ffabenaria.] CXLViir. ORCHIDE/E. (J. D. Hooker.) 157 



minute, cells parallel, tubes ; pollinia short, grains large, caudicle and gland 

 obscure ; stigmatic processes clavute ; rostellum erect, truncate, toothed, plicate, con- 

 cealing the glands of the pollinia. Habit of H. viridifloru. In the Khasia specimens 

 the midlobe of the lip is much longer than in the Peninsular. I have had diffi- 

 culty in choosing a specific name, for Bentham, in adopting stenostachya, overlooked 

 the older published one of tennis. That of peristyloid.es may be objected to from the 

 plant being sectionally a Periztylus, though Wight did not recognize it as such, and 

 it is preoccupied by A. Richard for an Abyssinian species. 



80. K. cubit alls, Br. Prodr. 312 ; tall, slender, leaves scattered or sub- 

 radical, linear oblong or lanceolate acute, spike long narrow, flowers 

 minute, bracts as long as the curved ovary or snorter, sepals linear-oblong 

 concave keeled, petals larger ovate-oblong, lip not exceeding the sepals 

 3-fid, side lobes spreading and recurved, midlobe shorter broad obtuse, 

 spur straight as long as the sepals nearly cylindric. Platanthera 

 cubitalis, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 292; Thivaites Enum. 310. Orchis 

 cubitalis, Linn. Fl. Zeyl. 320. 



The KFASIA. Mrs., TENASSEKIM, Parish, &c. CEYLON; Hermann, at Pasdoon 

 Corle, Thwaites. 



Stem with the slender spike 1-3 ft. Leaves 2-6 in., sessile, flat, nerves obscure. 

 Spike 8-12 in. ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, lower i in.; ovary in., erect, 

 tip decurved ; sepals T \ in., obtuse, 1-nerved, nerve produced beneath the tip, 

 dorsal longest and broadest ; petals obliquely oblong, obtuse ; lip with a short 

 concave claw, lateral lobes shorter than or equalling the sepals ; anther minute, cells 

 parallel, tubes 0, pollinia short granular, caudicles and glands obscure ; stigmatic 

 processes clavate ; rostellum erect, truncate, toothed, plicate, concealing the glands 

 of the pollinia. Near H. stenostachya, but flowers much smaller. There are two 

 forms in Ceylon, one with leaves scattered along the stem, and another also found in 

 Tenasserim with radical leaves ; the latter is, 



Var. brevifolia; leaves very short 1-1 J in. radical linear-oblong. Coaloglossum 

 brevifolium, Lindl. Gen. fy Sp. Orchid. 302 (easel, hob. Nepal). Tavoy, Wallich. 

 Ceylon, Walker Sf Oardn. Wallich's specimen in Herb. Linn. Soc. are not numbered 

 by him, but are ticketed, " Tavoy, Dec. 16, 1827." The number 7041 which has 

 been put on the sheet by another hand, Wallich gave only to the Khasian plant, his 

 linifolia (H. khasiana, p. 151). To var. brevifolia he gave the mss. name of com- 

 melinifolitt (not micrantha, as Lindley states in his Herbarium). 



f"f* Leaves clustered round the middle of the stem (sometimes scattered 

 in H. Grardneri.) Slender species; spike long, lax-fld. 



81. K. tipulifera, Par. & Reichb.f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 139; 

 leaves 4-6 linear-lanceolate acuminate, bracts very slender equalling the 

 slender ovaries, lateral sepals linear obtuse, petals broader ovate-oblong 

 obtuse membranous, lateral segments of lip many times longer than the 

 sepals capillary, mid one short subulate, spur clavate as long as the 

 sepals. ? Peristylns gracilis, Blume Bijdr. 406. 



TENASSERTM ; at Moulmein, Parish. 



Stem 1-2 ft., with appressed sheaths below the leaves, and 1-2 lanceolate ones 

 above them. Leaves 5-8 by f-1 in., clustered about the middle of the stem, mem- 

 branous, sessile. Spike 610 in. ; flowers erect, small, distant ; bracts % in. 

 ovaries as long, straight; sepals i in. long, 1-uerved, dorsal ovate-oblong broad or 

 narrow, lateral erect ; lip divided close to the narrow concave claw ; anther minute, 

 cells parallel, tubes 0, pollinia clavate, caudicles very short, glands oblong; stigmatic 

 processes margining the claw of the lip ; rostellum broad, plicate, concealing the 



bases of the anther-cells and glands. Capsule i in., very slender, straight, erect. 



Very near H. aristata, differing in the long narrow leaves, and much longer very 

 slender ovary. 



