Hahenaria.'i axLViii. OEOHiDEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 165 



bracts foliaceous, broadly ovate, 1^2 in. long, cymbiform, acuminate ; ovary f in. 

 long, erect, slender, beaked, narrowly winged; sepab erect, f in., ovate-oblong, 

 obtuse, concave ; petals erect, as long, linear, obtuse ; lip as long as the sepals, very 

 coriaceous, triplicate in bud, being folded longitudinally down the middle, with the 

 side lobes appressed to the midlobe, and each also folded down the middle with the 

 concavity inwards, long clawed, cuneately obovate, obtuse, claw geniculate ; side lobes 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, incurved, shorter than the triangular ovate midlobe ; spur 

 pendulous, subelavate; anther broad, bases of cells shortly upcurved ; poUJnia large, 

 pyriform, grains large, caudicles short, glands small orbicular. — The stigmatic pro- 

 cesses differ from those of any other Indian Habenaria, A. Richard figures them 

 as clavate as in most Sabenari(^, but I have never found them so, though I have 

 examined many flowers. The rostellum ? forms a broad triangular acute plate 

 extending across the column, and reaching to the bases of the anther-cells. 



Sect. VIII. DiPHTLAX. (Seep. 133.) 



104. K< urceolata, Olarlce in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 73, t. 30. 

 Diphylax urceolata, Sooh. f. Ic. Plant. 1. 1865. 



SiKKiM HiMAlATA; Takla, alt. 10,000 ft., aud Naga Hills, alt. 9000 ft., 

 Clarice. , > 



Soot unknown. Stem very slender, recurved, with the raceme 4-6 in. high. 

 Leaves one large (2-4i in.) subradical, elliptic.lanceolate, acute, and several small 

 scattered ones alternate higher up, all membranous, 5-7-nerved. Sacemes 2-3 in., 

 decurved ; flowers fecund, A-i in. diam., very shortly pedicelled ; bracts ovate or 

 lanceolate, as long as the short ovary ; sepals white and rosy ; petals 1-nerved ; lip 

 recurved, lanceolate, terminal half solid terete acuminate green, spur inflated, nearly 

 as long as the sepals ; anther beaked, cells contiguous, parallel, poUinia' oblong, 

 grains large, caudicles very short. 



Sect. IX. DiPTLA. (See p. 133.) 



105. K. secundiflora, Sook.f. Ic. Plant, ined. 



Sub- Amine Himalaya; Kumaon, alt. 9-10,000 ft., Dathie. Sikkim, alt. 14,000 

 ft., J. D. E. ; in Chumbi, King's Collector. 



Tubers globose, small. Stem 3-5 in., erect or recurved. Leaves 2-5 in., linear, 

 acuminate, sides complicate, bases sheathing. Spike 1-2 in., more or less recurved, 

 dense-fld.; flowers secund, pink; bracts linear-lanceolate, lower i-| in. longer than 

 the flowers ; ovary i in., curved ; sepals lanceolate, 1-nerved ; petals much narrower, 

 acuminate ; lip as long as the sepals, sessile, linear-oblong, trifid to about the middle, 

 puberulous, strongly-nerved, lobes parallel, lanceolate, acuminate ; spur nearly as 

 long as the sepals, conoidal, slightly contracted at the base, inflated, apex subacute ; 

 anther membranous ; poUinia clavate, grains very large, caudicles short, glands large, 

 cordate, membranous.— The resemblance to fi. urceolata is remarkable ; lobes of the 

 rostellum inflected over the glands of the poUinia like two flaps or doors, whence the 

 name. 



Sect. X. DiTHRix. (See p. 133.)- 



106. K. (Dithrix) declpiens, Sook.f., Ic. Plant, ined.— T3.erwm.\xm, 

 Griff. Notul iii. 270 ; Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 285 f. 1. 



Noeth-West India ; JSdgeworth, alt. 3000 ft. ; Lahul, alt. 4-5000 ft., Thomson.— 

 DiSTEiB. Afghanistan, Gfriffith, (Kew Distrib., 5326.) Kurrum Valley, AitcUson 



No. 322. . , . . -, , , 



Tulers small, oblong. Stem 5-8 in., rather slender, erect .or flexuous, laxly 

 leafy. Leaves 1-2| in., lower larger, elliptic- or linear-oblong, acute or obtuse, mem- 

 branous, lower subpetiolate, upper sessile, bases sheathing. Spike 1-2 in. ; flowers 

 close-set, decurved; bracts ovate-lanceolate, longer than the ovary, membranous; 

 ovary i-A in., curved, and sepals about as long, soft, 1-nerved ; dorsal ovate-lanceolate, 

 obtuse, lateral linear-oblong, tip rounded, petals as long, narrowly lanceolate, sub 



