192 OPHRYDE^.
(he sliap«! of the lip also is very difierent. I ha78 named this plant after Lady Elisabeth Dabiugton
Smith, who kbdly sent me specimens from near Simla in 18D8.
Pl a t e 14Í2. Habenaria Ellsabetbie Diithie. A plant,—0/ naUiral size. Fig. 1, side
view of single flower; 2, fiont view of ditto (spread outj, with the sepals removed; 3,
side view of Hp and spur; 4, polliuiaj—all enlarged.
26. Ha b e n a k u Lawii Hook. f . F L Br. I n d . vi, 162.
Tuhtrs ellipsoid or globose. Stem To to 2'5 dui., slender, witli a few short loose
sheaths below the leaves. Leaves 3 to 5, clustered above the middle of the stem, 7'5
to 10 em. long, narrowly lanccoIate or elliptic, acute, membranous. Spike 0 to 7'5 em.
long, slender, narrow. Flowers veiy small, spreadiug, white; floral Iraci ovate-lanceolato
acuminate, longer than the ovary, membranous. Sepals and petals sub-equal, conoivent,
obtuse. Dorsal sfpal elliptic, the lateral sub-falcately linear-oblong. Petals fleshy. Lip
as long OS the sepals, broadly and obtusely 3-Ed., its claw concave, and with a short
ciliate ridge at its base; spur small, globose. Anther-cells parallel, tubes none; polUnia
obovate, the caudicles as long as the pollinia and attached to minute globular glands.
Staminodes large, petaloid, green tipped with -white. Ovary slender, 6 mm. long, curved
forward at the apex. Feristylus Lawii Wight Ic. 1695; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl, 270;
Kinzl. Orch. Gen. and Sp. 510.
Dehra-Dun, MacJcinnon and Duthie's collectors Nos. 21767, 22727, 23101; below
Landoiu- (Herb. Calc.). Flowers during .7uly and August. Found also on Parasnath
Hill in. Behar at an elevation of 4,200 feet, and in the Chánda district of the Central
Provinces, extending southwards to the Konkan and Mysore.
Pl a t e 143. Habenaria Lawii Hook f . A plant,—0/ natural sizt. Fig. 1, side view
of single flower; 2, ditto with the sepals and petals removed; 8, column, with lip
attached; 4, lip, spread out; 5, anther and staminodes (the latter spread out); 6,
poUinia -i—all enlarged.
27. Habenaeia g o o d t e r o i d e s Don. P r o d . Fl. Nep. 25.
Height of plant 3 to 6 dm. Tubeis ellipsoid or oblong, hairy. Lower portion
of stem with many loose blunt sheaths. Loaves clustered above the middle of the
stem but not whorled, 5 to 10 cm. long, ovate or ovate-elliptic, acute, slightly
narrowed to the shortly sheathed base. Spike 1 to 2 dm., densely flowered, its
peduncle bearing a few lanceolate acuminate bracts. Flowers subsecund, 8 mm. in diam.
at the mouth, deflexed by reason of the curved apex of the ovary, white, sweetscented;
floral hraet narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, about as long as the slender
ovary. Sepals unequal, tinged with brown, the dorsal broadly ovate-lanceolate, concave,
conniving with the petals and forming a hood; lateral pair oblong, involute, apiculate.
Petals as long as the sepals, trapeziform, blunt, lip longer than the petals,
broadly triangular in general outline, the sides rounded, 3-lobed for one-third of its
len-^th; side lobes linear-oblong, falcate, acute and diverging at the apex, slightly
longer than the broad blunt midlobe; upper surface with a small elongate depression
at the base and in front of the minute opening into the spur; spur nearly globular,
much shertcr than the sepals. Column short and broad. Anther-cells pai-allel but not
contiguous, without tubes; pollinia pyriform, caudicles very short, the glands small
UABKNAEIA. 193
and obovoid. Staminodes largo, oblong, spreading outwards at right angles to the
anther. Stigmas two, large, lying beneath and parallel to the staminodes, spreading.
Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 161 (in part); King & Pantling in Ann. E. Bot. Gard.
Calc. viii, 326, t. 430; Collett Fl. Siml. 505. H. ornithoides Wall. MSS., Peristylus
grandis Blume Bijdr, 405. Ilej-minium goodyeroides Lindl, in Wall. Cat. 7066A (in part).
Below Deoban in Jaunsar at 7,600 feet, Osmasion; Dehra Dun, MaaJtinnon;
Mussoorie range up to 6,000 feet, Mackinnon, Duthie Nos. 2315, 21756; Bok Hill in
Garhwal, Duthie's collcctor No. 24169; near Almora in Kumaon at 4,000 feet, Strachey
& Winierbottom No. 33, Duihiah collector Nos. 24059, 24065. Flowers during
July and August. It extends eastwards to Nepal, Pai-asnath in Bengal, SiUkini, Assam,
the Khasia Hills and Manipur.
Var. affinis Lindl, Gen. and Sp. Orch., 300. Much smaller in all its parts
than the type; the lip is rather longer, gibbous at the base, and with broader side
lobes. King & Pantling in Ann. E. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 327, t. 430 bis. H.
afmis Don. Prod. 25. H. goodyeroides in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. (in part). II. saccuaia
Wall. MSS. Peristylus goodyeroides Lindl. Gen. and Sp, Orch. 299; Royle III. Him.
Bot. t. 87, fig. 2; Rolfe in Joum. Linn. Soc. xxxvi, 54 (in part).
In the Chamba State, Punjab Himalaya at 4,000 feet, Lacc No. 1814; Mussoorie
range common between 6,000 and 7,000 feet, Mackinnon, Dutlm Nos. 17826, 21757,
22729; Garhwal, RoyU, King; British Garhwdl at Lansdowne between 4,000 and
5,000 feet, Roberts. Flowers during August. It extends eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim,
and to the Khasia and Naga Hills.
28. Habenaria consteicta Wall, ex Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. 161.
Ttibers oblong, hairy. Stem stout, 5 to 7'5 dm. high, clothed at the base with
wide blunt sheaths. Leaves five or six, at the upper portion of the stem, mote or less
whorled, 7'0 to 17"5 cm. long, ovate-elliptic, acute or acununate, much naiTowed
towards the long sheaths; bracts on u]Dper part of stem lincar-lanceolato, acuminate.
Spike broadlj' cyUndric, 2 to 4 dm, long, many- and densely-flowered. Flowers spreading,
white, sweet-scented, r 9 to 2'3 cm. across; floral hraci ercct, lanceolate, acuminate,
about as long as the erect ovary. Sepals about equal, oblong, obtuse, ciliolatethe
dorsal conduplicate; the lateral pair spreading, their margins involute. Petals
lai'ger than the sepals, obliquely ovate-lanceolato, bluntly acuminate, somewhat gibbous
on the lower side, spreadiug upwards in front of the dorsal sepal, but not conniving
with it to form a hood. Lip as long as the petals, oblong, 3-lobed to about the
middle; lateral lobes linear, acuminate, somewhat diverging at their apices; midlobe
shorter, oblong, tapering to a blunt point. Column very short and bread. Anther-cells
close together but not contiguous, without tubes; pollinia obovoid; the caudicles
short, tapering to tho oblong-elliptic gland. Staminodes oblong, obtuse. Siigmas two,
obovate-oblong, spreadiug. King & Pantling in Ann. E. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii,
325, t. 429. Plataiithera constricta Lindl. in. Wall. Cat. 7043. Hai. goodyeroides Lindl.
in Wall. Cat. 7066B. (not of Don). Eo-minium constrictum Lindl. in Bot. Reg. under
1449. Peristylus consHotus Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 300; Krnzl. Orch. Gen. and
Sp. I, 508. Orchis Icucantha Herb. Ham.
Ann. Ro t . Bot. Ixard., Calc. , Yol. JX,