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3895.] G. King & R. Pantling—New Orchids from Sikkim. 
flowers with, fimbriate (or glandular) lateral petals and a lip with 2 long 
wing-like central lamellee. This is less closely allied to G. orohanclioides , 
Benth., which has erect flowers and a ventricose sepaline tube. It 
agrees with G. elata, Blume, in having two callosities on the claw of tlie 
lip. Dedicated to Mr. W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.R.S., C.M.G., C.I.E., 
Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew. 
Ophrydese. 
HABENARIA, Willd. 
Habenaria Biermanniana, n. spec. Height of plant 9 to 15 in.; 
tubers cylindric-ovoid, 1'25 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. 
Floivers ‘3 in. long. Sepals and 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 compressed. 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 Garden, 
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. Flowers (to the tip of the spur) *75 in. 
long. Dorsal sepal ovate *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: 
