TAB. 66. 



Tribe Ophrydeae. 



Sub-tribe Habenarieae. 



Genus Habenaria. 



Habenaria laevigata, Limlley, in Ann. Nat. Hist., vol. iv, j}. 315 

 (1840) ; KraenzHn, Nonoijr. in Engl. Bot. Jahrh., Bd. xvi, p. 171 

 (1892). — Herba glabra erecta, f-l^-pedalis ; caulis strictus foliosus ; 

 folia 4-5, subremota erecta linearia vel lanceolata acuminata, 5-10 cm. 

 longa, in bracteas abeuntia ; spica cylindrica multiflora, bracteis 

 foliaceis ovatis acuminatis carinatis flores superantibus ; sepala late- 

 ralia deflexa lanceolata acuminata ; sepalnm impar ovato-oblongum 

 fornicatum, 6-7 mill, longum ; petala indivisa, oblique ovata, sepalo 

 imparl agglntinata ; labellum patens trilobum subcarnosum, lobis late- 

 ralibus deflexis linearibus, intermedio adscendenti latiore longioreque, 

 calcare filiformi gracillimo pendulo ovarium longe excedente (2-5-3 cm. 

 longo) ; clinandrium obtusissimum, antherae loculis subdivaricatis ; 

 rostellum tricuspidatum, bracbiis caudiculiferis brevissimis ; processus 

 stigmatiferi perbreves obtusissimi incurvi. {Ex exempli, plur. viv. 

 exsiccatisque.) — H. Ornithopoda, Reichenbach Jil., in Linnaea, vol. xx, 

 p. 696 (1847). 



Hab: South-western Region; Cape Colony: Euytersbosch, dis- 

 trict of George, Mund and Maire (about 1827). — South-eastern 

 Region; Cape Colony: near Graliamstown, Febr., Miss White; near 

 the same, alt. about 700 meters, Febr., J. Glass; Perie, above the 

 forest, Jan., T. R. Sim, No. 20! ; Tembuland and Maclear district in 

 various places. Bolus; grassy sides of Mt. Currie, near Kokstad, 

 1800 met., Febr., Tyson, No. 1075 ! ; Tsitsa Kiver, Schlechter, 

 No. 6367 ! — Orange Free State : Bester's Vallei, Harrismith district, 

 1650 met., Jan., Bolus. — Trans-Vaal Kepublic : near Bergendal, 

 Dec, Schlechter, No. 4012 ! ; Houtbosch Mt., Febr., ih. 



Plate 66. Fig. 1, flower, with bract ; 2, ditto, front view, the 

 ovary and the spur of the lip partly cut off ; 3, one of the side sepals ; 

 4, odd sepal ; 5, one of the petals ; 6, lip, side view, the spur cut off; 

 7, column with lip, side view ; 8, column only, front view ; 9, one of 

 the poUinia ; 10, the rostellum detached and flattened out ; 11, column 

 from another flower, — all variously magnified. 



A glabrous erect herb, f-l| ft. high ; stem straight leafy ; 

 leaves 4-5, subdistant erect linear-lanceolate acuminate, 5-10 cm. 



