432 SCITAMINACEAE, | Habenaria. 
base. Column short, with a short beak or rostellwm erect under the anther. 
Anther terminal but adnate on the face of the column, the cells parallel 
or diverging and sometimes free at the tips. Pollen-masses 2, granular, 
the caudicles terminating in naked pees distant from each other and 
not‘immersed in cells of the 2-lobed s a. — Terrestrial. Rhizome 
tuberous, but annually renewed by the saakcrn of a fresh tuber when 
the previous one decays. Stems also annually renewed, erect, leafy at 
the base or throughout; the leaves passing into sheathing scales. Flowers 
bracteate in a terminal spike. 
ry large genus, ae over the greater part of the world. 
1. H. holochila, sp. n. — Erect, 1—2'/2 ft. high. Tuber slender, fusi- 
ities stulous. Jeaves 5—10, membranous, ovato- or elliptico- 
oblong, 4—6‘ > 1'/2—2’, acuminate, sessile, sheathing at the base, with 
3—5 primary and 6—14 secondary nerves. Flowers dull greenish, in- 
conspicuous, arranged in a long many-flowered spike, shorter noe thet 
upporting bracts, which are rae and leaf-like below, gradually 
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subequal, broadly ovate, 2“ long, all connivent. Petals as long as the 
sepals, connivent, suddenly tapering from a broad uneven-sided base to 
a slender linear truncate or emarginate recurved apex. Lip thick, linear, 
entire, truncate, ridged in the middle, curved-ascending, nearly as long 
as the sepals and provided with a thick clavate spur longer than itself 
and only little shorter than the ovary. Anther-cells nearly parallel. 
Capsule 6—8”, Seeds oblong, margined. 
In boggy ground of the heights above Kamalo, Mo sia on Eeka, Maui! near 
the mountain house, and on the plateau of Waimea, Kauai! (Kn.). 
Orver LXXXI. SCITAMINACEAE. 
Flowers usually hermaphrodite and irregular, rarely unisexual. Perianth 
superior, in 2 series, both petal-like, or the outer aoe on or pes 
each 3-toothed, 3-lobed, or of 3 oe Enea usually 3 or 6; but 
in most genera only one bears an anther, the others are without ‘ies 
or barren and petal-like, and then called praia or inner corolla; one 
of these, usually larger and opposite the fertile stamen, is the labellum. 
Anthers 2- or 1-celled. Ovary inferior, 3-celled, with 1 or more ovules 
in each cell, or rarely 1-celled. Style single, with an entire or lobed 
stigma. Fruit a berry or capsule. Seeds arillate, with copious albumen 
eo ‘Embryo central. — Herbs, usually with a perennial rhizome. 
tem usually short, or formed of convolute leaf-sheaths and then attaining 
. considerable height. Leaves entire, with long-sheathing petioles, the 
limb often very large, with numerous parallel veins diverging from the 
