li 176 OPHRYDK^;.
Stigmatic processes distinct,
Spar longer than the ovary, flexuous.
Petals yello-w, erect; spur rather stout, usually
upturned ... ... ••• ••• Edgeicorthii.
Petals greon, spreading; spur slender, usually
deflexed ... - ... •.- E. laiilabrk.
Spm- much shorter than the ovary, olavat« ... SI. E. densa.
Sfigmatiu processes none.
Lip linear, spur much longer than the ovary ••• SS. E, arcuata.
L i p oblong, its apes tridentate; spur much shorter
than the ovary ... ••• ... SS. E. diidis.
Sect. V. PEKISTVLUS,—Petals entire, lip slightly or not at all
longer than the sepals, 3-Iohed; spur very short, often
sub-globose.
Flowers green.
Leaf solitai'y, lip flat ... ... ... Si. E. fallax.
Leaves 3 or 3, lower half of lip trough-shaped ... So. E. Elkabethai.
Flowers white, leaves clustered above the middle of
the stem.
Leaves narrowly lanceolate or elliptic, acute, tubers
glabrous ... -.. ••• ••• E. Latcii.
Leaves ovate or ovate-elliptic, tubers hairy.
Flowers in a las subseeund spike .,, 27. S . goodyeroides.
Flowers in a dense cylindrical spike ... E. constrieia.
Seal. VI. PHYLLOSTACHTA.—Flowers large, in the axils of sheathing
leaves, petals entire; lip broad, entire, petaloid,
spur eonico-infundibular: stigmatic processes none,
rostellum obscure ... ... ... ... E. gaUandi-a.
Seel. VII. DIPVLA.—Flowers small, secirad, lip 3-fid., spur in-
Sated, pollinia sessile on a single large obcordate gland
seated in a sinus of the broad 2-lobed rostellum,
stigmatio process small ... .-- ••• 30. E. sscundijiora.
Sect. vm. DITJIRIS.—Flowers small, secund, tubular, sepals
petals and lip coherent at the base; lip obleng, 3-fid,
base saccate ; staminodes 2, filiform, capitate, inserted on
the back of the anther, stigma a transverse cushion,
rostellum a transverse plate below the anther ... 31. E. Qriffithii.
1. HABENAHIA STENOPETATA Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 334.
Heio'lit of whole plant 3 to lO'o dm.; basal third of stem clothed with tight
fitting sheaths. Leaves distributed over the upper two-thirds of the stem, 7-5 to 20
cm. long, oblong-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolato, acute, the edges undulate, amplexicaul or
sheathing and usually broad at the base, membranous; the upper ones much smaller
and bi-act-like. Racemc 1 to 2'3 dm., densely flowered. Fhwen 2 to 3-5 cm. across,
pale green; floral Iraet lanccolate, acuminate, about as long as the slender stalked
ovaiy. Sepals sabequal, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, spreading or reflexed. Petals
shorter than the sepals, linear, their bases produced downwards below the point of
insertion. Lip 3-partite, as long as the petals, brown ; segments narrow, fleshy, the central
one horizontal; basal pair usually shorter, deflexed; ajjur slender, as loug as the
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stalked ovary, compressed, 2-ridged, upturned. Column stout. Anthsr-cells erect, distant,
parallel, narrow, with long tubes; pollinia oblong, with long slender curved caudiclea
attached to minute glands. Staminodes ovate, rugulose, on the outside of each anthercell
and stigma. Siigmas two, obloug, with slightly divergent blunt apices, placed
belovf the anthers and at the margins of the month of the spur. Capsule linearoblong.
Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 134; in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Cale, v, t. 95;
King & Pantling in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Cale, viii, 308, t. 404. Krantzlin in
Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvi, 162; Orch. Gen. and Sp. i, 358.
N.-W. India, Royle; Mussoorie 5 to 6,000 feet, Duthie, Mackinnon [Duthie's
No. 22980(a)]; below Museoorie 4,000 feet, GoUan; below Naiui Tal 3,000 feet,
C. W. Hope. Flowers in September. It extends eastwai-ds to Bengal, Sikkim, Assam
and the Naga Hills.
2. HABENARIA DIGITATA Lindl, Gen. and Sp. Orch. 307.
Height of plant 3 to 5 dm. Stem stout, cyliadrical, lower portion clothed with
close-fitting sheaths. Leaves 4 to 6 cm. long by 3 to 4 cm. broad, collected chiefly
towards the middle of the stem, broadly lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate,
3-nerved, the edges much undulate. Racemc laxly many-flowered, about 1 dm. long,
elongating in fruit. Flowers subsecand, about 13 mm. in diam., green; fiorai hract
narrowly lanceolate, longer than the slender ovary, pale-margined. Sepals unequal,
the dorsal one erect, suborbicular, its apex bluatly acuminate and recurved, minuteJy
pustulate on the back; lateral pair rather longer, deflexed, subfalcate, with slender
filiform recurved tips. Petals deeply 2-partite; segments linear, fleshy, white towards
the base and with slender recurved green tips. Lip 3-partite, the lateral segments a
little longer than the petals; midiobe linear, straight, longer thao the dccarved lateral,
ones. Spur shorter than the ovary, laterally compressed aud davate towards tJie apex.
Anther-cells distant, divaricate, with prominent incurved tubes. Staminodes globose,
tuberculate, bright green, placed outside and at the base of each anther-lobe; pollinia,
2, obliquely ovate in outline; caudiclea slender, dilated towards their bases and attached
to small ovate brownish-yellow glands. Siigmaiic processes subcylindrical, blunt, recurved,
the entrance to the spur lying between their bases. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 267 ;
Krantzlin in Engl. Jahrb. xvi, 67; Orch. Gen. and Sp. i, 270; Hook. f. Fl. Br.
Ind. vi, 134 (excl. H. trinervia Wight). E. Gilsoni Hook. f. Ic. PI. 2319; Fl. Br. Ind.
vi, 135. Bonatea punduana Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7063, B. ienghalensis Griff, in Cale.
Joum. Nat. Hist, iv, 382; B. herhacea Wall. MSS.
Kashmir, Falconer; Dehra Dun in sài forests, Mackinnon (Duthie's No. 22728),
Kansrao (Dehm Dun), Duthie^s collector No. 24177 ; Mussoorie Hills, Hagel, Duthie, 637
(1877), Mackinnon (Duthie's Nos. 21758, 24178); Bagoswar in Kumaon,
collector No. 24063. Flowers during July. It extends eastwards to Bengal and
Assam and southwards to Bombay and S. India aud Tenasserim; also found in N.
Australia.
E. trinervia "Wight, which in the " Flora of British India " has been reduced to this species, although
oloeely allied, differs sufficiently to justify its separation. The leaves of the former are more scattered and
extend higher up the stem towards the raceme ; the lateral sepals ore erect and have not the slender almost
hliiorm tips of E. digitata; the lobes oi the petals ave not decurved, and the throe lobes of the lip are nearly
parallel and about equal in length. The flowers of H, digitata have a peculiarly pungent odour resembling
that of YakrianaW allichii.
A«K. ROY. BOT. GAUD , CALC., YOL. IX.