Habe7iaria.'\ OrchideCE. 233 



polHnia clavate, caudicles short, glands small; staminodes 

 large; rostellum short, acute; stigmatic processes short, stout. 



Ceylon (Macrae). Fl. (?); sep. greenish, lip and pet. white. 



Also in S.W. India. 



The only Ceylon specimen seen is Macrae's, in Herb. Lindley.; there 

 is, however, a drawing of a small state in Herb. Peraden., without locality. 

 I doubt//. \Vi^htia)ia being distinct from the Himalayan H. goodycroides. 

 —J. D. H. 



13. K. aristata, Trim. Syst. Cat. Ceyl. 91 (1885) in part. 

 Peristyliis aristatiis., Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 300; Thw. Enum. 310 



(in part). C. P. 3081. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 158. Wight, Ic. t. 1698 {Peristylus exilis). Ann. Bot. 

 Gard. Calcutt. viii. t. 409. 



Stem with the spike \\-2 ft., very slender, leafy about the 

 middle, and with a few narrow sheaths above; root of fleshy 

 fibres; 1. 3-6 in, long, sessile or narrowed into a short broad 

 petiole, oval-lanceolate, acuminate, membranous, 3-veined, 

 sheath short, loose; spike 6-10 in., very slender, lax-fld., quite 

 glabrous; bracts \ in., lanceolate, shorter than the slender 

 beaked suberect ov. ; fl. about \ in. broad, membranous; sep. 

 subequal, obtuse, i -veined, dorsal linear-oblong, erect, con- 

 cave, lateral oblong-lanceolate, spreading or reflexed; pet. 

 rather shorter than the sep., forming a hood with the dorsal 

 sep., ovate, subacute, i -nerved; lip nearly twice as long as the 

 Sep., very variable in length, clawed, limb hastately tripartite, 

 side segm. filiform, falcately incurved, with often revolute tips, 

 mid segm. shorter, more slender, straight; spur clavate or 

 fusiform, about as long as the lip or shorter; anth. minute, 

 cells parallel, tubes o, pollinia minute, pyriform, of few grains, 

 caudicles very short, glands small ; rostellum obscure ; stigmatic 

 processes at the mouth of the spur, clavate; fr. erect, nearly 

 |- in. long, fusiform, very shortly beaked. 



Montane zone above 4000 ft.; rather common. Ramboda; Dolos- 

 bagie ; Pedurutalagala. Fl. Sept. Oct. ; pale green. 

 Also in the Himalaya, Burma, and S. India. 



14. K. Trimeni, Hook. f. 



H. goodycroides., Herb. Peraden. (non Don). 



Stem with the spike 12-24 ii^-. leafy towards the base only 

 or upwards ; tubers oblong or cylindric ; 1. 3-5 by ii-2| in., 

 oval, acute, many-veined, base sheathing ; ped, 3-6 in., with 

 scattered lanceolate sheaths ; spike 2-7 in., oblong, dense-fld.; 

 bracts \-\ in., lanceolate, longer than the slender beaked ov. ; 

 fl. \ in. long, sep. and pet. membranous, obtuse ; sep. linear- 

 oblong, I -veined, veins slightly thickened (or of the lateral 

 spurred) dorsally below the tip ; pet. longer and broader than 

 the Sep., oblong, tip rounded, veins 3, very slender ; lip longer 



