in size and stoutness, 10-18 in. high. Leaves inserted above the 

 base of the stem, 1-3 in. broad, not margined. <S^ca>pe sometimes as thick as a goose- 

 quill ; sheaths few, small ; spike rather dense-fld. ; bracts J in., acute or acuminate ; 

 flowers i in. diam., greenish ; sepals 3-nerved, lateral spreading, dorsal erecb ; petals 

 1-nerved; mid-segment of lip straight; anther short, broad, cells parallel, tubes very 

 short upcurved ; stigmatic processes large, clavate ; rostellum minute. 



Var. Josephi ; smaller, 2-4 in. high, leaves l-lj in., spike few-fld. H. Josephi, 

 Eeichb.f. I. c. 114.— Kumaon, alt. 10-11,000 ft., Duthie ; Sikkim, alt. 12-14,000 ft., 

 J. D. M., King's Collector. 



66. K. reniformis, Sooh. f. ; leaves 1-2 radical orbicular or oblong, 

 scape slender few-fld., bracts muoh shorter than the ovary, sepals and petals 

 subequal ovate or ovate-lanceolate acute, lip longer than the sepals entire 

 or 3-partite with slender segments, spur shorter than the ovary or 0. — 

 Herminium reniforme, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7067. Aopla reniformis, Lindl. 

 in Bot. Beg. under t. 1701; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 304, 457; Benth. M. 

 Kongh. 868. Listera reniformis, Bon Prodr. 28. 



Nepal, Wallich. Khabia Hills, alt. 4-5000 ft., Lolb, &c. — Distkib. China. 



Leaves |— | in. long, fleshy, very variable in form, sessile, obtuse. Scape with 

 4r-6-fid. spike 3-6 in., wiry; sheaths few, small; bracts lanceolate; flowers about 

 ^ in. diam., green ; sepals 3-nerved, lateral deflexed ; lip (in the Peloria state) entire 

 and linear-oblong, or with two small basal teeth ; in the perfect state with three 

 very narrow often tortuous divaricate segments longer than the sepals ; spur usually 

 wholly absent, if present slender, nearly as long as the ovary, slightly incurved • 

 anther-cells nearly parallel, tubes very short ; caudicles of pollinia short, glands laro'e ? ■ 



stigmatic processes large, subcylindric or clavate ; rostellum short, triangular, acute. 



A puzzling little plant, which in the Khasia usually and in Nepal has been collected 

 only in the Peloria form, without spur, and with an entire lip. Bentham (in Gen. 

 Plant. ) retains it in Serminium from which it differs in being normally spurred. It 

 is obviously allied to JT. Aitchisoni. 



