ORCHIDACEiE 



H.alata Orchis foliosa Spreng., Syst. Veg. 3: 688 {\^2Q)\ Steud., 

 Nomencl. ed. 2, 2: 223 (1841), not Sw.^ 



Habenaria brachyceras Lindl, Gen. k Sp. Orch. 315 

 (1835), not Spreng. — H. bidentata Pa?j9p., Enum. PI. Cub. 

 mss. ex Steud.,^omenc\. ed. 2, 1 : 716 (1841). — H. monorrhiza 

 Cogn., in Urban Symb. Antill. 6: 307 (1909). 



"Habenaria alata; tuberibus subsphsericis, labello basi biden- 

 tato petalisque duobus interioribus minoribus lanceolatis, tribus 

 exterioribus ovatis subpatulis, germine alato, cornu lineari-com- 

 presso germine breviore. 



''Root fibrous, and having one or two small, nearly spherical 

 tubers. Stein 1 to 1 J foot high, erect, leafy. Leaves lanceolate, 

 acuminate, carinate, erect, glabrous. 



''Spike about 4 inches long, consisting of many, rather densely 

 placed flowers, each accompanied with a lanceolato-subulate 

 bractea. Corolla: with the petals scarcely patulous, the 3 outer 

 ones ovate, free, the inner smaller, lanceolate ; the lip, which is 

 never pendent, but at most standing forward, is the same size 

 as the inner petals, lanceolate, and has a tooth on each side at 

 the base, whilst on the under side, it runs down into a curved 

 compressed horn, nearly as long as the germen. Column very 

 short, thick, projecting forward, and with two tuberculated pro- 

 cesses. Anther, with the two cells distinct, their bases elongated, 

 so as to reach the tuberculated processes: Pollen-masses oval, 

 upon a very long, green, filiform, elastic stalk, having a round 

 gland at the base. Germen oblongo-clavate, slightly twisted, fur- 

 rowed ; the six angles of the furrows extended into as many 

 longitudinal winged processes." Hook. loc. cit. 



iSprengel (loc. cit.), and after him Steudel, supposed Orchis foliosa Sw. was incorrectly 

 ascribed to Africa and identified it incorrectly with Habenaria alata Hook. The Swartzian 

 species is now H. foliosa Lindl. from Cape of Good Hope. Correvon {Orch. Rust. 140) re- 

 fers 0. foliosa Soland. to H. alata Hort. 



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