Habenaria.) ` oxtvitr. omontpx zs. (J. D. Hooker.) 157 
D : i land 
minute, cells parallel, tubes 0; pollinia short, grains large, caudicle and g ` 
obscure ; stigmatic processes clavate, rostellum erect, truncate, toothed ^ plicate, con- 
cealing the glands of the pollinia.— Habit of H. viridiflora. In the : hasia T "n 
the midlobe of the lip is much longer than in the Peninsular. pave 1a looked 
culty in choosing a specific name, for Bentham, in adopting stenosige ge to from the 
the older published one of tenuis. That of peristyloides may be o jected o band 
plant being sectionally a Peristylus, though Wight did not recognize it as such, 
it is preoccupied by A. Richard for an Abyssinian species. 
80. H. cubitalis, Br. Prodr. 312; tall, slender, leaves scattered a sub- 
ical, linear oblong or lanceolate acute, spike long ER blon 
minute, bracts as long as the curved ovary or shorter, sep Se + the se ni 
concave keeled, petals larger ovate-oblong, lip not excee nd d obtuse 
Xd, side lobes Spreading and recurved, midlobe shorter Pl. tanthera 
‘pur straight as long as the sepals nearly cylindric. 310. Orchis 
cubitalis, Lind’. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 292; Thwaites Enum. 310. 
cubitalis, Linn. Fi Zeyl. 320. d 
The Krsra Mrs., TENAsSERIM, Parish, Ze, CEYLON ; Hermann, at Pasdoon 
Corle, Thwaites. : bscure. 
Stem with the slender spike 1-3 ft. Leaves 2-6 in., sessile, flat, DEN o ct, 
Spike 8-19 in. ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, lower 4 in.; ovary ih th Dd 
tip decurved ; sepals J; in., obtuse, l-nerved, nerve produced peneath, à short 
orsal longest; and broadest; petals obliquely oblong, obtuse; lip wi: i cells 
Concave claw, lateral lobes shorter than or equalling the sepals ; anther minute, cp 
Parallel, tubes 0, pollinia short granular, caudicles and glands obscure d E lands 
$ clavate ; rostellum erect, truncate, toothed, plicate, concealing the g two 
of the pollinia.— Near H. stenostachya, but flowers much smaller. There are two 
Orms in Ceylon, one with leaves scattered along the stem, and another also foun 
enasserim with radical leaves ; the latter is, — . 
‘ar, brevifolia ; leaves very short 1-14 in. radical linear-oblong. Cologne 
brevifolium, LindJ. Gen. § Sp. Orchid. 302 (excl. hab. Nepal).—Tavoy, allich. 
on, Walker & Garda. Wallich’s specimen in Herb. Linn. Soc. are not nomi We 
by him, bat are ticketed, « Tavoy, Dec, 16, 1827." The number 7041 M ich Ms 
«n put on the sheet by another hand, Wallich gave only to the Khasian p of > m- 
linifolia H. khasiana, p. 151). To var. brevifolia he gave the mss. name of co 
Melinifolia (not micrantha, as Lindley states in his Herbarium). 
, Th Leaves cluste 
WI Gardneri.) § 
| 81. H. tipulifera, Par. & Reichb. f. in Trans. Linn, Soc. xxx. 139; 
faves 4-6 inear-lanceolate acuminate, bracts very slender equalling ` 
slender Ovaries, lateral sepals linear obtuse, petals broader EM ong 
j$ membranous, lateral segments of lip many times longer than the 
“Pals capillary, mid one short subulate, spur clavate as long as the 
sepals, ? Peristylus gracilis, Blume Bijdr. 406. 
; at Moulmein, Parish. 
boy t., with appressed sheaths below the leaves, and 1-2 lanceolate ones 
® them, Leaves 5-8 by 3-1 in., clustered about the middle of the stem, m 
le. Spike 6-10 in. ; flowers erect, small, distant ; bracts t es 
ee M long, straight; sepals lin. long, l-nerved, dorsal ovate-ob ong nate 
cell E lateral erect ; lip divided close to the narrow concave claw ; an Wgl tie 
~ Parallel, tubes 0 pollinia clavate, caudicles very short, glands oblong; stigma 
ining t ET licate, concealing the 
a ` margining the claw of the lip; rostellum broad, p ; CC ht. erect. — 
Very D the anther-cells and glands. Capsule} in., very slender, trag MR 
dech TH. aristata, differing in the long narrow leaves and much longer very 
ovary, 
red round the middle of the stem (sometimes scattered 
lender species; spike long, law-fld. 
