FLORA OF EASTERN TROPICAL AFRICA. 395 
Hab. Higher slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro above Morang to 
10,000 ft.: W. E. Taylor, 1886. 
An erect plant 15 inches high, with a leafy stem ; leaves below 
the middie narrow from a sheathing base, those above the middle 
subbracteiform amplexicaul, with a sharply pointed apex, the 
lowest 20 lines, the next higher 16, the upper ones becoming 
like the bracts and ciliolate at the margin. The dense spike is 
3 inches long; the broad acuminate bracts (the lower 10-11 lines 
long) are sparsely ciliolate at the margin. The flowers are rather 
long-stalked, the ovary (44 lines) with the pedicel measuring 
linch in length. The 5-nerved oval dorsal sepal has a large 
thickened spathulate apex, and measures 3 lines by 1}; the 
larger very oblique lateral sepals are 4x2? lines. The small 
very narrow posterior segments of the petals are scarcely 3} lines 
long, with a breadth of } line, the anterior are 6 lines by * line, 
both are minutely hispid. The three lip-segments are very 
similar to each other; but the median is uniformly linear, blunt, 
and 7 lines long, while the more pointed lateral ones are 6 lines ; 
their breadth is less than 4 line. The spur is # inch long and 
slightly dilated below the middle, where there is a slight twist. 
The generally straight horizontally protruding stigmatic pro- 
cesses are 2} lines long. The surface of the more or less spindle- 
shaped ovary is covered with small semiglobose warts which are 
larger on the angles. 
Is very near the Abyssinian Habenaria Schimperiana, Reichb. f., 
but has not the characteristic much twisted spur, while the 
flower-spike is short and dense, and the bracts larger, broader, 
and ciliolate. 
Hapenarta (§ MULTIPARTITE) SPLENDENS, sp. nov. Planta 
glabra, egregia; caule crasso omnino folioso ; foliis basi vaginan- 
tibus, lamina ovata subpatente et apice acuta; spica vix densa, 
bracteis imis magnis ovatis foliaceis ovarium superantibus, ceteris 
similibus (vel magis ovalibus), acutiusculis et brevioribus, ovarium 
vix vel haud equantibus; sepalo dorsali ovato minute apiculato 
cum petalis lineari-falcatis acutis adherentibus galeam formante, 
sepalis lateralibus patentibus oblique ovatis, apice acuto plicato ; 
labello superne minute hispidulo a basi lineari trifurcato, 
segmento medio longiore filiformi, lateralibus latioribus curvatis 
margine exteriore laciniatis, laciniis simplicibus ; caleari recurvato 
crasso ovarium superante; processibus stigmaticis longis supra 
LINN. JOURN.—BUTANY, VOL. XXX, 2k 
