Habenaria] ^ sie. orcuipen. (J. D. Hooker.) 149 
The SovrRERN Concan, Perrottet, Jacquemont, Dalzell, and Nizanigi Hrs 
ke. 
Very near H. Heyneana, and perhaps only a form of it, but more slender, leaves 
^ linear 2-23 in., bases narrowed, bracts narrower, flowers white, lip very 
different, spur more slender, anther apiculate, glands of the pollinia approximate and 
even cohering oblong with recurved sides, stigmatic processes longer, adnate to the 
claw of the lip.—Does not turn black in drying. 
ih Leaves more than three, clustered towards the middle or base of the 
stem, 
99. H. furcifera, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 319; leaves elliptic, 
spike long many-fld., bracts as long as the ovary, sepals subequal dorsal 
ovate-oblong obtuse, lateral faleately oblong-lanceolate subacute, petals as 
ong oblong retuse, lip longer than the sepals trifurcate, side segments 
orm longer than the linear mid segment, spur longer than the ovary 
very slender involute. H. hamigera, Grif. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. 
at 20. H. tenuicornis, Wall. mss. 
TROPICAL HrwALAYA; Garwhal, alt. 2-3000 ft., Royle, Edgeworth. BHOTAN, 
"g Zeng, Wallich. Orissa, Clarke. Kast BENGAL, Griffith. 
Stem 10-18 in., stout, with distant small sheaths above the leaves. Leaves 4-6 
y 1j-2 in., acute or acuminate, base contracted, not petioled. Spike 5-7 1D., 
PATTOW ; bracts ovate-lanceolate ; ovary 4 in., curved, hardly beaked; sepals j in. 
& 3-nerved, lateral reflexed; petals as long, membranous, 2-nerved ; anther 
ew small, tubes upcurved ; stigmatic processes short. Capsule } in., fusiform, 
argid, decurved, ribs thick, beak 3 as long as the body. 
56. 8. affinis, Wight Ic. t. 1707; leaves large elliptic-lanceolate 
waminate, Spike elongate cylindric, bracts equalling or exceeding the 
tare d beaked ovary, sepals subequal or dorsal longest ovate-oblong ob- 
i Petals as long linear- or oblong-lanceolate obtuse, lip longerthan the 
"Partite, side segments narrow longer than the linear obtuse mid 
ent, spur half as long as the ovary slender incurved. 
d) NTRAL INDIA; at Singboom, Clarke. The Concan and CANARA, Law, 
Caleut’ be. TRAVANCORE; on the Anamallay Hills, Beddome (in Herb. 
ee” stout, 1-2 ft.; clothed above the leaves with many erect lanceolate 
rachis stony 77 4-6 by 2-21 in., hardly petioled, not margined. Spike 4-10 in., 
8 stout ; bracts 3-2 in.; flowers green; ovary À in., beak short; sepals i in., 
> 2 
3 lip twice as ion th als; anther broad, cells parallel, tubes shortly 
D as the sepals; H 
Taree Siands of pollinia small ; stigmatic processes large, clavate,— The 
. e Specimen has broader segments of the lip than the northern ones. 
ei, ovalifolia, Wight Ic.t. 1706; subscapigerous, leaves elliptic- 
or half ac acute, Scape tall, raceme elongate slender lax-fld., bractă ad ovato 
obtuse kel as the ovary, dorsal sepal orbieular as long as the sepals 
-partite ral, petals as large as the lateral obtuse, lip as long as he Zeie 
Bebe mig ae lotes linear-oblong obtuse incurved shorter than t g ovat 
incurved lobe, Spur slender rather longer than the slender beake y 
Ma Hp thickened acute. e. 
Tall, PENINSULA ; on the Ghats, from the Concan to the Nilghiris. acu- 
inata 4 ft. Leaves 2-3, 6-8 by 2—4} in., sessile or subpetioled, acute or “ke 
10 in, and mae With a leafy sheath below and slender ones above the leaves n eres 
& s and der ; flowers distant, 1 in, diam, greenish; bracts lanceolate; nervo 
tubeg nd petals obscure 3 Spur straight, pendulous ; anther short, cells « ive rgi ne, 
tlavate “rt Upeurved, caudicles of pollinia short, glands small; stigmatic proces:t 
> TOstellum short, broad, 
