2 2 8 Orchidece. [Habcnaria. 



Low country up to 3000 ft. in both regions; rather common. Han- 

 tane ; Peradeniya; Dolosbagie; near Kegalla; E. Matale; Bintenne; 

 Bibile. Fl. Oct.-Jan.; sep. whitish-green, pet. and lip purple-brown. 



Also in Travancore. 



4. K. dolichostachya, Thw. Enuin. 309 (1861). 

 C. P. 3199. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 135. 



Stem 2-3 ft, slender, leafless below; tuber oblong and 

 root-fibres clothed with matted root-hairs; 1. rather distant, 

 2-3 in. long, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, many veined, base 

 amplexicaul; raceme 8-12 in., laxly many-fld., rhachis 

 stout, channelled; bracts as long as the fl., ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate; fl. subsessile, about \ in. broad, ov. \ in., slender, 

 decurved, almost beaked, sep. all spreading, 3-vcined, dorsal 

 orbicular-ovate, concave, mucronate, lateral \ in., ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute; pet. erect, bipartite, segm. filiform or 

 subulate, lower shorter, sinus rounded; lip \ in., longer than 

 the Sep., tripartite, segm. filiform, \ in., middle longest, lateral 

 spreading, spur slender, nearly as long as the ov., mouth with 

 a short ligula; anth. broad, cells parallel, tubes long, upcurved, 

 pollinia clavate, caudicles slender, glands small; rostellum 

 short, triangular; stigmatic processes clavate, curved round 

 the mouth of the spur. 



Montane zone 3-6000 ft.; rare. Ramboda; Bogawantalawa; Hakgala. 

 Y\. Oct.-Dec; green. 

 Endemic. 



5. K. dichopetala, Tlnu. Emini. 309 (1S61). 



C. P. 3564. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 136. 



Stem 1-2 ft., robust, leafy about the middle ; tubers 

 globose, as large as a hazel nut, and root fibres matted with 

 root-hairs; 1. 2-3 in, long, very shortly pctiolcd, ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute, 7-9-veined, dark green ; raceme many- 

 and lax-fld.; bracts A-S in., ovate-lanceolate, acuminate; fl. 

 about J, in. across the sep.> ov. with pedicel :-i in., sep. spread- 

 ing, 3-veined, dorsal erect, broadly ovate, hooded, lateral ovate, 

 acute; pet. bipartite, segm. subequal, as long as the sep., 

 divaricate, narrowly linear or subulate, sinus rounded, tips 

 sometimes revolute; lip tripartite to the base, i in. long, 

 segm. equal or median longest, filiform, or flattened and 

 falcate, straight, or tips of lateral revolute, spur rj in., as long 

 as the ov., slender, pendulous, incurved, clavate towards the 

 subacute tip, mouth minute, anth. -cells distant, tubes rather 

 short, ascending, pollinia clavate, glands small ; staminodes 

 pulvinate; rostellum short; stigmatic processes large, clavate, 

 trlandular. 



