164 cxLViii. oitCHiDEj:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Halenaria. 



andra.iJeM/iJ. /. in lAnncea, xxv. 226. P. Charapioni, Lindl. in Hook. 

 Journ. Bot. vii. (1865) 88. Gymnadenia oboordata & galeandra, Beichb.f. 

 Ot. JETamh. 32, 33. Orchis obcordata, Don Prodr. 230. O. Susanna?, 

 Serb. ILeyne, 



Westeen HimaIiAYA ; Nepal, Wallicli ; Kumaon, Blirikworth, alt. 7000 ft., 

 Straehey Sf Vinterhottom. Central India; Hawalbagh,' Clarke. — Distkib. 

 China. 



raier* small, globose or oblong. Stem 6-8 in., rather slender, glabrous or 

 puherulous. Leaves 1-2 in., rarely suhacutc ; bases not sheathing. Spike 2-4 in. ; 

 bracts oblong-ovate or lanceolate, lower twice as lont; as the pale purple flowers, 

 npper shorter ; ovaries i in. long, glabrous or puberulous ; dorsal sepal ovate, 

 lateral falcately lanceolate ; petals rather narrower, obtuse ; lip shortly clawed, 

 base puberulous ; anther-cells approximate ; rostellum very minute. — I do not find 

 the differencb . between the spurs of the Indian and Chinese plant that Lindley 

 indicates. 



Var. nilagirica; leaves broader acute, bases sheathing. Platanthera affinis, 

 Wight Ic. t. 1693. — Travauoore, on the Pulney Mts., Heyne, Wight. 



Vak. major; stem 12-18 in., leaves and larger flowers more remote. — Khasia 

 Hills; at Myrung, alt. 5000 ft., J. D. H. ^ T. T. 



101. K. jantha, JSenth. in Gen. Plant, iii. 626 ; leaves imbricate 

 ovate or lanceolate amplexicanl acuminate, flowers J in. diam., lip broadly 

 flabelliform or orbicniar-obovate retnse creniilate, spur very sbort conical 

 obtuse. Platanthera jantlia, Wight le. v. 11 (P 1. 1692). 



Malabae and Teavancokb ; on the Nilghiri and Pulney Mts., WiffM. 



Except in being more robust and having much larger flowers, this hardly- differs 

 from H. oheordaia. Wight gives the larger flowers as a character, but in his figure 

 t. 1692 they are represented as even smaller. In his specimen the lip is J in. diam. ; 

 he describes the flowers as deep lilac, and the leaves as of the same colour and 

 streaked with a darker shade.— Probably a large state IT. oicordata. 



102. K. Kelferl, Sbo/!;./. ; stem pubescent, leaves and bracts linear- 

 or oblong-lanceolate acuminate, flowers 1-1| in. diam., lip very large 

 orbicular cncullate, spur infundibular acute. Gymnadenia Helferi, Efeichb. 



f. in Flora 1872, 276 ; in Trans. Linn. Boa. xxx. 139. 



Assam (Serl. Wight) Khasia Mts., Simons. Tenasseeim, at Moulmein, Loli. 

 Selfer, Parish. 



Stem 12-18 in., rather stout; tubers oblong. Leaves 4-8 in., sessile, acuminate, 

 base narrowed. Flowers shortly pedioellcd ; sepals falcately-Ianoeolate, acuainate, 

 nearly 1 in. long, green, lateral at length recurved ; petals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 green ; lip twice as large as the sepals, very concave with recurved edges, folded down 

 the centre, purple; anther obtusely apieulate, cells narrow parallel, tubes very short, 

 poUinia clavate, as long as their broadly winged caudicles, glands approximate, rather 

 large j stigmatio processes obscure ; rostellum small, fleshy, 3-lobed, erect between 

 the gland. Capsule ■§ in., linear-oblong, sessile, erect, ribs thick. — Reichenbach 

 describes, the lip as broad or narrow. 



Sect. VII. Plectoglossa. (See p. 132.) ' 



103. K. Perrottetlana, A. Bich. in Ann. 8c. Nat.- Ser. 2, xv. 74, 

 t. 4 B. Platanthera lutea, Wight Ic. t. -919. H. lutea, Benth. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xviii. 354 ;' Gen. Plant, iii. 626. • > 



Teavancoee ; as the Pulney Mts. amongst long grass, Wight. Nilghiri Hills, 

 Perrottet. 



Stem 1-2 ft., very stout ; clothed with short imbricating amplexicaul sheathing 

 acuminate leaves 2-3 in. long that pass upward into the bracts. Spike 6-8 in. ; 



