PLAte 2686. 
HABENARIA REPENS, Nutt. 
OrcuIpAces. Tribe OpnRYDER. 
H. repens, Witt. Gen. Amer. ii. p. 190 ; Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 310 ; 
Chapm. #t. §. T. St. p. 461 es ogn. in Mart, Fl. Bras. oa eae: p. 91; 
Caules i be elongati, etuberiferi, radices numerosas emittentes ; 
florentes erecti, 4—2 ped. alti, foliosi. Folia ee oblongo-lanceolata, 
cucullatum, apiculatum ; lateralia ovata, breviter acuminata, 24 lin. 
longa. Petala bipartita, 2 lin. longa, lacinia postica falcato- lanceolata, 
acuta, 2-nervia, antica lineari-tili ormia, acuta, postica paullo 
in. lon is lineari 
longo. Columna lata, brevis, anther canalibus porrectis brevibus, 
processubus stigmaticis oblongis range staminodiis dentiformi- 
bus minutis, Capsula oblonga, 4-5 lin. longa.—JH/. tricuspis, A. % 
Fl. Cub. iii. p. 249. Z. radicans, Griseb. Cat. VI. Cub. p- 271 (in nota). 
AMERICA, —Chiefly on the coast-lands of the Caribbean Sea 
and iia the Gulf of Mexico to Florida and South Carolina, in 
marshes and ditches, aquatic or subaquatic: S. Carolina, Nuttall ; 
Georgia, na Savannah, hag mtg cabal near Augusta, Wray ; S. 
Florida, Sumter Co., Cortios, ' 2772 ; Lake Co., near Eustis, Nash, 578, 
873 ; Guten round Lake Duns ‘Salo vin » 183 5 500 Tene Grey- 
ag 4422; near Georgetown amber 7232 ; Lower canis 
eee and Squires, 394 ; Brazil, prov. Santa Catherina, at Blumenau, 
873. 
A very distinct and widely diffused species, readily distinguished by 
its submersed creeping stems, without tubers, and numerous long roots. 
Dr. Rusby remarks that it is a characteristic water plant, and his 
