jQ^ Ol'EílYDliyü.
Delira Dun in sál forest, Mackinnon; Siwalik range, Duthie's collector No. 24276 ;
Sarju Valley ia Kumaon, Ihithieh colledor No, 24060. Flowers during July ani
August. Found also in Sikkioi, on the Khasia Hills, Assam, Chittagong, and in Upper
and Lower Burma.
29. IIABENAEIA GALEANDKA Bentb. Fl. Hongk. 363.
Tubers samll, globose or oblong. Stm 1-5 to 3 dm. high, slender, glabrous or
puberuloua, usually tinged with purple, the lower portion bearing a few loose tubular
Bheatbs. Leaves 3 to 5'5 cm. long, oblong-lanceolate, blunt or sub-acute, narrowed to
the base and amplexicaul, dark green above, and usually with a bright purple band
down the centre. Sjotic 1 to 1-5 dm,, many-flowered; Jlofal brads leaflike, much
longer than the flowers, diminishing upwards. Flowers about 12 mm. in diam., pale
purple. Sepals and petals ovate-lanceolate, acuminatc. Dorsal sepal erect, the lateral
pair spreading, sub-falcate. Petals rather shorter than the sepals, conniving with the
dorsal one. Lip broad, cuneiformly obovate or obcordate, often muci-onate, shortly
clawed, side? erect, upper surface puberulous at the base; sptir stout, about half as
long as the ovary. Anther-cells approximate; poUinia narrowly obovate, caudicles short,
tapering into the elongate flat glands. Staminodes distinct, curving forward and in front
of the anther-tubes. Ovary curved, the ribs browaish purple and puberulous. Hook.
/ . FI. Br. Ind. vi, 163: Collett Fl. Siinl. 506. Platanthera ohcordata Litidl. in Wall.
Cat. 7050; Gen. and Sp. Orch. 890; Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc- sxxvi, 56.
P. galeandra Reiehb. f. in Linnica ssv, 226. P. Championi Liitdl. in Hook. Journ
Hot. vii, 38. Gymnadenia ohcordata and galeandra Rcichb. f. Ot. Bot. Hamb. 32, 33,
Orchis ohcord-ita Buch.-Ham. in Don Prod. 230. 0. Sttsannw, Herb. Heyne.
Simla Hills, Stoliczka, Collett; Mussoorie range between 5,000 and 7,000 feet,
Vkary, Mackinnon, Duthie Nos. 2575, 21755, 22732; Garhwál, Falconer, Royh; British
Gai-hwál near Lansdowne, Rohcrls; Kumaon 7,000 feet, Strache;/ & Winierloitom
No. 4 0 ; T. Thomson, Colonel Davidson, DutJde's collector No. 2i064. Flowers in August.
I t extends eastwards to Nepal, Khasia and Naga Hills, Upper Burma and China.
No record from Sikkim.
PLATE 144.—Habenaria galeandra Benth. A plant,—O/ natural sise. Fig. 1, side view
of Sower; 2, front view of column, with lip attached (the latter spread out); 3, front
view of column, further enlarged; 4, pollitiia;—all enlarged.
30. HABENAEIA SEOTNDIFLORA Hook. f. Ic. PI. 2321.
Plant 1 to 2-5 dm. high ; lubers ellipsoid. Stem with a few small sheaths at the
base. Leaves two or three, distant 5 to 12-5 cm., linear, acuminate, scarcely narrowed
to the tubular sheath. Bracts below the raceme linear, acuminate. Raceme up to 1
dm. in length. Flowers secund, rather crowded, 9 mm, long, pink; floral bract lanceolate,
acuminate, the margins ciliolate, the lower ones much longer than the curved tumid
: ovary. Sepals sub-equal, lanceolate. Petals linear, sub-acute, falcate, minutely
connivent with the three sepals to form a hood over the column. Lip as
the sepals, deflexed, widening towards the 3-lobed apex; lateral lobes triangular,
not diverging; midlobe larger, oblong, acute; spur shorter than the ovary, rather
HABENARIA. 195
broadly conical from a contracted base, its apex blunt. Column long. Anther eclU
parallel, contiguous; polVmia oblong-obovoid; caudicles short, stout; glands large, lanceolate,
acuminate, united for half their length by their inner edges. Staminodes oblong,
ruguloae. Infertile stigma large, erect, 2-lobed, each lobe falcately oblanceolate and
covering the base of the anther. Fertile stigmas united, transversely oblong, forming
a horizontal band below the infertile one. Hook f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 165 ; King &
Pantling in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc., viii, 330, t. 433. Peristylus seeundiflorm Krnzl.
Orch. Gen. and Sp. i, 618.
I n a forest near Sosa in Eastern Kumaon between 9,000 and 10,000 feet, Duthie
No. 3421. Flowers in September. It has been collected also in Sikkim, Bhutan and
in E. Tibet,
This speoies bears a striking resemblance to IT. urceolata; moreover, in both of them, the
Btigma? are united and the iaflorOBoenee is seound. In S. sectmdiflora the sepals aud petals are
connivent, and together form a hood over the blunt column; the Hp is 3-lobed, and the polliniar
glands are luiited,, This cohesion of the glands oocure also in E. plantaginea; but, as has been
pointed out under that species, tbey ultimately separate.
31. HABiiNARiA GEimTHii Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 197; Ic. PI. 2322.
Tuhers small, oblong. Stem 1-5 to 3 dm. high, slender, straight or flexuous, few
leaved. Leaves 2-5 to 6 cm. long, elliptic or linear-oblong, acute or obtuse, n
branous, the lower subpetioled. Spihe secund, 2*5 to 6 cm long, densely flowered
Flowci-s very small, white, deflexed; floral bract, ovate-Unceolato, variable in length
Sepals and petals 3 mm. long, spreading at their tips. Dorsal sepal ovate-lanceolate
obtuse, the lateral pair obliquely linear-oblong. Petals linear-lanceolate. Lip 4 mm. long,
oblong, 3-fid. at the apex; side lobes divaricate, obtuse; midlobe longer and broader;
spur very short, and slightly curved outwards. Anther broad, rounded or retuse at
the apex, cells diverging at the base; pollinia obovate," the caudicles. short and very
slender, glands minute. Slamimdes two, filiform, usually longer than the anther, attached
to the base and back of each cell. Rostellum forked, its branches diverging beneath
the anther-cells. Capsule 8 mm. long, oval, shortly stalked, the ribs thick. B. decipiens
Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 165 (not of Wight). Diphylax OrifflthH Krnzl. Orch. Gen.
and Sp. i, 599. Eermimum Griff. Notul, iii, 270; Ic. PI. As. t. 285, fig. 1.
Bundai in the Chitral district at 4,000 feet, JIarriss (Duthie's Nos. 1667, 1668)
Jhelam Valley in Kashmir between 5,000 and 6,000 feet, Duthie No. 10926; Lahul
between 4,000 and 5,000 feet, T. Thomson; below Simla at 3,000 feet, Edgewwth;
Tutwa Gddli in Jaunsar between 3,000 and 4,000 feet, Gleadow ; Asno in T. Garhwal,
Gamble No. 25490 (under Goodyci-a); Mussoorie range 6 to 7,000 feet, King (under
Zeuxine), Mackinnon. (Duthie's Nos. 22733, 24170). Flowers from March to May.
Tliis remarkable speoies was found originally by Griffith in Afghanistan (Kew Distrib.
No. 53i!6), It was collected maoy years afterwoi-ds by Dr. Aitobison in the Kurram Tnlley (his
number 322). The difficulty in deternuQing its floral stnieture from herbarium specimens was the
cause of this speoies having been referred at difEerent. times to no fewer than eight genera. It
tears a strong outward reserablance to SpiraiUhes, under which genus Griffith's specimens were proviaionally
placed. In Gleadow's specimens, collected in Jaunsar, the staminodes are not longer than
the anther, and the brauohes of the rostellum, instead of spreading laterally, are directed forwards;
also they are flat with wide bases and incurved at their apices.
AMN. EOY. BOT. GABD., CALC., VOL. I S.