Habenaria.'] cxxxiii. orchide^ (rolfe). 235 



GG. H. pantothrix, Krdnzl. ex Engl. Hochgeh. Fl. Trop. Afr. 

 181 {name only); Krdnzl. in Engl. Jahrh. xvi. 89. Plant strong, 1^ 

 ft. high, leafy near the base, with sheathing bracts above. Leaves 

 3-4, oblong, acute, 3J in. long, 14 lin. broad, base amply sheathing ; 

 sheaths dense, ovate, acute, pellucid. Racemes dense, many-fiowered. 

 Bracts sparsely or densely pilose. Pedicels 7 lin. long. Flowers 

 medium-sized, more or less densely pilose except the lip and spur. 

 Dorsal sepal oblong, cucullate, carinate, small ; lateral much larger 

 than the dorsal, reflexed, cucullate, obovate, acute, 2J lin. long and 

 broad. Petals bipartite ; posterior lobe with a very broad rounded 

 base, irregularly ovate, acute ; anterior lobe nearly straight, reduced in 

 front to a pair of minute, acute teeth, of which the upper is the 

 larger. Lip clawed, linear, thick, acute ; side lobes reduced to 

 rectangular teeth ; spur filiform, clavate, 6 lin. long. Stigmatic 

 processes straight, spathulate, obliquely truncate in front. Anther 

 channels slightly shorter than the stigmas ; apex attenuate. Stami- 

 nodes rounded, tuberculate. Rostellum triangular, acute, a little 

 longer than the ovary. 



Xlle Ziand. Abyssinia, ScMmpery 1324, in part ! 



67. H. Welwitschii, Keichb.f. in Flora, 1865, 179. Plant 1^-2^ 

 ft. high. Leaves about 3, suJ3radical, linear, subobtuse, conduplicate to 

 the apex, 2^,-7 in. long. Scapes 1-2^ ft. high ; sheaths about 5, de- 

 creasing upwards into the bracts. Racemes lax, 12- to many-flowered, 

 3J-12 in. long. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 4-8 lin. long. 

 Pedicels 8-9 lin. long. Dorsal sepal oblong, obtuse, 2^ lin. long ; lateral 

 obliquely obovate-oblong, apiculate, 3 lin. long, about as broad. Petals 

 bipartite; posterior lobe linear-filiform, 3 lin. long; anterior lobe 

 obovate-oblong, subobtuse, 2\ lin. long. Lip tripartite; side lobes 

 oblong, subobtuse, 2\ lin. long ; front lobe linear, filiform, b^ lin. long ; 

 spur 6 J lin. long, filiform below, clavate-inflated at the apex. Stigmatic 

 processes subclavate-linear, straight. If lin. long. Anther channels 

 2 lin. long, curved at the apex. Rostellum triangular, subulate, 1 lin. 

 long. — Kranzl. in Engl. Jahrb. xvi. 68. 



Dtower Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; between LopoUo and Humpata, in pastures 

 near rivers, rather rare, Weluntsch, 721 ! 



68. H. anaphysema, Reichh. f. in Flora, 1867, 101. Tuber 



j spherical-ovoid, villous, 5-7 lin. long. Stem slender, 10-12 in. long* 



Leaves 4, linear, acuminate, rosulate, 4 in. long, H lin- broad; upper 



distant, sheath-like. Racemes 2 in. long, about 8 -flowered. Bracts 



I cuneate- oblong, acuminate, shorter than the pedicels, 2-3 lin. long. 



i Dorsal sepal oblong ; lateral oblong-ovate, very oblique, laterally 



I apiculate. Petals bipartite; posterior lobe linear, short, subulate, 



i minutely papillose ; anterior lobe longer and broader than the pos- 



; terior, subfalcate, smooth. Lip trilobed ; lobes linear, acuminate ; side 



lobes shorter than the front; spur cylindrical, inflated and uncinate 



