1. Habenaria.] 159. OECHIBACEJE. 



19. H. Lawii, HooT^. J. 



A ground orchid 6-12" high with 3-4 erecto-patent elliptic, oblong 

 or lanceolate leaves 2-5-5" long above the middle of the stem and a 

 narrow spike 2-4" long densely clothed with linear acuminate bracts 

 below the flowers, but often with buds or abortive flowers in their 

 axils. Flowers very small sub-globose white -2-- 22" diam. Lateral 

 sepals oblong or linear-oblong •1--12" long, spreading, tip rounded, 

 margin incurved; dorsal -13" broadly ovate slightly concave, forming 

 a hood with the petals. Lip scarcely longer, concave, 3-lobed with 

 the central lobe larger than the lateral, lobes rounded, spur very 

 short succulent bulbous. Anther without tubes. 



Kanclii, on Ichadagh, 2500 ft. ! Parasnath, Clarke ! Fl. Aug.-Sept. 



Tubers 2, ovoid, about 1" long. Stem sometimes 6" to the first leaf, clothed 

 below witli inflated leaf sheaths or uppermost sheatli with a small amplexicaul 

 leaf, leaves acute or shortly aciuninate narrowed into a very short petiole-like 

 base. Bracts • 3" sUghtly exceeding the twisted ovary. Lateral sepals ascending 

 (according to F.B.I., spreading in my specimens when fresh). Petals obovate, 

 slightly winged anteriorly, refuse or roiuided. Lip described as 3-fid in F.B.I. 

 Coliunn hardly any with short acute rostellum. Anther-cells parallel, pollen 

 granular, pollinia with a small elastic caudicle (caudicle 0, F.B.I.), and a round 

 hyaline gland. Ovary slender twisted shorter than the •3--5"-long bracts. 



2. GOODYERA, Br. 



Ground orchids with short leafy stems, sometimes elongate and 

 creej)ing below, and small flowers in terminal, sometimes twisted 

 spikes. Sepals subequal, dorsal erect concave forming a hood with 

 the narrower petals conniving but free ; lateral erect or spreading, 

 covering the sac of the lip or not. Lip inferior, sessile at the base of 

 the column, entire, or with small side-lobes, cymbiform or subsaccate, 

 sac sometimes with filiform aj^pendages or setse within. Column 

 cylindric or with cupular top at the back of which the anther is hinged 

 with its base included, anther-cells distinct, rostellum erect 2 -fid, 

 at least after removal of the pollinia, which are pendulous from a 

 gland at its aj)ex, pollen finely granular. Stigma occupying a single 

 broad anticous surface below the rostellum. 



1. G. procera. Hook. 



Erect 12-18" high with inflated leaf sheaths at base. Leaves 

 lanceolate 4-6" long by • 8-1 • 5" broad, petioled, flat. Spikes 3-6" 

 (excluding peduncle), dense, of minute globose white flowers with 

 perianth • 1-- 12" long. Lip about three-fourths as long as the sepals 

 with a globose saccate base and very short erect side-lobes and minute 

 tongue-shaped front lobe, palate with 2 large calli and sac softly 

 setose within. 



Growing on rocks in the middle of streams, Singbhum ! Fl. March-April. 



Leaves with 6-8 parallel nerves each side of midrib, but one sometimes stronger 

 than the others, base tapering to the petiole. Bracts -3" finely acuminate, 

 sometimes thinly pubescent as are the rhachis and ovary, which is • 2" long. Capsule 

 •3", fusiform. 



3. SPIRANTHES, Rich. 



Terrestrial herbs with fibrous or tuberous roots and leafy stem, or 

 flowering stem leafless. Leaves various, usually narrow. Flowers 



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