Habenaria. | CXXXIII. ORCHIDEH (ROLFE). 235 
66. H. pantothrix, Kränzl. ex Engl. Hochgeb. Fl. Trop. Afr. 
181 (name only); Kränzl. in Engl. Jahrb. xvi. 89. Plant strong, 14 
ft. high, leafy near the base, with sheathing bracts above. Leaves 
3-4, oblong, acute, 34 in. long, 14 lin. broad, base amply sheathing ; 
Sheaths dense, ovate, acute, pellucid. Racemes dense, many-flowered. 
Bracts sparsely or densely pilose. Pedicels 7 lin. long. Flowers 
medium-sized, more or less densely pilose except the lip and spur. 
Dorsal sepal oblong, cucullate, carinate, small; lateral much larger 
than the dorsal, reflexed, cucullate, obovate, acute, 21 lin. long and 
broad. Petals bipartite; posterior lobe with a very broad rounded 
base, irregularly ovate, acute; anterior lobe nearly straight, reduced in 
front to a pair of minute, acute teeth, of which the upper is the 
larger. Lip clawed, linear, thick, acute; side lobes reduced to 
rectangular teeth; spur filiform, clavate, 6 lin. long. Stigmatic 
Processes straight, spathulate, obliquely truncate in front. Anther 
channels slightly shorter than the stigmas; apex attenuate. Stami- 
nodes rounded, tuberculate. Rostellum triangular, acute, a little 
longer than the ovary. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper, 1324, in part! 
67. H. Welwitschii, Reichb. f. in Flora, 1865, 179. Plant 14-24 
ft. high. Leaves about 3, subradical, linear, subobtuse, conduplicate to 
the apex, 24-7 in. long. Scapes 1-2} ft. high; sheaths about 5, de- 
creasing upwards into the bracts. Racemes lax, 12- to many-flowered, 
33-12 in. long. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 4-8 lin. long. 
Pedicels 8-9 lin. long. Dorsal sepal oblong, obtuse, 24 lin. long; lateral 
obliquely obovate-oblong, apiculate, 3 lin. long, about as broad. Petals 
bipartite ; posterior lobe linear-filiform, 3 lin. long; anterior lobe 
obovate-oblong, subobtuse, 21 lin. long. Lip tripartite; side lobes 
oblong, subobtuse, 21 lin. long; front lobe linear, filiform, 54 lin. long ; 
Spur 65 lin. long, filiform below, clavate-inflated at the apex. Stigmatic 
processes subclavate-linear, straight, 1} lin. long. Anther channels 
2 lin. long, curved at the apex. Rostellum triangular, subulate, 1 lin. 
long.— Krinzl. in Engl. Jahrb. xvi. 68. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; between Lopollo and Humpata, in pastures 
near rivers, rather rare, Welwitsch, 721! 
68. H. anaphysema," Beicht, f. in Flora, 1867, 101, Tuber 
Spherical-ovoid, villous, 5-7 lin. long. Stem slender, 10-12 in. long. 
Leaves 4, linear, acuminate, rosulate, 4 in. long, 14 lin. broad; upper 
distant, sheath-like. Racemes 2 in. long, about 8-flowered. Bracts 
Cuneate-oblong, acuminate, shorter than the pedicels, 2-3 lin. long. 
orsal sepal oblong; lateral oblong-ovate, very oblique, laterally 
apiculate. Petals bipartite; posterior lobe linear, short, subulate, 
minutely papillose; anterior lobe longer and broader than the pos- 
terior, subfaleate, smooth. Lip trilobed ; lobes linear, acuminate; side 
lobes shorter than the front; spur cylindrical, inflated and uncinate 
