Tas. 7571. 
HABENARIA rnopocuetta. 
Native of Southern China, é 
Nat. Ord. OrncuiprEx.—Tribe OrpHRyDEA. 
Genus Hasenaria, Willd.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii, p. 624.) 
Hapenaria (Platyglossa) rhodocheila; tuberibus carnosis, caule folioso, 
foliis lineari-oblongis acuminatis undulatis, basi amplexi-caulibus, racemo 
laxo multi-floro, bracteis lanceolatis infimis ovario gracili curvo sequi- 
longis, sepalis viridibus, dorsali hemispherico, lateralibus deflexis oblongis 
obtusis apicibus tortis, petalis lineari-spathulatis viridibus erectis, labello 
sepalis 2-3-plo longiore unguiculato rubro-aurantiaco lobis lateralibus 
oblongis obtusis patenti-decurvis, intermedio minore breviter unguiculato 
bipartito segmentis dimidiato-ovatis obtusis, caleare valido labello duplo 
longiore incurvo flavido infra medium subinflato apice acuto, ore lamella 
ungue labelli orta clauso, anther tnbulis suberectis, rostello brevi 
triangulari, stigmatis processubus crassis decurvis. 
H. rhodocheila, Hance in Aun, Se. Nat. ser. v. vol. v. (1866) p. 243, 
Habenaria rhodocheila was made known by the late 
Dr. Hance, F.L.S., when resident at Whampoa, and de- 
scribed by him from specimens collected by Dr. Sampson 
-in 1864 on rocks near the Buddhist monastery of Fi-loi- 
tsz, on the banks of the North River, above Canton. It 
belongs to a section of the genus of which there are 
many Asiatic species, characterized by the deflexed lateral 
sepals, erect petals forming a hood with the dorsal sepal, 
the long, tubular anther-cells and prominent stigmatic 
processes. Dr. Hance regarded it as most closely allied 
to H. crinifera, Lind]. (Wight Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 926), but 
that species differs much in habit, being scapigerous, with 
the leaves nearly all radical, and has crenate and caudate 
lobes of the lip. It is much more nearly and indeed very 
closely allied to H. militaris, Reichb. f., of Cambogia. 
Tubers of H. rhodocheila were received at the Royal 
Gardens, Kew, from Mr. Chas. Ford, Superintendent of 
the Gardens, &c., of Hong Kong, in January, 1895, 
which flowered in a warm house in June, 1897. The 
species varies greatly in the colour of the lip; Hance 
describes it as deep rose-colrd., in the Kew plants it 
varied from orange-red to madder yellow. 
Decremser Ist, 1897, 
