dorsale late ovatum, valde cucullatum. Sepala lateralia 
oblongo-lanceolata. Petala simplicia, anguste triangulari- 
lanceolata, leviter falcata. Labellum simplex, lineare vel 
lineari-lanceolatum, crassum. Ovarium exalatum. 
Plant terrestrial, up to about 9 dm. tall from adecum- 
bent base. Stem stout, leafy, at base concealed by tubu- 
lar leaf-bearing sheaths. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate to 
oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, amplexicaul, as- 
cending, up to about 18cm. long and 2.6 em. wide, the 
largest blade near the middle of the stem. Raceme dense- 
ly many-flowered, about 22.7 cm. long to the tip of the 
uppermost flower, about 3.5-5 em. wide in the dried 
specimen. Floral bracts ovate-lanceolate, the lowest (and 
largest) 3.9 em. long, acuminate, clasping. Flowers me- 
dium-sized, perianth ringent. Dorsal sepal broadly ovate, 
strongly cucullate, about 14 mm. long, 9-10.2 mm. wide 
when forcibly expanded, rounded or minutely retuse and 
apiculate at the tip, conspicuously 8- (or inconspicuously 
5-) nerved with the mid-nerve prominently carinate on 
the outer surface. Lateral sepals oblong-lanceolate, about 
14-16 mm. long, 5 mm. wide, obtuse and more or less 
apiculate with a concave tip, 4- to 5-nerved with the mid- 
nerve prominently carinate on the lower half of the outer 
surface. Petals narrowly triangular-lanceolate, slightly 
faleate, about 11 mm. long, 4 mm. wide near the base, 
acute, 3-nerved, thickened through the anterior longi- 
tudinal part, rounded at the anterior basal part. Lip sim- 
ple, linear or linear-lanceolate, very slightly dilated at 
base, about 15 mm. long, fleshy, obtuse. Spur slender- 
cylindric below, prominently clavate and laterally flat- 
tened above, about 18 mm. long. Anther canals slender, 
much surpassing the fleshy semiovoid stigmatic proces- 
ses. Ovary longitudinally ribbed but not winged. 
Habenaria ligulata suggests H.hevaptera Lindl., but 
differs in the densely flowered raceme, in the dissimilar 
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