Ucanpva: Ruwenzori, Bajuku Valley, 3240 m., in Heather forest 
below Ist. valley step, Aug. 1933, Eggeling 1286 (Typ); Kigezi, Mt. 
Mgahinga, 3300 m., occasional in grassland, Aug. 1938, Thomas 2469 ; 
Mt. Elgon, 3000 m., local in Bamboo zone, Jan. 1918, Dummer 3507 ; 
same locality, 2700-3150 m., 1929, Hancock & Soundy 104a; Mt. 
Elgon, Bulambuli, 2700 m., in mud by stream, local, Sept. 1932, 
Thomas 572; same locality, 2850 m., among short grass beside small 
stream, May 1935, Synge 1870. 
Kenya Cotony: Mt. Elgon, south side, 3240 m., on river bank in 
wooded and grassy country, Jan. 1937, Tweedie 360; same locality 
3360 m., in grass along stream, Feb. 1935, Taylor 3623; Aberdare 
Mts., Naivasha-Nyeri track, 3240 m., in Hagenia-Hypericum forest, 
Oct. 1934, Taylor 1390; Mt. Kenya, north-west slopes, 3150 m., 
beside small stream in shade, mostly in fruit, April 1935, Synge 1759. 
This species, which is evidently common at high alti- 
tudes on many of the mountains of East Africa, is a close 
relative of H. tenuispica Rendle with which it agrees in 
habit and in the general structure of the flower. Apart 
from the differences mentioned above in the diagnosis 
HI, Heggelingi has, on the average, a greater proportion 
of the lip undivided than is the case in its ally. 
Habenaria filicornis (Jhonn.) Lindley Gen. & Sp. 
Orchid. (1835) 318. 
Habenaria Spiranthes Reichenbach filius in Flora 48 
(1865) 178. 
Hatbenaria deflewa Hochstetter ex Kraenzlin in Engler 
Bot. Jahrb. 16 (1898) 146. 
Habenaria Erythraeae Rolfe in Dyer FI. Trop. Afr. 
7 (1898) 215. 
An examination of all these ‘‘species’’ reveals no es- 
sential differences between them and they must conse- 
quently be looked upon as conspecific. The species is 
distributed from Nigeria eastwards to Eritrea and south- 
wards to Angola and Southern Rhodesia. 
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Habenaria chlorotica Reichenbach filius in Flora 
48 (1865) 178. 
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