Habenaria?^ Orcllidecr. 227 



Lower montane zone at about 4000 ft. ; very rare. Maturata Fort 

 (Thwaites); Hakgala (Nockj. Fl. Dec, Jan.; yellowish-green, the lip 

 pale yellowish-brown. 



Also in Travancore. 



2. H. acuminata, Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. gi (1885). 

 Ate acuminata., Thw. Enum. 309. C. P. 514. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 133. 



Stem 1-2 ft., leafy, leafing above the middle, sheathed 

 below it; tubers oblong; 1. 2-4 in., erect, lanceolate, and as 

 the large cymbiform bracts setaceously acuminate, indistinctly 

 5-7-veined, bases sheathing; raceme elongate, lax-fld. ; bracts 

 erect, cymbiform, sheathing the fl., green ; fl. subsecund, \ in. 

 broad, glabrous; sep. spreading, dorsal hemispheric, lateral 

 broadly ovate, obtuse, or suborbicular; pet. 2-lobed to the 

 middle, lobes variable in length and breadth, incurved, upper 

 slender, longer than the dorsal sep., and about twice as long 

 as the subulate lower; lip as long as the sep., broadly 3-lobed, 

 lobes variable in length, fleshy, obtuse, spur longer than the 

 ov., narrowly clavate, mouth with a ligula; anth. -cells spread- 

 ing below, tubes recurved, pollinia clavate, as long as their 

 caudicles, glands minute; staminodes short, fleshy; rostellum 

 small, triangular ; stigmatic processes large, globose. 



Among grass on patanas, lower montane zone 3-5000 ft. ; rather 

 common. Dimbula; Ramboda ; Hantane ; Galagama; top of Doluwa 

 Kande. Fl. Oct.-Dec; sep. green, pet. yellow-green or purple, lip purple. 



Endemic. 



3. K. macrostachya, Lindl. Ge7i. and Sp. Orch. 307 (1835). 

 Thw. Enum. 309. C. P. 3197. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 134. 



Stem ii-3 ft, robust, leafy about the middle, closely 

 sheathed below it ; 1. 5-7 by 2-3 in., oval obovate or oblanceo- 

 late, acute, many-veined, and with cross venules, narrowed 

 into a broad petiole 1-3 in. long; raceme 6-10 in., laxly many- 

 fld., rhachis stout, channelled ; bracts narrowly lanceolate, 

 as long as tJie narrow decurved ov., i-i^ in. long; sep. f in. 

 long, ovate-lanceolate, finely acuminate, dorsal erect, lateral 

 deflexed under the lip; pet. nearly as long as the sep., bipartite, 

 erect, segm. subequal, or the lower shorter, filiform, sinus 

 acute; lip longer than the sep., i in. long, 3-partite, segm. 

 subequal, filiform, lateral spreading with recurved tips, terminal 

 straight, spur shorter than the ov., very slender, thickened 

 downwards, mouth with a ligula ; anth. -tubes as long as the 

 parallel cells, suberect, pollinia pyriform, glands minute; 

 rostellum small; stigmatic processes long, slender, adnate to 

 the mouth of the spur. 



