•^••¿b OECi nDS 0 ? THE SI SKI M-H l i t A t AT A.
conniving with it to form a hoo3. Lip as long as the petals, obloug, deeply S-Iobai
iu its anterior half; ths middle lobj shorter than the side lohos, oblong, tapsriug to a
blunt point; the lateral lobos linear, slightly falcate, their apices slightly diverging; spur
broadly globular, very short, much shortsr than tha sepals, slightly compressed vertically.
Colmn-i very short and broad. Anth,•-cells rather close together, but not toucliing, without
tub;js; pollinia obloag-o'jovoid, th-Jiir caudicles short, tapering to the oblong-elhptic
gland; stamlnocles oblong with blunt onds, situated externally to the author-cells. Stigims
two, obovate-oblong, diverging outwards from near the polliaiar glands. Platanthcra
constricia, Lindl. in "VVall. Cat. 7043. II. goodueroidcs, Don in Wall. Cat. 7066B.
Ilerminium const,-idum, Lindl. ia Bot. Reg. under t. 1449. Pemii/hs coiisirtciiisy Lindl.
Gon. and Spec. Orch., 300. Ojv/iis leucaniha, Herb. Ilam.
Siki<im, at Brip, 1,-500 feet; King. Valley of the Teesta, at Sivoke, elevation 1,000
f i o t ; in flower daring June and July; Pantling No. 447. Khasia Hills, elevation 2,000
to 4,000 feet; Lobb, Griffith (Kcw Distrib. No. 5305), Mann. Assam; Jenkins, Masters,
Simons. Chittagong; "VVallich. Burmi (Tenasserim); Heifer (Kew Distrib.) No. 5357,
Falconer, ]?randis, Kuvz, Scotfc. Upper Burma, at JIaymyo; Calcutta Bot. Gard.
Collectors No. 124.
The colour of the sepals is pale brown and that of the petals and lip pure white,
the spur of the latter being green.
Tiie suppressed stigma in this species is bifid, and a polliuiar gland is attached to
each half of it.
TLATE iiQ.Suhcnaria oonstrisia, Hook. fil. A plant, of natural aisj. Fig. I a flower, 2 apes of
ovary and columu with the globose spur of the lip still attached, showing the aather-cells with, their
poUinLar glands (p g), the staminodes (c), the stigmas («), and the entranoa to the spur {>•), 3 the lip
flattened out, 4 bract, ovary, colutna and spur, eiik view, 5 section of spur, 6 poUinia; all enlarged.
27. HABENARIA GOODTEEOIDESJ Don Prod. Fl. Nep., 25.
Height of entire plant 12 to 24 in., the iiilers ellipsoid or oblong, hairy. Stem
clothed at the base with las rather blunt sheaths. Leaves close together a little below
the summit of the stem but not whorled, sub-coriaceous, ovate or ovate-elliptic, acute,
slightly narrowed to the shortly sheatliing base; somewhat pale on tlie under surface
wlien dry; length 2 to 4 in., breadth 1-25 to 2 in.; peduncle of the spike naked,
cxcept for one or two lanceolate acuminate bracts about '5 in. long. Spiks 4 to 8 in.
long, many- and densely-flowered. Flowers -3 ia. in diam. at the mouth; fioral bract
narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, about as long as the sessile ovary. SipaU unequal; tiie
dorsal broadly ovate-lanceolate, concave, conniving with the petals to form a hood; the
lateral pair oblong, involute, all apiculafe. Petals as long as the sepals, trapeziform,
blunt. Lip longer than the patals, in general outline broadly triangular, but the sides
rounded; the anterior third 3-lobed; the middle lobs broad, tapering to the blunt apex;
the side lobes linear--oblong, falcate, their apices acute and diverging, slightly longer
than tlie middle lobe; spur short, sub-globular, saccate, much shorter than the sepals; the
upper surface of the lip with an oblong speckled nectar-secreting depression at tiie base
in front of the minute opening into the spur. Column short, broad. Anther-cells parallel,
sepai-ated by a narrow space, without tubes; pollinia broadly pyriform, the caudicles
very short, the glands small, obovoid. Staminodes large, oblong, at right angles to the
anther, but directed outwards. Stigmas two, beneath and parallel to the staminodes,
UABEKAEIA. 32 7
oblong with expanded apices, large. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 161 {in part).
E. oniithoidcs, Wall. MSS. ? Pcristghs grandis, Blume Bijdi-. 405. Eemiinitm goodym-oides,
Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7066A {in part).
Sikkim, at Mungpoo, elevation 3,000 feet; at Sivoke, 1,000 feet; Pantling No. 231,
Anderson No. 1197; in flower from May to July. Nepal; Wallich (at Puspulnath iu
August). Behar {on Parisnath); T. Anderson. Ghai-wal, at Mussomie; King. Manipur;
Watt 6028. Khasia Hills; Hooker and Thomson, G. Mann, Nos. and and 377.
Assam; Fisher.
The flowers are sweetly-scented, and they are white or cream-coloured, tho sepals
being tinged with brown. The infertile stigma in this species also is bifid.
Var. affinis, Lindl., Gen. and Spec. Orch., 300. At least a third smaller than the
typical form in all its parts; -with a rather longer lip, gibbous at the base, and with
broader side lobes. Euhenaria afmis, Don Prod. Fl. Nep. 25. 11. goodyeroides, in Hook,
fil. Fl. Br. Ind., 161. U. sacculata, Wall. MSS. Peristylus goodyeroides, Lindl. Gen. and
Spcc. Orck, 299; Royle Illust. Him. Bot,, t. 87, fig, 2.
Sikkim, in the western pai-t of the province, at an elevation of 2,000 feet; in
flower dm-ing June; Pantling No. 453. Nepal; Wallich (at Toka in flower diuing
July) Cat. 7066A. Ghai-wal; Royle, King. Khasia Hills; Clarke No. 44420; Maun,
Nos. 5, 13. Naga Hills; Prain No. 66.
The flowers are usually of the same colour as in the typical form, but occasionally
they appear to be more green.
This species and tho vaa-iety given above were originally described as species
b y D. Don on specimens which existed in tho herbarium of Daniel Bourke Lambert.
The original specimens have, however, been lost, and tlie oldest specimens known to
botanists arc those which were issued by WalKch as No. 7066A. of his distribution
and catalogue (7066B is another species, viz., II. eomtricta). In making his distribution
of tho orchids of the Wallichian Herbarium, Lindley overlooked Don's H. ajfaie, and
he distributed both it and II. goodyeroides under tho name Pcristyhs goodyeroides.
Wallich, however, when ho collected the plants which Lindley ultimately distributed
as 70GGA, rccognised that they were difierent. To one set of tiiese, collected iu
J u l y 1821 at Toka, he gave the MSS. name Ilaienaria saccidaia, Wall. To the other,
collected at Puspukath in Ang-ust of the same year, he gave the name Ilaienaria
ornitkoides, Wall. A very carcful examination of the Wallichian slieets numbered 7066A
as they exist iu tho type set at the Linniean Society's rooms, in the Herbaiium at Kew,
and iu that at Calcutta, was made by Dr. D. Prain, Cui'ator of tho Calcutta Herbarium,
whose note on the subject we here. ix?produce, on account both of its excellence botanically,
and of tho cuiious piece of herbarium history wliich it puts on record. The note is
as follows:—
" As I discovered when I consulted the type Herbarium at the Linnfeaa Society, No. 706JB ia
really E. covstncta, Hook. fil. But 7UG6A turns out, as I had siispectod, to be a melauga of two
gatherings. One of these was got at Toka in July lb21, and in the field Dr. Wallich named it JTaLenaria
sacciilaia; the other '«•as got ut Puspuluatb, August 18il, and Dr. Wallich named it if.
Cleai'ly ho thought the two difierent wheu he gathered them. Both were, however, distributed together
when his Herbai'ium was issued. Luckily for us we have both plants at Calcutta, so that we are in a
position to dear up tho matter thoroughly. At Kew there is only the August gathering; in Herbaiium
Lirdley, on the other Latd, tLcre is only the July gathering of 7066.