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Halenaria. CXLVIII. ORCHIDEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 147 
Platanthera acuifera, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7045. P. rostrata, Lindl. in 
Wall. Cat, 7051 B. 
Kuasta Bras, alt. 4-5000 ft., common. Naga Hitts, Prain,  TAvov, 
Wallich —DtsTRIB. China. : 
Stem 10-18 in., lexuous. Leaves 3 A by }—} in., erect, base sheathing, upper and 
linear lanceolate ciliolate bracts very finely acuminate ; ovary 1-2 in., Iv 5. lateral 5- 
for half its length; flowers golden, 2 in. diam.; dorsal sepal strong Tih, clavate ; 
nerved ; petals L-nerved ; margins of midlobe of lip revolute, spur s ZS en glands 
anther large, apiculate, tubes long erect, caudicles of pollinia long very tin the leaves 
minute ; stigmatic processes clavate, incurved.— Lindley errs in describing 
as all radical, and in giving Ceylon as a habitat. 
48, H. chlorina, Reich. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 140; habit 
and character of H. acuifera, but rather stouter, leaves broader, ave d 
nger, sepals and petals 3-nerved, side lobes of lip large and spur inc 
low the middle with a large clavate ellipsoid tip. 
CUL ASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Lobb, Parish. Suan STATES, alt. 4400 ft., 
D 
> - then 
Lewes 2 in. broad. Spike 2-3 in. long; flowers at first yellow green, 
Spotted EN at last brown. Probably a form of H. acuifera, but besides the 
ve difference the flowers are smaller. 
** Tubes of anther-cells short. 
Í Stem leafy upwards. 
§ Bracts lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers not or hardly secund. 
4. H. eni tica ight Ic. t. 1700; leaves all linear-oblong or 
lanceolate acuminate nant margined, spike many-fid., bracts kai 
or equalling the ovaries, dorsal sepal shorter than the broadly sepals 
obtuse lateral, petals triangular-ovate ciliolate, lip as long as llin Phe 
h yond the middle lobes oblong obtuse, spur stout equalling 
“ortly beaked incurved ovary. 
TRAVANCORE ; on the Mts., Wight. i 
Stem 12-18 in., rather To, Leaves 2-3 by 4—4 in., upper sho rt sheathing, 
.T Incurved. Spike 9.4 in., cylindric; bracts finely Ponie 3-nerved 
Zeit, about } in, diam. ; perianth thick subpuberulous ; TA . lobes 
bn Ciliolate almost orbicular, lateral ovate-oblong ; petals 4 shorter, llini y "longer 
than GV. anther broad, cells distant divaricate, tubes short; pollini: 
eir sto 
; rostellum 
broa ut caudicles, glands small ; stigmatic processes large, clavate ; roste 
d, triangular, 
E: füstfera, Fook, f; leaves oblong acute narrowly at, 
Te many-fld., bracts longer than the ovary, dorsal sepal subor icular 
GI as long as but broader than the oblong obtuse lateral, peta s to the 
an the Sepals triangular-ovate, lip larger than the sepals 3-par i te spur 
chos? Segments filiform longer than the linear mid MUS , 
Ter than t e curved ovary fusiform with a short narrow neck. 
ie SCORE ; , i in Herb. Calcutt.). 
Habit of Hone the Annamallay Hills, Beddome (in 
larger 
iptica, but very different in the shorter not BM broad, 
Celle divas’, "nd petals, 3-partite lip, and spur; flowers yellow; ll; stigmatic 
Peg, ate, tubes short ; pollinia clavate, caudicles short, glands "o seen only one 
"men. "ate, incurved, adnate to the mouth of the spur.—1 have 
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