134 CXLVII. ORCHIDER. (J. D. Hooker.) LHabenaria. 
** Petals 2-partite. 
+ Stem leafy upwards. Racemes many-fld. 
\ Sepals with filiform tips. 
4. H. stenopetala, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 319 (not 324); tall, 
leaves oblong or ovate-lanceolate base narrowed or broad and amplexicaul, 
raceme dense-fld., bracts as long as the ovaries, segments of petals slender 
equal or the lower shorter, segments of tripartite lip filiform, spur long 
slender equalling the ovary. 
NonTH West INDIA; road to Kashmir, Royle. Srxxim HIMALAYA, alt. 3-6000 
ft., J. D. H. &c. UPPER Assam; the Naga hills, Grifith, Prain. LowEk BENGAL; 
at Mymensing, Clarke. Orissa; at Singboom, Clarke. The Concan ; Stocks, Ar, 
Stem 1-2 ft., stout. Leaves, 6-8 in., base contracted into a broad petiole or sessile. 
Raceme short, 4—6 in. ; bracts membranous; flowers very variable in size, greenish ; 
sepals oblong-lanceolate, }-} in. long, membranous, 3-nerved, filiform tips as long 
as the blade or shorter; lower segment of the petals sometimes obsolete ; segments of 
lip very variable, the lateral sometimes as long or longer than the middle one, at 
others they are much shorter and subulate; spur equalling the ovary ; anther-cells 
narrow, parallel, tubes nearly as long as the cells; caudicles of pollinia slender, 
glands small; stigmatic processes elongate, clavate; rostellum large, triangular, 
erect. Capsule 4-2 in., linear-oblong.—A very variable plant; the flowers of the 
Orissa and Bengal specimens, are remarkably small ; of some Sikkim ones also very 
small. 
5. H. macrostachya, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 307 ; leaves large 
crowded above the middle of the robust stem, raceme lax-fld., bracts equal- 
ling the ovary, segments of petals subequal filiform, segments of 3-partite 
lip subequal filiform, spur shorter than the ovary. Thwaites Enum. 309. 
TRAVANCORE ; on the Anamallay hills, Beddome (in Herb. Caleutt.). CEYLON, 
Macrae, alt. 4000 ft., Thwaites. 
Stem 2 ft. Leaves 5-7 in., obovate or oblanceolate, acute, broadly petioled. 
Raceme 6-8 in. ; bracts and ovary very narrow ; sepals $ in. long; petals and lip 
spotted with red; lip longer than the sepals, spur very slender, thickened down- 
wards ; anther-tubes as long as the parallel cells, suberect, pollinia pyriform, glands 
minute; stigmatic processes long, slender, adnate to the mouth of the lip; ros- 
tellum small.— The spur is stoutest in the Travancore specimen. 
6. H. andamanica, Hook. f. Ic. Plant. ined.; leaves crowded 
towards the middle of the stout stem, raceme lax-fld., bracts rather shorter 
than the ovary, upper segment of petals very slender, lower broader divide 
above the middle into 3 filiform laciniz, side lobes of lip palmately multifid, 
midlobe linear 2-fid, spur shorter than the ovary. 
ANDAMAN ISLANDS; Parish, . 
Stem 12-18 in. Leaves 3-4 in., ovate-lanceolate, acute. Raceme 6-8 m5 
bracts lanceolate; ovary lj in., very slender; sepals 4 in. long; lacinia of mid- 
lobe of lip filiform; anther-cells parallel, tubes rather shorter than the cells ; glands 
of pollinia minute ; stigmatic processes subcylindric, elongate; rostellum erect. 
SS Sepals without filiform tips. 
7. H. digitata, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 307; leaves ovate oF 
ovate-oblong, raceme laxly many-fld., lateral sepals ovate acute, dorsal 
suborbicular, petals bipartite, segments subequal or the upper broader, lip 
tripartite segments linear, spur equalling the ovary. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 
