398 ORCHIDACE^. 



CHEIROSTYLIS. f.b.i. 148 xc. 



Terrestrial herbs with tuberous rootstock, extending 

 upwards into the stem, which has a few spirally 

 arranged, not jointed, leaves near the base, and ends in 

 a raceme of small flowers. These with a comparatively 

 large lip, but small sepals and petals, of which the 

 median sepal and two adjacent petals are united as 

 hood. Column short with two erect appendages in front, 

 anthers erect, Polliniums two, with short caudicles. 



Species about eight, in the East Indies, Malay archipelago 

 and tropical Africa. 



Chcirostylis flabcllata Wight; F.B.I. vi 105, XC 5. 



Rootstock in appearance like artichoke, pinkish brown, 



lumpy. Stem hairy. Leaves /^ to I inch, ovate-acute, 



sheathing at the base, three or five-nerved : upper reduced 



to scales with distinct sheathing portion. Flowers five 



or six, % inch across. Lip bifid, each half deeply 



fringed. Capsule egg-shaped, H to % inch. Wight Ic. 



t. 1727. 



In shady places. Nilgiris : near Ootacamund on Snowdon. 

 Pulneys : Bearshola and Church Cliff shola, near Kodaikanal. 

 Flowering April. Bourne 1225,"^ 1263,* 4778- 



Geu. Dist. Higher mounlains of India from Bhotan southwards to 

 Tenasserim and Ceylon. 



HABENARIA. f.b.i. 148 cvi. 



Ground orchids with tubers and thick roots. 

 Leaves spirally arranged, clasping at the base, not folded 

 along the nerves. Flowers in terminal bracteate 

 spikes or racemes. Pollen sacs lying on either side of 

 the column, and each enclosing one club-shaped or 

 pear-shaped poUinium. 



Species about 400 in temperate and tropical regions. In 

 England, the Butterfly orchid. 



f Sepals spreading b 



^ \ Sepals erect i 



