TAB. 45. 



Tribe QPHRYDE^. 



Sub-tribe Habenarie^. 



Genus Habenaria. 



Habenaria Bonatea, Reichb. f. var. Boltoni, Bolus.— Werh^ 

 sjepius gracilior, foliis remotioribus, racemis laxe pauci-floris, 

 ceteris typicis. {Ex exempli, pluribus siccis et unico vivo.) — 

 H. Boltoni, Harv., Thes. Cap. i. (1859), /. 88. 



Hab. : South-eastern Region ; Cape Colony : Coldstream, 

 near Grahamstown, fl. Feb., /. Glass! (No. 6238 in my herb.); 

 woods near Howison's Poort, MacOimn .'—Natal : Inanda, 

 Wood, 969 ! 



Plate 45. Fig. 1, odd sepal, front view ; 2, ditto, back view ; 

 3, one of the side sepals, flattened out— all the latter nat. size ; d, 

 one of the petals x 2 ; 5, lip, the middle lobe flattened out, nat. 

 size ; 6, lip, column and ovary, x 1^ ; 7, column, stigmatic arms 

 cut off. 



Usually more slender than in the typical form, with more 

 distant leaves and racemes more lax and with fewer flowers — 

 other characters as in the typical form. 



Described from several dried specimens and a living specimen 

 sent by Mr. J. Glass, from which the drawing was made. Harvey's 

 figure in the Thesaurus Capensis shews simple petals — an error 

 which has been followed by Dr. Kranzlin in his Monograph, 

 p. 142, although Harvey describes them as bipartite. He has thus 

 been led to place these two species, H. Bonatea and H. Boltoni 

 far asunder, although there is no question that they are very 

 closely allied. 



