134 CXLVIII. OBOHIDEJB. (J. D. Hooker.) [Habenaria. 



** Petals 2-partite. 



f Stem leafy upwards. Racemes many-fld. 



Sepals with filiform tips. 



4. H. stenopetala, Lindl. Gen. $ Sp. Orchid. 319 (not 324) ; tall, 

 leaves oblong or ovate-lanceolate base narrowed or broad and amplexicaul, 

 raceme dense-fld., bracts as long as the ovaries, segments of petals slender 

 equal or the lower shorter, segments of tripartite lip filiform, spur long 

 slender equalling the ovary. 



NORTH WEST INDIA; road to Kashmir, Royle. SIZKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 3-6000 

 ft., J. D. J2". &c. UPPER ASSAM ; theNaga hills, Griffith, Prain. LOWER BENGAL; 

 at Mymensing, Clarke. OEISSA ; at Singboom, Clarke. The CONCAN ; Stocks, &c. 



Stem 1-2 ft., stout. Leaves, 6-8 in., base contracted into a broad petiole or sessile. 

 'Raceme short, 4-6 in. ; bracts membranous; flowers very variable in size, greenish ; 

 sepals oblong-lanceolate, %-\ in. long, membranous, 3-nerved, filiform tips as long 

 as the blade or shorter ; lower segment of the petals sometimes obsolete ; segments of 

 lip very variable, the lateral sometimes as long or longer than the middle one, at 

 others they are much shorter and subulate ; spur equalling the ovary ; anther-cells 

 narrow, parallel, tubes nearly as long as the cells; caudicles of pollinia slender, 

 glands small ; stigmatic processes elongate, clavate ; rostellum large, triangular, 

 erect. Capsule -f in., linear-oblong. A very variable plant ; the flowers of the 

 Orissa and Bengal specimens are remarkably small ; of some Sikkim ones also very 

 small. 



5. K. macrostachya, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 307 ; leaves large 

 crowded above the middle of the robust stem, raceme lax-fld., bracts equal- 

 ling the ovary, segments of petals subequal filiform, segments of 3-partite 

 lip subequal filiform, spur shorter than the ovary. Thwaites Enum. 309. 



TEAVANCORE ; on the Anamallay hills, Beddome (in Herb. Calcutt.). CEYLON, 

 Macrae, alt, 4000 ft., Thwaites. 



Stem 2 ft. Leaves 5-7 in., obovate or oblanceolate, acute, broadly petioled. 

 'Raceme 6-8 in. ; bracts and ovary very narrow; sepals f in. long; petals and lip 

 spotted with red ; lip longer than the sepals, spur very slender, thickened down- 

 wards ; anther-tubes as long as the parallel cells, suberect, pollinia pyriform, glands 

 minute ; stigmatic processes long, slender, adnate to the mouth of the lip ; ros- 

 tellum small. The spur is stoutest in the Travancore specimen. 



6. K. andamanica, Hook. f. Ic. Plant, ined. ; leaves crowded 

 towards the middle of the stout stem, raceme lax-fid., bracts rather shorter 

 than the ovary, upper segment of petals very slender, lower broader divided 

 above the middle into 3 filiform lacinise, side lobes of lippalmately multifid, 

 midlobe linear 3-fid, spur shorter than the ovary. 



ANDAMAN ISLANDS ; Parish. 



Stem 12-18 in. Leaves 3-4 in., ovate -lanceolate, acute. Raceme 6-8 in.; 

 bracts lanceolate; ovary 1^ in., very slender ; sepals \ in. long ; laciniaj of mid- 

 lobe of lip filiform; anther-cells parallel, tubes rather shorter than the cells ; glands 

 of pollinia minute ; stigmatic processes subcyl ; ndric, elongate; rostellum erect. 



Sepals without filiform tips. 



7. H. dig-itata, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 307 ; leaves ovate or 

 ovate-oblong, raceme laxly many-fid., lateral sepals ovate acute, dorsal 

 puborbicular, petals bipartite, segments subequal or the upper broader, lip 

 tripartite segments linear, spur equalling the ovary. Dalz. Gibs. Bomb. 



