Habenaria.] OXLVIII. oROHiDEX. (J.D. Hooker.) 135 
: : . duana, Lindl. in 
Jm H. trinervia, Wight Ic. t. 1701. Bonatea pun PHA 
Vall. Cat. 7063. B. benghalensis, Griff. in Cale, Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. 382 
B. herbacea, Wal. mss. 
Kasmurn, Falconer. ASSAM, Simmons. SILHET, Wallich. BENGAL, Griffith, 
ENASSERIM, Parish. The WESTERN Guats, from the Concan southv eg rarely 
Stem 1-2 ft. leafy. Leaves 2-5 in., very variable, acute or acuminate, large, 
arrowed into a petiole, from orbicular to lanceolate. Raceme 3-5 in, is very short ; 
nceolate, often almost foliaceous and exceeding the flowers ; pedicels bet ron the 
ers 3-3 in, broad, green ; segments of petals variable in length, » the side lobes; 
"tfments narrow or rounded ; midlobe of lip shorter or longer than th * anther-cells 
"Wr subclavate, sometimes inflated, with an erect ligule at the mou "m processes 
Parallel, tubes short upeurved ; glands of pollinia minute ; dn in., fusiform, 
ech rostellum erect, triangular. Capsule shortly pedicelled, à in., 
nbs thick, kb aan? 
Var. foliosa; smaller, 6-12 in. high, leaves shorter broader imbricating, Tace 
se-fid., bracts shorter, segments of lip filiform. H. foliosa, A. ps ui laciniata, 
Nat: Ser. 2 xv, 71. Wight Ic. t. 1700 ; Dalz. ¥ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 267. Wall. Cat. 
Dale, in Hook, Journ. Bot. ii. (1850) 261. Platanthera mere 0G tt Bombay 
1088 B. Orchig mysorensis, Herb. Heyne .——Nilghiri Mts., alt. 6-800 . : Dalzcll 
at Salsette, DalzelÌ.—I have not seen the Salsette plant (H. laciniata) o twisted 
Which he describes as having the posticous segment of the petals spirat y fo liosa 
e mid Segment of the lip broader than the others ; „Be Tefen ai 
8 plate, and adds that it is allied to H. lancifolia, A. ` 
oting Wight? 
8. N. travancorica, Hook. f. ; leaves scattered ovate-oblong amples 
bina’ Taceme lax-fld., lateral sepals ovate acute pubescent T ts subequal 
Die Segments narrow lower shortest, lip tripartite, segmen 
m, a 
pur Shorte 1 i At le t 922 
not r than the ovar y: H. Lindleyana, W g . . 
| of Steudel), 
TRAYANCORE ; on the Pulney Hills, Wight. 
slender, 12-18 CP Leaves 1-2 in. "zem 3-5 in. ; bracts lar long Mes 
than theas. T longer; flowers 3-4 in. diam.; dorsal sepal perius. distinguish 
this the *epals.—The pubescent sepals (not observed by Wight) and | a be a variety. 
The | forms of H, digitata, of which however it may prove ith of the spür 
Very tient and flowers are much smaller, and the ligule at the mou 
ian Hs Gibsoni, Hook. f. Ic. Plant. ined.; very stout, leafy, Nas 
fow KK 8, raceme few-fld., bracts equalling or exceeding 1, lip tripar- 
ge Di l in, iam., petals bipartite, segments narrow subequa» P Iur 
Irag ements linear-subulate subequal fleshy, mouth ot clava 
wit Out a li l 
igule. 
e Concay ;n z z ibs 
y 3 near Kyreswur and at Kandalla, Gibson. . bracts 
ng 8-12 in, Leaves 4. in., base sheathing. Raceme short, 6-8-fld.; b: 
: ; flowers 
White p a me tubranons, broadly lanceolate, the lower exceeding the flowen i fleshy, 
Pl anther 7T. digitata, but twice as large; upper segment of petals dmouth of the 
t; o, Drond, stigmatic processes adnate to the back of the broas tate of H. 
en, lum small, triangular, exposed.— Much like a cr length, and 
Very lar very robust, with much longer leaves, narrower for the 
OWers, and no ligule at the very broad mouth of the spur. 
ds, 
A z dolichostachy a, Thwaites Enum. 309; stem ea nd as the 
ndy ong-lanceolate amplexicaul, raceme lax-fld., bracts | ed loser seg. 
Rent tht Sepals ovate-lanceolate acute, petals bipa ile longest, 
Paras long late, lip tripartite, segments filiform the 
8 as the ovary slender. 
