220 ORCHIDACEE. — [ ZeuxINE. 
Whole plant 2-10 in. high. Stem and peduncle glabrous. Leaves 1-2 
in. long, linear, acuminate, sessile on the hyaline truncate sheaths, 
gradually passing into linear bracts higher up. Raceme }-2 in. long, | 
densely-fid., glabrous ; fl. bract 4 in. long, ovate-lariceolate, acuminate, 
much longer than the ovary. Flowers about 4 in. long, white or 
pink. Sepals unequal, the dorsal one ovate, concave, lateral pair 
obliquely lanceolate, connivent. Petals falcately oblong, obtuse, 
forming with the dorsal sepal a hood over the column. Lip yellow, 
as long as the sepals, cymbiform and saccate at the base; terminal — 
lobe short, subquadrate, entire or bifid. Column very short, with 
two wings at its apex covering the anther ; rostellum with two short 
stout parallel arms. Amther depressed, very shortly beaked. 
Pollinia attached within the tip of a linear appendage of the gland. 
Capsule ellipsoid, about 4 in. long. 
Common within the area in open turfy and usually moist ground. 
Flowers during February and Merch. .Distris.: Abundant in 
assy places throughout the greater portion of India, ascending 
to about 5,000 ft. on the outer Himalayan ranges; found also in 
Afghanistan, Ceylon, China, Japan, Java and the Philippines. 
25. HABENARIA, Willd. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 131. 
Terrestrial leafy herbs with undivided or lobed tubers or fleshy 
root-fibres. Leaves flat, with sheathing bases. Flowers small or 
large, in racemes or spikes. Sepals subequal,-the lateral pair 
spreading reflexed or deflexed, or sometimes erect. Petals smaller 
or larger than the sepals, entire or 2-cleft, often connivent with the 
dorsal sepal to form a hood over the column. Lip adnate to base 
of column, entire, 3-lobed or 3 partite, its base spurred. Column 
short, usually broad ; stigmas 2, distant or conjoined across the 
face. Anther-cells adnate to the front of the column, discrete, 
rarely touching, parallel or divergent below, their bases often 
prolonged into tubes containing the candicles ; staminodes rugulose, 
one on the outer side of each anther-cell, rarely filiform ; pollinia 
2, clavate or pyriform, usually grooved, sometimes 2-partite ; 
caudicles long, short or obsolete ; glands exposed, flat and discoid 
or elliptic and globular, or elongate with truncate ends. Species 
about 500, widely distributed in temp. subtrop. and trop. regions of 
the world. 
Petals 2-partite, segments filiform; lateral 
sepals deflexed, tips filiform; flowers 
greenish . ° . . : . . 1. H. graveolens. 
