504 ME. H. S. BIDLEY ON THE 



lanceolato obtuso integro, basi concavo, apice caruosulo ; cal- 

 care nullo vel brevissime sacculato ; columna brevissima crassa ; 

 lob is stigmaticis parris obtusis. 



Montes Ankaratra in paludosis, Jan. 1881, Ilildebrandt 

 no. 3860 ! ; Imerina, in paludosis Aukafana (icon.), Deans 

 Cowan I Hilsenberg § Bojerl in Herb. Brit. Mus. 



Although this plant often has a very short sac-shaped spur, 

 yet, as in other respects it resembles the genus Her minium, I feel 

 coiupelled to refer it here. It differs from 11. spirale, Reichb. f., in 

 its narrow grassy leaves and the arrangement of the flowers, which 

 are very small, yellow, numerous, and crowded with short blunt 

 petals and sepals, and a small ovate lip curiously excavate at the 

 ba?e, with the edges revolute and slightly thickened, and the apex 

 thick and fleshy. The whole plant dries black. 



Habenabiafilifoumis. — Pcristylus filiformis, Kranzlin, Verh. 

 Brem. vii. p. 258, must be allied to this plant. It was obtained 

 near Antananarivo by Eutenberg. 



H. geamtnea, Spreng. Syst. iii. p, 390 ; Bojer, Hort. Maur. 

 p. 310 ; Kranzlin, Verh. Brem. vii. p. 259. — Platan thera graminea, 

 Bindley, Gen. et Sp. Orch. PL p. 292. — Satyrium gramineum, 

 Thouars, Orch. lies Afr. t. G. — Pcristylus gramineus, S. Moore, 

 in Flor. Maur. Sf Scych. p. 336. It was originally discovered in 

 Madagascar by Thouars, and later by Putenberg at Ambato- 

 mainty. It is also recorded from Mauritius by Bojer. 



§ Euhabenaria. 



H. papillosa, n. sp. ; tuberibus parvis ovalibus ; caule erecto 

 gracillimo, pedali vel ultra; foliia radicalibus nullia vel uno 

 parvo lanceolato-acuminato ; eaulinis linearibus acuminatis re- 

 motis; racemossepiuscompactoplurifloro; floribus minimis; brac- 

 teis lanceolatis acuminatis, ovario suba?quantibus ; sepalo postico 

 oblongo ovato obtusissimo, lateralibus ovatis lanceolatis obtusis 

 erectis ; petalis brevioribus acutioribus ; labello oblongo, quam 

 sepala lateralia breviore, deflexo trilobo pubeseente ; lobis late- 

 ralibus pcrparvis nonnunquam vix distinctis, medio oblongo 

 obtuso; calcare brevi eylindrico, | ovarii rcquante, obtuso; 

 columna brevissima, processubus stigmaticis crassiusculis brevi- 

 bus papillosis. 



Montes Ankaratra, Jan. 1881, Hildcbrandt no. 3860!; Imerina, 

 Deans Cowan ! in Herb. Brit. Mus. 



