BOTANICAL MUSEUM LEAFLETS 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
CamsripGr, Massacuusetts, Ocroser 10, 1934 Voi. 3, No. 2 
A CONTRIBUTION TO OUR KNOWLEDGE 
OF THE ORCHIDS OF SPANISH HONDURAS 
PART II 
BY 
Oakes AMES 
I. HABENARIEAE. 
THE HABENARIEAE and associated genera are charac- 
terized by a persistent anther adnate to the column by a 
broad base and differ from all other orchids in having the 
‘audiculae produced from the base of the pollinia. They 
belong to the Basitonae-Ophrydinae of Pfitzer’s system 
of classification. 
The Basitonae-Ophrydinae with few exceptions A fri- 
can and Eurasian in distribution comprise about fifty 
genera. 
In Central America the Habenarieae, as limited by 
Bentham and Hooker, are represented by a single genus 
that includes approximately twenty-six species. Ten of 
these species are natives of Honduras. It is highly proba- 
ble that additions will be made as exploration continues, 
because in Guatemala, a region with a flora comparable 
to that of Honduras, about sixteen species of Habenaria 
have been found. 
The Habenarieae are essentially an Old Wor!d group 
whether taken in a conservative sense to include the gene- 
ra admitted by Bentham and Hooker (Genera Planta- 
rum 8 (1888)), or ina more liberal sense to include the 
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