Habettaria.l OrcJlideCB. 2 20) 



Dry region ; rather rare. Anuradhapura ; Bintenne ; Bibile ; Nilgala. 

 Fl. Nov.-Jan.; sep. and pet. greenish, lip yellow. 

 Endemic. 



6. H. plantag-inea, Liridl. Gen. Mid Sp. Orch. 323 (1835). 

 Thw. Enum. 310. C. P. 2374. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 141. Wight, Ic. t. 1710. 



Scapigerous ; stem very short; tubers oblong; 1. 3-6 in., 

 narrowly oval or oblong, acute, spreading, membranous, 

 narrowed at the base into a short sheath, veins many, slender ; 

 scape 8-12 in., slender, with many rather distant, open, 

 lanceolate, acuminate sheaths \-\ in. long; spike 4-6 in., 

 lax-fld. ; bracts subulate-lanceolate, much shorter than theov.; 

 ov. |-i in. long, slender, beaked; fl. subsecund, about § in. 

 broad, across the spreading sep. ; sep. \ in. long, subequal, 

 3-veined, acute, dorsal ovate-oblong, lateral falcately oblong; 

 pet. linear-lanceolate; lip more than twice as long as the sep., 

 flabelliform from a narrow claw, puberulous, |-f in. broad, 

 3-lobed ; lobes subacute, entire or toothed, lateral i-ovate, 

 mid lobe as long, narrowly linear, spur i-i| in., very 

 slender, pendulous; anth. rather broad, cells divergent below; 

 tubes rather short, upcurved, meeting at their tips, poUinia 

 pyriform, as long as their broad caudicles, which are inserted 

 upon an at first apparently simple, entire, lanceolate, concave 

 gland, which divides longitudinally ; staminodes on the sides 

 of the anth., pulvinate; rostellum broad, triangular; stigmatic 

 processes prominent, clavate; fr. f in. long, turgidly fusiform, 

 curved, beak short, slender. 



Dry region ; common. Fl. April ; pure white. 



Also in Peninsular India. 



A pretty plant, often called ' Pigeon-orchid ' by the English. The 

 late cohesion of the glands of the pollinia is unique in the genus, so far 

 as is recorded. — J. D. H. 



\H. Lindleyana, Steud. {H. latifolia, Lindl.), a very little-known plant, 

 is given from 'Ceylon, Macrae,' by Lindl. (Gen. and Sp. Orch. 321). No 

 one else has found it, and the locality is probably an error (see Fl. B. Ind. 

 vi. 140.)] 



7. K. crinifera, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 323 (1835). 

 Thw. Enum. 310. C. P. 207. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 142. Wight, Ic. t. 926. 



Scapigerous, stem 2-6 in., naked and rooting below; tuber 

 large, ovoid ; 1. 3-6 in., oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, spreading, 

 sheathing broadly below, veins many; scape 8-12 in., slender, 

 with many rather large lanceolate sheaths 1-I5 in. long, the 

 lower foliaceous; raceme short, few-fld.; bracts f in., ovate- 

 lanceolate, with capillary tips, half as long as the slender ov., 

 which terminates in a decurved slender beak ; fl. \ in. across 



