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HIARENARIA LoNGIcaupa. Lone-TaiLep 
HIABENARIA. ’ 
Class and Order. 
GynanpriA MonanpRIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cor. ringens. Labellum basi subtus calcaratum. Glan- 
dule pollinis nude distinct (loculis pedicellorum adnatis 
v. solutis distinctis). Br. 
Specific Character. 
Hasenarra longicauda ; labello profundo - trifido, laciniis 
~ setaceis, lateralibus petalorum interiorum bipartitorum 
longis incurvis, intermedio latiore breviore, cornu fili- 
formi pedicellisque longissimis. 
Descr. Root? Stem a foot and a half to two and even 
three feet high, every where clothed with the Jong sheath- 
ing bases of the leaves. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, 
striated, four to five inches long, gradually smaller upward, 
and passing into the bractee. Bractee \anceolate, much 
shorter than the germens. Flowers in a large, terminal, 
lax, raceme. Flowers large, greenish white. Three outer 
petals, or segments of the perianth, three quarters of an 
inch long, ovate, acuminate, the two lateral ones reflexed, 
nerveless, the upper one erect, concave, three-nerved, cover- 
-ing the anther. Two inner ones bipartite, their segments 
setaceous, curved, long, the upper one, however, the shortest, 
and concealed within the upper and outermost petal. Lip 
deeply trifid, that is cut below the middle into three seta- 
ceous segments, of which, the two lateral ones are much the 
longest, not spreading, but nearly parallel with the ages 
