Habenaria.'] Orckldecs. 2 3 1 



Stem 1-2 ft., leafy at the base and upwards; tubers large, 

 clavate; 1. 2-6 in., sessile, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute or acuminate, many-veined, base sheathing; spike 

 2-3 in., dense-fld. ; bracts about i in, long, as long as the long 

 slender beaked ov. or longer, narrowly lanceolate, finely 

 acuminate; fl. |-| in. across the spreading or deflexed 3-veined 

 lateral sep. ; dorsal sep. cymbiform, acute, shorter than the 

 oblique broadly ovate or orbicular subacute, deflexed lateral, 

 pet. linear, forming a hood with the dorsal sep. ; lip hardly as 

 long as the lateral sep., narrow, 3-lobed to the middle, lobes 

 decurved, subulate or linear-lanceolate, acute, median longest, 

 spur i-i;^ in., cylindric, obtuse, mouth with a small tooth; 

 anth.-cells divaricate below, tubes nearly straight, pollinia 

 clavate, caudicles long, glands minute; rostellum minute; 

 stigmatic processes elongate, incurved, adnate to the mouth of 

 the spur ; fr. fusiform, nearly i in. long, including the slender 

 decurved beak, which is nearly as long as the strongly ribbed 

 body. 



Moist and intermediate region 2-4000 ft.; rare. Galagama and Bila- 

 huloya; Lunagala; Uma-oya. Fl. Nov.-Feb. ; white, end of spur green. 

 Endemic. 

 Lindley named two species H. stenopetala^ hence that name is dropped. 



10. K. viridiflora, Br. Prodr. 312 (1810). 



Orchis viridiflora, Sw., Moon, Cat. 59. Thw. Enum. 309. C. P. 2372. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 150. Wight, Ic. t. 1705. 



Scapigerous, stem short ; tubers f-i in., ovoid or oblong; 

 1. few or many, chiefly radical, 2-4 in., linear-lanceolate, acute 

 or acuminate, coriaceous, margins not thickened, veins obscure, 

 base sheathing ; scape 4-14 in., slender, with many lanceolate 

 sheaths; raceme closely or laxly many-fld. ; bracts ^ in., much 

 shorter than the (f in.) beaked ov., lanceolate, finely acumi- 

 nate ; fl. \-^ in. across the spreading 3-veined sep., coriaceous 

 or rather fleshy; dorsal sep. short, orbicular-ovate, or henii- 

 spheric, lateral much longer, ~-\ in. long, broadly obliquely 

 ovate, obtuse, spreading or reflexed ; pet. broadly obliquely 

 ovate, as long as the dorsal sep.; lip longer than the sep., 

 3-partite, segm. variable in length, thickly subulate, lateral 

 recurved, terminal shorter, straight, spur as long as the ov., 

 slightly thickened towards the end, mouth narrow, thickened 

 on each side by the adnate bases of the long stigmatic 

 processes ; anth.-cells short, divaricate below, tubes short, up 

 curved, pollinia pyriform, caudicles very short, glands rather 

 large ; rostellum minute ; stigmatic processes long, clavate, 

 projecting beyond the mouth of the spur ; fr. erect, | in. 



