154 cxLViii. OBCHiDE^. (J. D. Hooker.) \^Hdbenaria. 



70. K. oUgrantha, Hook. /. ; stem slender naked above the usually 

 solitary oblong leaf, bracts lanceolate herbaceous much longer than the 

 flower usually divaricate, sepals and petals subequal, spur stout about as 

 long as the shortly beaked ovary incurved clavate. 



SiKKiM Himalaya j in the interior valleys, alt. 10-12,000 ft., J. D. S. 



Stem 5-10 in. Leaf sessile, 2-4 by f-l^ in., obtuse or subacute. S'pike li-4 in., 

 lax-fld. ; bracts spreading, lower |-1 in., green, upper gradually smaller, uppermost 

 hardly exceeding the short sessile curved ovary ; sepals J in. long, oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate, subacute, obscurely 3-nerved, subciliolate ; petals as long, triangular- 

 lanceolate, base of lower margin gibbous ; lip linear-lanceolate, fleshy ; anther-cells 

 parallel, tubes ; poUinia pyriform, caudicles short, glands minute j stigmatic processes 

 short ; rostellum fleshy, triangular, obtuse. 



71. K. leptocaulon, Sooh.f. : stem slender, -with 2-3 narrow distant 

 sheaths above the linear-oblong acute leaf, spike slender few-fld., bracts 

 equalling the erect curved ovary, sepals and petals subequal, spur slender 

 as long as the ovary incurved. 



SiKKiM Himalaya ; Lachen Valley, alt. 10-11,000 ft., /. D. S. 



Stem 8-12 in. ieof below the middle of the stem, 1^-4 by -f in.; sheaths above 

 the leaves 1-lJ in., linear-lanceolate, erect. Spike 3-8-fld., 1-2 in., racbis slender; 

 bracts ^— J in., erwct, slender ; sepals ^ in. long, 1-nerved, lanceolate, acute ; petals 

 broader than the sepals, triangular-lanceolate from a broad gibbous base, fleshy ; 

 anthers as in H. oligantha, but rostellum shorter, and glands of pollinia large, oblong, 

 resting on the sides of the rostellum ; stigmatic processes short. — Near H. oligantha, 

 but distinguished by the narrow leaves, the sheaths above them, small bracts, and 

 long slender spur. 



72. K. pachycaulon, SooTc. f. ; stem short very stout with 2 or 3 

 large herbaceous sheaths above the solitary oblong leaf, spike short 

 dense-fld., bracts herbaceous much longer than the flowers, sepals and 

 petals subequal, lip ovate-lanceolate, spur equalling the ovary incurved 

 clavate. 



SiKKiM Himalaya ; Lachen Valley, alt. 12,000 ft., /. D. S. ; Nattong, King's 

 Collector. 



Sootstock branched ; roots thick, fleshy. Stem 4^6 in., as thick as a goose-qnill 

 or less, ieaf 2|-3J by j-lj in., thick, obtuse; sheaths 1-1^ in., lanceolate. Hpike 

 1^2 in. ; bracts J-1 in ., many-nerved ; flowers purple ; ovary ^ in., hardy beaked j 

 sepals thick, linear-oblong, 1-nerved, oiliolate ; petals shorter, ovate-oblong, fleshy ; 

 lip fleshy, subacute ; anther-cells parallel ; glands of poUinia oblong resting on the 

 sides of the short acute rostellum ; stigmatic processes obscure. 



73. K. nexnatocaulon^ Kooh.f. ; stem very slender naked or with 

 one or two sheaths above the small oblong subacute leaf, spike very 

 slender lax-fld., bracts half the length of the erect ovary, flowers minute, 

 sepals erect and petals subequal, lip oblong-lanceolate, spur very short 

 clavate. 



SiKKiM Himalaya ; alt. 10-12,000 ft. J. D. S., Clarke. 



. Stem 3-8 in. Zeaf towards the base of the stem, 1-li in. ; sheaths usually very 

 small, rarely green and leaf -like. Spike 2-4 in. long; bracts membranous; ovary 

 i-i in., hardly beaked ; flowers J^^ in . long ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, 1-nerved ; 

 petals as broad as the dorsal sepal, triangular-ovate, acute, 1-nerved ; lip not fleshy, 

 5-nerved, obtuse ; spur not half the length of the sepals, neck contracted ; anther 

 short, broad, cells parallel, glands of pollinia rather large, resting on the sides of the 

 erect fleshy rostellum ; stigmatic processes globose. Capsule ^ in. long, sessile, erect, 

 fusiform, beaked. — The erect lateral sepals, minute flo\yers and short spur, are those 



