Tas. 5196. 
HABENARIA SaLaccensIis. 
Salakian Habenaria. 
Nat. Ord. OrcurpE#.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
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Gen. Char. (§ Ophrydex). Perigonii galeati foliola subequilonga, exteriora 
cum interioribus multo angustioribus integris bi-trifidisve conniventia. La- 
belliem elongatum, pendulum, integrum v. bi-trifidum, elongato-calcaratum. An- 
thera erecta, loculis solutis, basi divergentibus, canalibus stigmaticis adherenti- 
bus, rostello plano, anthere adnato, processubus duobus stigmaticis, variis seepius 
ori stigmatis adnatis. Polliniarum glandule nudee.—Herbe habitu Orchidis, 
majuscule, inter tropicos totius orbis obvie ; im America, ubi etiam in extratropicis 
utriusque hemispherii occurrunt, frequentiores; in Asia temperata rare. Endl. 
Hasenarta (§ Erostres) Salaccensis, foliis lanceolatis acuminatis striatis, racemo 
laxo plurifloro, bracteis membranaceis lineari-subulatis ovario longissimo 
pedunculiformi brevioribus, labello tripartito, laciniis linearibus, basi biglan- 
duloso, calcare filiformi recurvo ovario multo breviore, sepalis ovato-lanceo- 
latis herbaceis. 
Hagpenarta Salaccensis. Bl. Bijdr. p. 403. Tabell. Orch. f. 18 (flower only). 
Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 308. 
A rare and apparently little-known species of Habenaria, 
found by Blume on Mount Salak, in Java, and lately sent to the 
Royal Gardens of Kew, in a living state, by M. Binnendyk, of 
the Botanic Garden of Buitenzorg, Java. It flowered with us, 
in the stove, in April, 1860. Dr. Lindley only knew it from 
Blume’s figure of the flower and the very brief specific character 
above referred to. 
Descr. The roof, in our living specimen, consists of a large 
(for the size of the plant), fusiform, fleshy ¢wJer, and three or four 
shorter yet thick fleshy fibres. Stem twelve to fourteen inches 
high, at the base partially clothed with two to three sheathing 
scales, leafy upwards ; lower leaves four to five inches long, lan- 
ceolate, acuminate, striated, the superior ones becoming gradually 
smaller, bracteiform. Raceme ovate, five to six inches long. Pe- 
dicels short, clothed with two or three narrow-lanceolate bracts; 
ovary ‘elongated and resembling the pedicel, but angled and 
aucust Ist, 1860. 
