230 OrchideCB. \_Habenaria. 



the spreading 3-veined sep., dorsal sep. hemispheric, lateral 

 broadly ovate-oblong, obtuse; pet. erect, linear; lip three 

 times as long as the sep. or longer, clawed, 3-lobed, side lobes 

 cuneiform, outer margin toothed, and with a slender tail as 

 long as itself produced from the inner margin, mid lobe clawed, 

 cleft into two lanceolate long-tailed segments as long as the 

 side lobes, spur 1 ^- in., as long as the ov., very slender, strongly 

 incurved, mouth with a long ligule; anth. -cells parallel, tubes 

 long, straight, pollinia oblong, much shorter than the slender 

 caudicles, which become compressed and winged on one side, 

 ending in an obliquely truncate acute tip, glands very small ; 

 rostellum short, obtuse; stigmatic processes clavate, adnate to 

 the mouth of the spur; fr. i-i^ in., fusiform, beak very 

 slender. 



Moist region to 3000 ft.; rather rare. Hantane; Galagama. Fl. Feb.; 

 Sep. greeni-.h, pet. and lip white. 



Also in S. India. 



8. K. pterocarpa, Tliw. Enum. 309 (1S61). 

 C. P. 3201. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 145. 



Stem 6-18 in., stout, leafy throughout; tubers oblong; 

 1. 4-10 in., oblong or linear-lanceolate, many-veined, base 

 sheathing; raceme short, 3-i-o-fld. ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 

 finely acuminate, nearly as long as the straight erect, shortl}- 

 beaked ovary, which with the short, straight pedicel is i-i| in. 

 long; fl. ii-2 in, broad across the spreading 5-veined sep.; 

 dorsal sep, erect, ovate-oblong, acute, hooded, lateral rather 

 longer, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, falcate, spreading or 

 deflexed ; pet, linear-oblong, falcate, forming a hood with the 

 dorsal sep.; lip i in. long, twice as long as the sep. or more, 

 3 cleft to above the middle, side lobes subulate-lanceolate, 

 recurved or ascending, longer than the straight subulate mid 

 lobe, which has deflexed sides ; spur 3^ in., narrowly clavate, 

 mouth with a tooth; anth. -cells divaricate below, tubes as 

 long as the cells, pollinia narrowly pyriform, caudicles as long, 

 narrowly winged on one side, glands very small ; rostellum 

 triangular; stigmatic processes elongate, clavate ; fr. (imma- 

 ture) 6-winged. 



Moist region 2-4000 ft.; rare. Ambagamuwa ; Ramboda; also at 

 Dambiilla in the dry region. Fl. Oct.; white, with the spur green. 



Endemic. 



Our largest-flowered species. 



9. K. rhynchocarpa, Tritn. Syst. Cat. Ccyl. 91 (1885). 



//. stcnopc/a/a, Lindl. Cien. and .Sp. Orch. 324 (not of 319). Plaian- 

 thern rhynchocarpa^ Thw. Enum. 310. C. P. 3058. 

 Fl. V>. Ind. vi. 145. 



