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This plant is chiefly remarkable for the absence in most speci- 

 mens of radical leaves. Only one example have I seen with any, 

 and that had but one lanceolate leaf | an inch long. There are, 

 however, a few small stem-leaves, lanceolate-acuminate. The 

 flowers are small, and arranged in an unusually compact spike. 

 The lip is short, pubescent, and blunt, faintly three-lobed, the 

 lateral lobes being often hardly more than denoted by notches. 

 The stigmatic processes are short and thick, and closely covered 

 with rather large papillae ; and there are also little lateral papillose 

 wings to the column, which is very short. The apices of the 

 anther are very short, but the lobes are very deeply divided. 

 The spur is short, only one fourth of the ovary. The flowers 

 appear to be light-coloured, but the lip is dark pink. 



Closely allied to this plant must be TI. depmiperata, Kranzlin, 

 Yerh. Brem. vii. p. 259, collected by Perville at Ambongo and 

 Efitra by Butenberg. I have seen no specimens ; but it appears 

 to differ in the entire lip, the form of the anther, and laxer and 

 fewer-flowered raceme. 



Habenaria tekerrima, n. sp. — Pusilla; foliis 2-3 radicalibus 

 lineari-lanceolatis acutis brevibus ; caule gracili, vaginis 1-2 

 remotis ampliatis ; racemo laxo paucifloro (7) ; floribus parvis; 

 bracteis lanceolatis, breviter acuminatis, ovario dimidio aequau- 

 tibus; sepalis petalisque lanceolatis obliquis obtusiuscults; 

 petalis brevioribus; labello cuneato emarginato pubescente, 

 marginibus ad basin incrassatis reflexis ; calcare infundibuliformi 

 leviter curvo, versus apicem seusim attenuato, dimidio ovarii 

 aequali, processubus stigmaticis brevibus crassis rectis. 



Andrangoloaka, E. Imerina, in paludibus, Nov. 1880, Hilde- 

 brandt no. 3732 ! in Herb. Brit. Mus. 



A small species, from 4 to G inches tall, with a few narrow lan- 

 ceolate leaves J inch long, and a lax raceme of at moat seven 

 apparently rose-coloured small flowers. 



H. imerineksis, n. Bp.; radicibus copiosis longis ; foliis lan- 

 ceolatis spathulatis cuspidatis flaccidis, basi angustatis ; caule 

 gracili pedali vel paullo ultra, 3-vaginato, vaginis ampliatis acu- 

 minatis, racemo laxo; floribus 8-13 roseis ; bracteis lanceolatis 

 acuminatis, ovarii dimidio stantibus; sepalo postico ad petala 

 omnino adnata, galeam obtusam formante, lateralibus ovatis 

 obtusisdeflexis; labello trilobo, lobis lateralibus parvis obtus.s, 

 medio elongate lineari acutiusculo porrecto; calcare pendulo 

 fa 2o2 



