Tas. 7798. 
HABENARIA LuGARDI. 
Native of Bechuanaland, 
Nat. Ord. OncHIDEZ.—Tribe OPpHRYDER. 
Genus Hasenania, Willd.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 624.) 
Hasenanrta (Ate) Lugardii; foliis 2 radicalibus sub-oppositis terre appressis 
sessilibus orbicularibus 6-8 poll. diam. carnosis fragilibus breviter acutatis 
multinerviis, scapo robusto vaginis paucis lanceolatis pollicaribus 
instructo, racemo 1-2 ped. longo 4-10 poll. diam. multi-laxifloro, bracteis 
3-11 poll. longis lanceolatis, pedicellis 1}-2 poll. longis arcuatis, floribus 
albis, sepalo dorsali } poll. longo erecto ovato acuto concavo, lateralibus 
erecto-patentibus dorsali paullo longioribus ovato-lanceolatis acutis, 
petalis bipartitis segmento postico oblongo falcato erecto sepalo dorsali 
cohwrente, antico fere filiformi pendulo pollicari, labello ad basin 3- 
partito segmentis filiformibus 1% poll. longis pendulis intermedio breviore, 
caleare 5-6 poll. longo, stigmatis processubus elongatis apicibus spathu- 
latis porrectis viridibus, staminodiis minutis pyriformibus granulatis 
aureis, rostello prominulo acuto, antherarum tubulis brevibus, polliniis 
anguste oblongis caudiculis paullo brevioribus, glandula parva orbicu- 
lari. 
H. Lugardii, Rolfe in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afric. vol. vii. p. 228. W. Wats. in 
Gard. Chron. 1900, vol. ii. p. 322. 
In habit and in the orbicular leaves appressed to the 
earth, this stately Habenaria resembles two Indian 
species, H. platyphylla, Spreng., and H. plantaginea, Lindl., 
from both of which it differs in the form of the petals, which 
are cleft to the base into very narrow segments, a character 
which refers it to the genus Ate of Lindley (reduced by all 
recent authors to Habenaria). It was discovered by Major 
Lugard, with Crinum rhodanthum_ (tab. 7777) and other 
bulbous plants in Botletle Valley, Ngamiland. Tubers of 
it were presented by that distinguished traveller to the 
Royal Gardens, Kew, in February, 1899, one of which 
flowered in the tropical Orchid House in October of the 
following year, and is here figured. 
Descr.—Leaves two, radical, sessile, appressed to the 
ground, orbicular, four to six inches in diameter, fleshy, 
fragile, bright green, base amplexicaul, very many-nerved. 
Scape stout, with a few lanceolate acuminate sheaths. 
Raceme six to twelve inches long, very many-flowered, six 
inches in diameter ; rhachis stout, acutely angled; bracts 
OctoBerR Ist, 1901. 
