140 CXLVIII. OBOHIDE^B. (J. D. Hooker.) [Habenaria. 



NILGHIRI and TRAVANCORE MTS., Heyne, &c. 



Stem 6-12 in. Leaves 2-5 in., usually linear-oblong, rarely (as figured by 

 Wight) shorter and broader. Spike 3-6-fld. ; upper half of ovary almost filiform ; 

 flowers nearly 1 in. long ; side lobes of lip longer than the linear midlobe ; mouth of 

 spur caruncled ; anther-cells broad, parallel, tubes rather long spreading, pollinia 

 as long as their caudicles j stigmatic processes short, clavate ; rostellum low, broad. 



25. K. platyphylla, Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 690; scapigerous, leaves 

 sessile orbicular or elliptic, spike short dense-fld., bracts shorter than the 

 long-beaked ovary, sepals broadly oblong obtuse, petals linear narrow, lip 

 3-lobed, side lobes small rounded, midlobe lanceolate, spur longer than the 

 ovary slender. Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 323 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 201 ; 

 Wight Ic. 1. 1709. Orchis platyphyllos, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 10 ; 0. plantaginea, 

 Roxb. Cor. PI. 32, t. 37 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 450. O. Eoxburghii, Pers. Syn. ii. 

 503. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA ; from the Concan and the Circars to Travancore. 



Leaves 3-6, appressed to the earth, fleshy, 3-5 in. long, and as broad or narrower. 

 Scape 6-18 in. ; stout, strict; sheaths many, erect, narrowly subulate ; spike 2-4 in., 

 round -topped, flowers white, sweet-scented; sepals concave ; ovary 1 in., beak slender, 

 as long as the body ; lip much less deeply lobed than in others of this group, margins 

 erose, spur sometimes twice as long as the ovary, mouth funnel-shaped, with a short 

 tooth; anther-cells divergent, tubes long, polliniar glands small; stigmatic processes 

 subglobose ; rostellum short triangular. 



26. H. Ziindleyana, Steud. Nomencl. Ed. 2, 716; leaves subradical 

 large ovate-oblong acute, scape tall with a few lanceolate sheaths at the 

 tip, raceme few-fld., flowers large, bracts narrowly lanceolate shorter than 

 the very long ovary, dorsal sepal much smaller than the large oblong acute 

 entire lateral, petals small falcate, side lobes of lip narrow linear much 

 shorter and narrower than the linear-oblong obtuse midlobe, spur filiform 

 longer than the ovary. H. latifolia, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid 323. 



MALAY PENINSULA (Ic. Finlaysonin Herb. Kew}. 



Leaves 5-6 by 2-2 in., membranous, almost petioled, many-nerved. Scape 

 12 in. ; bracts f in., linear-lanceolate, membranous ; ovary 1 in. ; flowers white, spur 

 green ; dorsal sepal broadly ovate, acuminate, reflexed, lateral f in. long, subfalcate, 

 5-7-nerved ; petals much smaller, acuminate; lip 1 in., rather longer than the 

 sepals, midlobe 3-nerved;' tube of anther-cells long, slender; stigmatic processes 

 elongate. A noble species. Lindley gives " Ceylon, Macrae " as its origin, but as a 

 fine drawing by Finlayson (who collected only in the borders of Siam) is in Herb. 

 Kew, and Thwaites never saw the plant in Ceylon, this is, no doubt, one of several 

 plants in Herb. Lindley wrongly attributed to Ceylon. It is evidently nearly allied to 

 H. platyphylla. 



27. H. suaveolens, Dalz. in Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. (1850) 263; leaves 

 subradical linear or linear-oblong acuminate, scape slender, spike few-fld., 

 flowers secund, bracts longer than the ovary narrowly cymbiform acumi- 

 nate, sepals subequal, petals as long but broader, lip cuneately flabellate, 

 side lobes broad, midlobe as long narrow, spur as long as the curved beaked 

 ovary, tip subclavate. Dalz. So Gils. Bomb. Fl. 268 (excl. syn.}. 



The CONCAN ; between Vignorla and Malwan, rare, Dalzell. 



Leaves 4-6 by | | in., rather thick. Scape 6-12 in., often flexuous ; sheaths 

 1-3 in. ; bracts f in. long, finely acuminate, herbaceous ; flowers 3-6, ^ in. broad, 

 white, jasmine-scented ; dorsal sepal orbicular-ovate, obtuse, lateral subfalcate, 

 ovate-oblong, acute ; petals triangular -ovate, subacute ; lip as long as the lateral 

 sepals, as broad as long, side lobes toothed or entire ; anther narrow, erect, apiculate, 

 cells contiguous narrow, tubes 0; pollinia clavate, as long as their stout caudicles; 



