232 07'chideCS. [HabeJiaria. 



long, fusiform, straight or curved, thickly ribbed, narrowed 

 into an incHned beak, pedicel \ in. or less. 



Low country in both regions, often in paddy fields ; common, rarely 

 extending into montane zone. Fl. Dec.-Feb. ; green. 

 Also in Indian Peninsula. 

 Thwaites erroneously gives this as a high montane plant. 



11. K. breviloba, Tritn. Syst. Cat. Ceyl. 91 (1885). 

 Peristylus brcvilobus, Thw. Enum. 311. C. P. 3493. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 159. 



Stem with spike 6-18 in., slender, leafy at the base only 

 or upwards; tubers oblong; 1. 2-3 by -|-| in., oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, rather coriaceous, base sheathing, veins very slender, 

 sheaths of upper long, of lower short; spike 2-3 in., obloiig, 

 rather dense-fld. ; bracts about as long as the ov., membranous, 

 obtuse, sep. and pet. connivent, i -veined, obtuse, dorsal sep. 

 \ in., linear-oblong, lateral narrower; pet. broader than the 

 sep., broadly oblong, tips rounded, veins branching; lip longer 

 than the sep., claw keeled in the centre above, dilating into an 

 orbicular or subflabclliform entire veined limb \ in. broad, 

 spur a minute inflated incurved shortly pedicelled sac; anth. 

 very small, cells parallel, tubes o; rostellum bifid, concealing 

 the glands of the pollinia; stigmatic processes o. 



Moist low country below 3000 ft. ; rare. Near Ratnupura ; Dolosbagie ; 

 Ambagamuwa. Fl. Sept. 

 Endemic. 



12. K. Wig-htii, Trim. Syst. Cat. Ccyl. 91 (1SS5). 



Hcrini7iium planiagmeum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. xviii. sub t. 1499. 

 Peristylus plantagineus., Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 300; Thw. Enum. 310. 

 No C. P. number. 



Fl. B. Ind.vi. 162. Wight, Ic. t.921. Bot. Mag. t.3397 {H. goody eroides). 



Stem with the spike 1-2 ft, robust, leafy chiefly about the 

 middle, closely embraced with many long narrowly lan- 

 ceolate sheaths above the 1., with loose sheaths below them ; 

 tubers large, cylindric-oblong; 1. 5-7 by 2^,-3 in., oblong- 

 lanceolate, acuminate or acute, wavy, strongly veined beneath ; 

 base subamplexicaul, sheaths tight; spike 4-8 in., narrow, 

 dense-fld.; bracts \ in., longer than the fl., erect, very narrowly 

 lanceolate, acuminate; fl about ,y in. broad, ov. erect; sep. 

 connivent, obtuse, dorsal broadly ovate, lateral rather longer, 

 oblong, apiculatc below the tip; pet. very broad, obliquely 

 orbicular, tips recurved, veins branched ; lip about as long as 

 the Sep., broadly obovatc, shortly 3-lobed, lobes obtuse, con- 

 tracted beyond the very broad, concave base, spur very small, 

 globose; anth. short, cells parallel, tubes short, recurved,. 



