64 A^•NALS OP KOrAL BOTAIfIC GARDEN. CALCUTTA.
an erect ligule at the mouth, Stigmatic processes olavate. Pollinia with minute glands.
Capsule shortly pedicelled, J in. long, fusiform, ribs thick.
A Tery conmion, widely difiiised Indian species, and coosefniently very variaUo in stature,
foliaceouB halit and size of the flowers. Forms wbich I have included iinder var. folma, and which
ascend to i',000 feet in the Nilghiris, are very leafy, but shorter, with denser flowers, shorter
bracts and filiform segments of the lip: to it are referable H. foliosa, A. Rich., H. laciniata, Dalz.,
Phtmthcra marginaia. Wall, and Orchis mysoreims, Heyno.
The specimen here figured is noted on the drawing as from "near Darjeeling, October 1S77.
G. King." It represents a plant nearly twice as large as any of the specimens of the species that
I have "seen.
Fig. 1, bract and (low^er-bud ; 2, flower; 3, flower with petals remored?; 4, flower with sepals and petals
lemoTcd; 6. side <iew of flower; 4, polliDia n« enlarged.
PLATE 96.
HABENARIA. {Ate) STESOPETALA, Lindl. Var. polytricha.
n. Etenopetala, Lindl. Gen. and sp. Orchid. 319 (not 32i) ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit.
Ind. vi. 134. . .
Var polytricha; bracteia flores excedentibus, racemo breTi densifloro, sepalis in
aristas ca[iillaceas lamina multo longiores productis, petalorum crm-ibus patentibus
iequilongis setaceis, labelli lobis filiformibus incurvis.
SIKKIII HIMALAYA, at Choongtam, alt. 6,000 ft., J , D. H. NAGA HILLS, Frain.
Differs from the ordinary form of H. stenopdaia in the esaggeratid length and capillary
slendemess of the apices of the sepals, and segments of the Up aad of the petals.
The drawing is made from a dried speeunen ticketed " Naga Hills, No. 79, Jots
Dr. D. Prain, 1886," which was lent me by Dr. Kiog from the Calcutta Herbarium. The
form or netti ly approaching it is found in Sikkim.
PLATE 97.
HABESABIA {Platyglossa) ABIETINA, Jlook. f .
JI. arictina-, caule elato robusto folioso, foliis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis
amplexicaulibus subtua valide costatis, racemo clongato multifloro; bracteis ovato-lanceolatis,
infei-ioxibus foliaceia ovariia longioribua, supeiioribua brevioribus cymbiformibua acuminatis;
floribus amplia virescentibus, sepalis latcralibus ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, dorsali cxim
petalis falcatis basi gibbosia pubescentibus in galeam latam cohcerentibus, labolli 3-pai-titi
seirmentis latcralibus estus pectinatis intermedio lineari. Hook. f . FI. Brit. Ind. vi. 138.
H . pectiiiata, Lindi, Gen. and Sp. Orehid. 341 {non. Don.); Wall, Cat. 7029 ii {in
part), C.
HAB.—TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Simla, alt. 5-8,000 ft., eastward to Sikkim,
asceuding to 10,000 ft. KEASIA HILLS, alt. 5—6,000 ft.
Tiller oblong. Stent 1—2 ft. and upwards, often as thick as a swan's quill below,
grooved, stiff. Leaves 4 - 6 in., 5-nerved, tip usually cm-ved. Maceme 6—10 in., laxly
many-lid. ; lower bracts 2 in., much longer than the ovary, upper half not longer than
A CENTURY OP INDIAN OUCHIDS ; (J. D, EOOEEE). 05
the pedicel, which with the ovary is 1—3 in. long; flowers 2 in. diam. or less.
Sepals and petals variable in breadth, widely spreading. Lip with the lateral lobes
slender, falcato, pectinate with long cilia oil tlie outer marg^m J spur ^—^ in.j slendor.
AniMr short, broad, celis rather ineurvcd, their short tubes upcurved towards the face
of the anther-cells or outwards; pollinia linear, about as hjng as their caudicles or shorterrostellum
confluent with the face o£ the column, stigmatic processes elongate falcate.
Cloidy «EiaJ to IT. p„limh, Don., mi tikm for it by Lindley, who, a oWred in the Hora of
Biitish India, gave thG latter plant the name of H. smifolia. It diffeiii from U. pcctimta in the much
broader and w y gibbons puboBOent petal,, and in tie longer lip. They may proYe to be rarietiei,
for tbey inhabit tlio same monntaina and at about the same elevation, but. as hitherto observed,
apparently keeping their charaeters. Tbe closely alhed II. ma-medm, Don., also of the temperate
Himaiaya, differs in the glabrous petals and long stout spur.
Tbe specimen figured was collected in Sildiim, " Darjeelujg, 16th April 18~G, G. King."
Pis. 1. Horn,, 2, mr r , colua... .nd Hp, 8, don.l ..d J, l.lml ,.pd, ; s, p.t.l. i 6, poUtoi, „¡„,,1.
PLATE 98.
HABEKAEIA {Platughsm) GHNICDLATA. Dm.
B. ¡jmicuUHa-, caule elato folioso superne yaginis ' foliaceis elongatis involuto foliis
sessilibii. ellipticis oblongo.lanccolatisye acntis 6-7-neiTÌis, spica oblon-a p'anci-y
multi-flora, bi-octeis oyano fusiformi rostrato panilo hreyioribus lanoeolatis "acuminatis
sepalis late oyatis acntis, petalis Kneaii.oblongis ; labello oi-biculari y. late obcordato'
lobis lateralibns latis semi-orbiculatis y. dimidiato-cuneatis crenatis y. fimbi-iatis, intermedio
mmnto, calcare gracili ovario multo longiore medio geniculate. Do» FI S
Fred,-. 2a; JTod. f . FI. Brit. Ind. yi. 138. Platanthera geniculata, Unii, ù Wall Cmt
n. 7043.-Habenaria, Grif. NaM. iii. 406, Bin. Note,, 31, No 494 et pi
Aaial. t. 340. -
HAB.-SuBTiiono.LL HiiiALAyA, from Nepal eastwards. KHASIA and NACA DILLS alt
2—5,000 f t . BURMA, Wallich. '
Stem 1 - 3 ft., stout or slender. Lem,, 3-6 in., sheaths long. SpH, 6-10 in
long, 4 -60 fld.; bracts f - l i in., green, peristent; oyary naiTowly furiforni, slightly
decurycd at the tip, thickly ribbed ; flowers f - l in. broad. La b l e in b r e S h
greenrsh.white ; pelals much shorter and narrower, white. 4 white, yery yar able
in breadth, often Ì in. broad, sometimes orbicular with the yeiy small ent L yellow
ovate mid-segment m a terminal notch, at others much broader than long, ,-ith winrhke
sxde-lobes and a tongue-shaped midlohe, which is hardly longer than the sicle-lohes
margins of siJe-lobes erose-crenate or shortly fimbriate; spur much longer than the
ovary, kneed above the middle, the lower portion more or less davate tolards he .tp
Ant,.,- broad, cells divaricate, their tubes npcnrved; glands of pollinia small; stigmaWc
processes elongate, davate, „ai-ginhrg the mouth of the spnr-; rostellum bw taaT
Capala 1 in., shcrtly ^^¡„„„ed, beaked, deeply grooved and thickly ribbed
A very fine species, common in tlie
is inscribed "Mungpo, Silskim, 3,500 ft.,
Pigs- 1 and 2, flowers -.—enlarged.
at low elevations. The dnnring
r-Ootober 1874, G. Eing." • reproduced
ANS. ROY. BOT. GAUD. OALC., Vor.. T.