ORCHIDACEiE 



Orchis entomantha La Llave, Nov. Veg. Descr. 2 : Orch. H. entom- 

 Opusc. 8 (1825). "^^^^ 



Habenaria acutiflora A. Etch. <§ Gal., in Ann. Sci. Nat. 

 ser. 3, 3: 29 (1845). — H. filifera JVats., in Proc. Am. Acad. 

 26: 154 (1891); Sckltr., in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 7: 539 (1899).— 

 H. clypeata KranzL, Orch. Gen. et Sp. 1 : 313 (1898) in part, 

 not Lindl. 



" O. Labello biglanduloso quinque partito ; laciniis linearibus 

 revolutis; calcare ovario longiore; foliis vaginantibus ovatis, 

 quinque nerviis. 



"Planta terrestris, vix pedalis. — Bulbus solidus, subglobosus 

 indivisus ; radiculse filiformes. — Caulis simplex, angulatus, erec- 

 tus. — Folia ovata, rugata, alterna, vaginantia, nerviis quinque 

 longitudinalibus. — Spica florum laxa. Flores alterni, bracteis 

 lanceolatis, carinatis involuti. — Perigonium lacteum, concavum, 

 5 fidum; tribus segmentis superioribus connatis ; duobus laterali- 

 bus divergentibus acutis. — Labellum quinque-partitum, con- 

 color, laciniis lineari-setaceis revolutis. — Gynostemum, capita- 

 tum, conico ovatum, obscure bifidum. Anthera bilocularis supra 

 excavata. PoUinis massulaeduse obovatse, pedicellatae, lutescentes. 

 Stigma cavum, intra duos loculos antherae hians. — Ovarium tri- 

 quetrum, nonnihil contortum. Calcar sive Nectarium longissi- 

 mum, filiforme, tubulatum, intra labellum et gynostemum 

 excavatum duabus glandulis virescentibus versus faucem corni- 

 culi prominentibus. — Capsula ut in congeneribus. 



"Habitat prope VaUisoIetum; floretque Julio et Augusto. 



"Obs. Orchidi 5 setce Michauooii planta parum affinis; charac- 

 teribus plurimis sane diversa. L, 



zuela, mounted on the same sheet, and found also in other herbaria, determined by Lind- 

 ley as H. entomantha. The Mexican and Venezuelan plants are of different species, and the 

 name must attach to the Mexican plant. It is possible that H. maxillaris Reichb. f. (not 

 Lindl. ), Beitrage zu einer Orchideenkunde Central Amerikai 61, also belongs here. (A. A. E. ) 



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