CXXY. ORCniDACE.i:, 719 



3-6 by f-lo "^-5 elliptic or elliptic-obloug, acute, spreading, membranous, 

 narrowed at the base into a short sheath. Flowers pure white, sub- 

 secund, in lax spikes 3-5 in. long ; scapes 5-6 in. long, with many 

 distant open lanceolate acuminate sheaths ^-1 in. long ; bracts |-| in. 

 long, ovate-lanceolate, finely acuminate, much shorter than the beaked 

 ovary. Sepals strongly 3-nerved ; lateral sepals ^ by y^j- in., falcately 

 oblong, subacute ; dorsal sepal ■§• by -^ in., ovate-oblong. Petals ^ by 

 2V in., linear-lanceolate, acute. Lip -^-^ in. long by about | in broad, 

 flabelliform from a narrow claw, many-nerved, 3-lobed, puberulous ; 

 lateral lobes half-ovate, :j by § in., subacute ; midlobe nearly but not 

 quite as long and only half as broad as the lateral, linear, acute ; spur 

 1| in. long, equal to or longer than the ovary, pendulous. Anther-tubes 

 short, upcurved ; pollinia pyriform, as long as their broad caudicles, which 

 are inserted upon an (at first apparently simple) entire lanceolate concave 

 gland, which afterwards divides longitudinally, each pollinia carrying 

 away one half. Stigmatic processes large, clavate. Eostellum tri- 

 angular, broad. Capsule | in. long, turgidly fusiform, curved, with a 

 short slender beak. il. B. I. v. 6, p. 141 ; Wight, Icon. t. 1710 ; Trim. 

 Yl. Ceyl. V. 4, p. 229 ; Kraenzlin, Orchid. Gen. et Sp. v. 1 (1897) p. 413 ; 

 Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1030.— Flowers : Mar.-Apr. 



KoNKAN : Bahelll; Matheran, H. M. Birdwood. Deccan: Anibenala Gliat near 

 Lanoli, Kanifkarl — Distrib. India (Subtropical Himalaya, Behar, Central India, 

 W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



10. Habenaria commelinifolia, Wall, ex Lindl. Gen. 6f Sp. 

 Orchid. (1835) p. 325. Stem 2-3 ft. high, with sheaths at tlie base, 

 leafy upwards, the leaves becoming gradually smaller, passing into 

 lanceolate caudate-acuminate bract-like sheaths below the spike ; 

 tubers ellipsoid. Leaves 3-6 by f-l|- in., oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 

 flat, sheathing at the base. Flowei's sessile, white, inodorous, in spikes 

 4-8 in. long; bracts 1 in. long, lanceolate, produced to a fine acicular 

 point, exceeding the body of the ovary without the beak. Lateral sepals 

 nearly | in. long, very gibbous, hatchet-shaped, beaked, with many 

 arched nerves ; dorsal sepal | in. long, orbicular, shortly beaked, hooded. 

 Petals g by -|- in., obliquely ovate-oblong, obtuse. Lip linear for about 

 1 in. from the base, -^ in. broad, then divided into 3 segments, of which 

 the lateral are filiform and exceed 1 in. long, the middle segment |- by 

 JL in., linear, shorter than the lateral; spur 1|-2| in. long, incurved, 

 green, with a funnel-shaped mouth. Anther-tubes long, straight, erect. 

 Stigmatic processes large, clavate, incurved. Eostellum short, triangular. 

 Capsules sessile, fusiform, 1| in. long including the curved beak which 

 is twice as long as the body of the capsule. Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 143 ; 

 Kraenzlin, Orchid. Gen. et Sp. v. 1 (1897) p. 322; AYoodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 12(1899) p. 520; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1031. Orchis 

 commelinifolia, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. v. 3 (1832) p. 451 ; Grab. Cat. p. 201. — 

 Flowers : Sept. 



E.ONKAN: Stocksl, Law], Dalzelll; S. Kontan in pasture-lands, G^ra^am. Deccan: 

 Khandala, Woodrow. — Distrib. India (Tropical W. Himalaya, Bengal, Birma, 

 W. Peninsula). 



11. Habenaria Heyneana, Lindl. Gen. Sf Sp. Orchid. (1835) 

 p. 320. Whole plant scarcely reaching 10 in. high ; stem stout, leafy. 



