pLiTE 2322. 



HABEWARIA GRIFFITHII, Hook. f. 



ORCHiDEiE. Tribe Ophryde.e. 



secu lifloL fln f ^^'''-^ j^^e^r -oblongisve acutis obtusisverspica 

 Ion" or w' r "' Parvis decurvis, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis ovario 



Sm^n t • ^"'^^'■^^"^ sublanceolatisve suberectis, labello sepalis 

 v^d v«H . '' 'T ° T^l^^rato oblongo apice 3-fido lobis parallelis 



Li,rvn •' °''''i '' .^""^^^'"'^ ^^^^'^ '^"^^^i ^«^^« ^asi "trinque filo erecto 

 sXmnH^''^'''^ • "^i^^^l^^Jo instructa loculis divergentibus rostello 0, 

 BrU T 1 """• ^ ???'^. antheras late quadrata. H. decipiens, Hook. f. FL 



flexuotus ^"^-'^^^'^of' ^"^^'•^^"s P'-^r^'^'^ oblongis. Caulis erectus v. 

 nphnlofo * i • ,2 poll- longa, sive membranacea, inferiora sub- 

 petiolata. S^nca 1-2-pollicaris ; iiores ^ poll, lati, albi. 



IvsVw^K^"?*^'''' P^'"'''^' *''® ^'^'^^^s ^^ ^^'^^^^^ I ^^^^ repeatedly ana- 

 It resPrnKi °^ satisfactory results, because of their very soft tissues, 

 one i^ p .!,^,'f^^*''«'^^''*e.v more than a Ilabenaria, and was mixed with 

 state It ]«. ^^^^"^^""i"- Griffith analysed its flowers in a fresh 

 his ' Nnf , ^"^^^^ *^^™ i"^ Jiis ' Icones,' and referred to these figures in 

 on eacl VI f ^^^^^ "^^^^ ^^rd\y intelligible. The curious filaments 

 stamen c!^ ^T ^ *^^ anther he regards, no doubt rightly, as sterile 

 drium • ir ^"^^ *^"^*^ unable to detect the ' furcation of the clinan- 

 dnVd e ■ ^ ™^tellum,' which he describes, and which is probably in 

 ^ specimens shrivelled up and not discernible. 



in the ^' ^escribing this plant under the name of Ilabenaria decipiens 

 If.decipifx^- ^^^'^^^ India,' I was under the impression that 

 ■^'hich '^^ °A **^^ght was the same as IL longicalcarata, A. Rich, with 

 in Wi(.^I^' i: "^'^^^^^^^^j AVight (not A. Rich.), it was confounded 

 tanslefftl^' I^eseriptions, Icones, and " " 

 J. D. ^ ^^^ P^^nts at vol. vi. p. 197 of the 'Flora of British India.' 



^nlarged^ ^^^^' ^ ^^"^ ^' ^^P- ^- Front, and 5. back, view of anther. All 



Herbarium. I have disen- 



