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[TAB. LV.] 



HABENARIA CORDATA 



Hahenaria. cordata ; foliis binis cordatis nervosis reticulatim 

 venosis semiamplexicaulibus, spica terrain ali, petalis con- 

 niventibus, labello trifido laciniis lineari-lanceolatis, cornu 

 brevissitnOj tubere solitario. (Tab. LV.) 



Habenaria cordata. Br. — Spreng. Syst Veget. v. 3. P' 691. 

 Orchis cordata. Willd. Sp. PI. v, 4. p. 28. 



Satyrium diphyllum. " Link in Schrad. Diar, Bot. 1799. p' 

 323." 



Hab. Muris apud Vicum " Arco de Santo Gorge," et in 

 rupibus apud « Entraza, " in era septentrionali Insulse 

 Madeirae. Bev. R. T. Lowe. 



Badix e tubere solitario ovali, fibrisque paucis, simpHcibus, 

 flexuosis, subtomentosis. Caulis basi decumbens, dein 

 ' ererctus, spithamseus, succulentus, dipliyllus. Folia basi 

 . semiamplexicaulia, tenuia, raembranacea, siccitate pellu- 

 cida, pulcherrime reticulata, cordata; inferius triple ma- 

 jus, late orbiculari-cordatum, patens, 3-4 uncias longuin, 

 nervis 3 primariis, 2-que secundariis parallelis : superius 

 ovato - cordatum, subacuminatum, costatum, nervisque 

 subsex notatum. Flores in spicam subdensam, termmaleffl 

 congest!. Bractea germinis longitudine, lineari-lanceolata. 

 Petala vel perianthii foliola 5, erecta, subconniventia, 

 elliptico-lanceolata, uniformia; lahellum ereclo-patens, 

 obovato-oblongum, basi in cornu brevissimo producturOj 

 ad medium usque trifidum, laciniis lineari-lanceolatis, 



! 



obtusis. 



Anthera 



locularis, loculis basi paululum divaricatis. GlanduU 



poll 



Hi the 



Habenaria 



has 



Journal, and as a 



native of Portugal. Two years ago, I had the satisfaction o 

 receiving well-dried specimens of this species, gathered in tbe 



