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flowers with fimbriate (or glandular) lateral petals and a lip with 2 long 

 wing-like central lamella3. This is less closely allied to G. orobanchoides, 

 Benth., which has erect flowers and a ventricose sepaline tube. It 

 agi'ees with G. ehtta, Blume, in having two callosities on the claw of the 

 lip. Dedicated to Mr. W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.R.S., C.M.G., C.I.E., 

 Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew. 



Ophrydeae. 

 HABENARIA, Willd. 



Habenaria Biermanniana, n. spec. Height of plant 9 to 15 in. ; 

 tubers cylindric-ovoid, P25 in. long, sparsely hairy. Leaves, 4 or 5, 

 cauline, scattered, amplexicaul, lanceolate, acute, boldly nerved, 2 to 3 

 in. long. Spike 4 in. long, rather sparsely flowered ; bracts linear- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, exceeding the sessile and scarcely beaked ovaries. 

 Flowers '3 in. long. Sepals &rid petals sub-equal ; sepals ovate, lanceolate, 

 with oblique bases, concave, sub-acute, cohering and, with the triangular- 

 lanceolate petals, forming a hood from the base of which the lip and 

 spur projects. Lip fleshy, linear-oblong, tapering slightly to the obtuse 

 apex, the side-lobes minute and tooth-like ; spur about as long as the 

 lip, curved, sub-obovate, dorsally compr-essed. Column arching over 

 the mouth of the spur. Caudicles slightly shorter than the obovoid 

 pollinia ; gland short, linear-oblong. 



Sikkim : on Sinchal ; at an elevation of 8,000 feet : flowering in July. 



A very distinct species dedicated to the memory of the late Adolf 

 Biermann, for many years resident on the Government Cinchona Planta- 

 tion in Sikkim, and who died as Curator of the Botanic Gax^den, 

 Calcutta. 



Habenaria Cumminsiana, n. spec. Height of plant about 9 in. 

 Leaves 2 to 4, unequal, crowded in the lower part of the stem with a 

 smaller one a little below the spike, broadly elliptic to lanceolate, rather 

 thick, 2 to 3 in. long and 1 to 1*5 in. broad. Stem angled between the 

 small uppermost bract-like leaf and the base of the spike. Spike 3 in. 

 long, rather densely-flowered, bracts longer than the slender beaked 

 ovaries, their edges ciliolate. Floivers (to the tip of the spur) *75 in. 

 long. Dorsal sepal :>vate "25 in. long; the laterals narrower, wide-spread- 

 ing, their edges ciliolate, '4 in. long. Petals fleshy, slightly exceeding 

 the dorsal sepal, triangular, sub-falcate, the inner edge irregularly 

 crenate near the base, the outer edge entire, the apex sub-acute, the 

 base truncate. Lip very fleshy, without side-lobes, longer than the 

 lateral sepals, almost cylindric, abruptly deflexed from the thin flattened 

 base ( ? claw), the surface of the cylindric part slightly carunculate: 



