Sahenaria.] OXLVltr. OrChIde^. (J.D.Hooker.) 157 



minute, cells parallel, tubes ; pollinia short, grains large, caudicle and gland 

 obscure ; stigmatic processes elayate; rostellum erect, truncate, toothed, plicate con- 

 cealing the glands of the pollinia.— Habit of H. viridiflora. In the Khasia specimens 

 the midlobe of the lip is much longer than in the Peninsular. 1 have had diffi- 

 culty in choosing a specific name, for Bentham, in adopting stenostaehya, overlooked 

 the older pubhshed one of teTiuis. That of peristyloides may be objected to from the 

 plant being sectionally a Peristylus, though Wight did not recognize it as such, and 

 It IS preoccupied by A. Richard for an Abyssinian species. 



80. K. cubitalis, Br. Prodr. 312 ; tall, slender, leaves scattered or sub- 

 radical, linear oblong or lanceolate acute, spike long nan-ow, flowers 

 minute, bracts as long as the curved ovary or shorter, sepals linear-oblong 

 concave keeled, petals larger ovate-oblong, lip not exceeding the sepals 

 S-fid, side_ lobes spreading and recurved, midlobe shorter broad obtuse, 

 spur straight as long as the sepals nearly cylindrio. Platanthera 

 cubitalis, lAndl. Gen. & 8p. Orchid. 292; Thwaites Enum. 310. Orchis 

 cubitalis, Linn. Fl. Zeyl. 320. 



The Khasia Mis., Tenasseeim, Parish, &c. Cktlon ; Hermann, at Pasdoon 

 Corle, Thwaites. 



Stem with the slender spike 1-3 ft. Leaves 2-6 in., sessile, flat, nerves obscure. 

 Spike 8-12 in. ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, lower \ in. ; ovary ^ in., erect, 

 tip decurved ; sepals J^ in., obtuse, 1-nerved, nerve produced beneath the tip' 

 dorsal longest and broadest; petals obliquely oblong, obtuse; lip with a short 

 concave claw, lateral lobes shorter than or equalling the sepals ; anther minute, cells 

 parallel, tubes 0, pollinia short granular, caudicles and glands obscure ; stigmatic 

 processes clavate ; rostellum erect, truncate, toothed, plicate, concealing the glands 

 of the_ pollinia. — Near H. sienostaeht/a, but flowers much smaller. There are two 

 forms in Ceylon, one with leaves scattered along the stem, and another also found in 

 Tenasserim with radical leaves ; the latter is, — ■ 



Var. brevifoUa; leaves very short 1-lJ in. radical linear-oblong. Coeloglossum 

 brevifolium, Li,nd'l. Gen. ^ Sp. Orchid. 302 {exel. hob. Nepal).~Ta,voy, WalUch,. 

 Ceylon, Walker S( Oardn. Wallich's specimen in Herb. Linn. Soc. are not numbered 

 by him, but are ticketed, " Tavoy, Dec. 16, 1827." The number 7041 which has * 

 been put on the sheet by another hand, Wallich gave only to the Khasian plant, his 

 linifolia (M. hhasiaim, \>. 151). To var. brevifoUa he gave the mss. name of com- 

 melinifolia (not micrantha, as Lindley states in his Herbarium). 



ft Leaves clustered round the middle of the stem {sometimes scattered 

 in H. G-ardneri.) Slender species ; spiJce long, lax-Jld. 



81. H. tipulifera, Par. & Beichb.f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. :kxx. 139; 

 leaves 4-6 linear-lanceolate acuminate, bracts very slender equalling the 

 slender ovaries, lateral sepals linear obtuse, petals broader ovate-oblong 

 obtuse membranous, lateral segments of lip many times longer than the 

 sepals capillary, mid one short subulate, spur clavate as long as the 

 sepals. ? Peristylus gracilis, Blume Bijdr. 406. 



Tenassektm ; at Moulraein, FarisJi. 



Stem 1-2 ft., with appressed sheaths below the leaves, and 1-2 lanceolate ones 

 above thera. Leaves 5-8 by J-1 in., clustered about the middle of the stem, mem- 

 branous, sessile. Spike 6-10 in. ; flowers erect, small, distant ; bracts J-| in. ; 

 ovaries as long, straight; sepals •!• in. long, 1-nerved, dorsal ovate-oblong broad or 

 narrow, lateral erect ; lip divided close to the narrow concave claw ; anther minute 

 cells parallel, tubes 0, pollinia clavate, caudicles very short, glands oblong ; stigmatic 

 processes margining the claw of the lip ; rostellum broad, plicate, concealing the 

 bases of the anther-cells and glands. Capsule ^ in., very slender, straight, erect. — 

 Very near H. aristata, difiering in the long narrow leaves, and much longer very 

 slender ovary. 



