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156 BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS OF KASHMIR [Plate 56<br />
Fig. 3. Listera kashmiriana, Duthie.<br />
One foot high more or less, terrestrial. Boot-fibres stout,<br />
crowded. Stem stout, hairless, lower portion enveloped by<br />
3 or 4 large, loose, blunt sheaths. Leaves none. Baceme<br />
laxly many-flowered ;<br />
bracts below the lowest flowers few,<br />
linear-oblong, sharp-pointed. Flowers spreading, 4 in. long<br />
from the base of the slender pedicel to the summits of the<br />
sepals and petals, yellowish brown. Sepals and petals rV in.<br />
long, slightly hairy lateral<br />
;<br />
sepals obliquely egg-shaped, longpointed.<br />
Petals rather obliquely spoon-shaped, rounded at<br />
the tip. Lip twice as long as the sepals, divided at the tip<br />
into 2 spreading blunt small lobes, the margins ciliate except<br />
towards the tapering base, upper surface with a stout central<br />
callus. Ovary curved, egg-shaped, glandular-hairy.<br />
Eesembles L. Lindleyana, but the shape of the petals<br />
distinguishes it.<br />
Flowers. August.<br />
Locality. Sonamarg ;<br />
Liddar Valley, 8,000-9,000 ft.<br />
Distribution. Apparently endemic in Kashmir.<br />
Fig. 4. Listera Lindleyana, King & Pantling (<br />
= Neottia<br />
Listeroides, LindU.<br />
(After John Liridley, 1799-1885, botanical writer.)<br />
A terrestrial herb, |-lf in. high. Boot-fibres rather stout<br />
and brittle. Stem longer than the raceme, stout or slender,<br />
bearing 3 or 4 loose, blunt sheaths about 1 in. long, nearly<br />
hairless below, its upper portion together with the raceme<br />
glandular-hairy. Leaves none. Flowers dull yellowish green,<br />
J-4 in. long, lax ;<br />
bract egg-shaped-oblong, variable in length.<br />
Sepals elliptic-egg-shaped, concave, the lateral ones somewhat<br />
sickle-shaped. Petals much narrower. Lip<br />
twice or thrice<br />
as long as the sepals, narrowly inversely egg-shaped-oblong,<br />
brown, the tip cleft into 2 oblong or lance-shaped lobes ; upper<br />
surface minutely hairy and with a greenish -coloured linear<br />
groove which forms a ridge on the back. Fruit J in. long,<br />
broadly elliptic, pedicel about as long.<br />
Flowers. May- September.<br />
Locality. Dachigam Bakh, in dense, shady thickets.<br />
Distribution. Chitral, throughout the W. Himalaya from<br />
Hazara and Kashmir, 5,000-11,000 ft., to Nepal and Sikkim.
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