Hahenaria\ in. orchide.e. 15 



two inner an erect helmet. Lip trifid, segments fleshy, linear, the median 

 slightly the longest. In sparsely grassed pastures at Pedra Songue and 

 around Catete. Beginning of Dec. 185G. No. 684. 



12. H. psiloceras Welw. ex Echb. f. in Flora 1867, p. 99 ; 

 Kranzl., I.e., p. 165; Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 84. 



Puxoo Andongo. — A terrestrial herb 2 to 3 ft. long, roots fascicled, 

 thick fleshy, hairy. Stem straight, cylindrical, covered all over by the 

 leaf -sheaths. Leaves ovate-lanceolate with a cordate amplexicaul base, 

 rather fleshy-coriaceous, shining on each surface, pale beneath, spread- 

 ing, nerved, acutely carinate. Flowers entirely white, except for the 

 greenish tip of the spur. Bracts foliaceous, greenish. Two outer 

 perianth-segments, reflexed, spreading, the posterior larger erect, form- 

 ing with the two inner a helmet. Lip reflexed. trifid, spur very long, 

 pendulous, cylindrico-compressed, with a flattened dilated tip. Very 

 rare in the shady crannies of the more lofty rocks of Pedro de Cazella. 

 Two specimens in fl. middle of Jan. IS;')?. No. 680. 



13. H. hircina Echb. f.. I.e., p. 100; Kranzl., I.e., p. 166; 

 Durand k Schinz, I.e., p. 78. 



HuiLLA. — Tuber as large as a small hen's-egg and smelling strongly 

 like a goat ; stem solid whitish-green ; leaves membranous, herbaceous- 

 green, acutely keeled, gradually passing into the bracts. Perianth 

 including spur a pale yellowish-green, lip hanging, yellowish-green. 

 Sporadic in sandy thickets along with various Daphnoidese and species 

 of Gladiolus ■ .3800 to 5500 ft. Two specimens in fl. Jan. 1860. No. 736. 



14. H. foUosa Echb. f., I.e. 

 Var. epipactidea Eendle. 



//. ejjijMctidea Echb. f.. I.e. ; Kranzl., I.e., p. 237 ; Durand tt 

 Schinz, I.e., p. 77. 



Distinguished from the South African type {II. j^olyphylla 

 Kranzl, I.e., p. 214) by its smaller size, laxer habit, less blunt leaves 

 and the somewhat smaller bracts of the lax spike ; the floral 

 structure is identical except that the lateral petals are slightly 

 narrower, having a more oblong form than in the type. 



HuiLLA.— Herb with habit almost of Epipuctis, 1 to \h ft. long, erect, 

 with two tubers ; tubers elongated ovate-cylindrical, smelling like a 

 goat. Stem acutely angled, leaves glaucous-green, herbaceous, ovate- 

 lanceolate, sharply keeled, with raised nerves and rather wavy margin, 

 erect-spreading. Ovary shortly stalked, deeply furrowed, sharply angled, 

 green ; bract green much shorter. Three outer perianth-segments 

 whitish-green, lateral obliquely lanceolate, posterior concave-oblong, 

 inner broadly ovate, white, somewhat larger and longer than the outer, 

 oblique. Lip white, middle lobe produced, broadly linear, two lateral 

 short ; spur long, club-shaped, subobtuse, white at the base becoming 

 from the middle upwards pale greenish. Gynostemium yellowish- 

 green. In sandy-clayev marshes near the river Monino but sporadic. 

 In fl. Feb. 1860. No. 735. 



Kranzlin proposed the name H. polypliylla on the ground that 

 i7./oZio.saRchb. f. (nomen in Flora 1867, p. 100) was antedated by the 

 Indian species //. folinm A. Rich. If however we regard Richard's 

 plant as a variety of H. (h';/ifa(a Lindl. (see Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. p. 135), 

 Reichenbach's name must be retained. In spite of the striking similarity 

 between the two Reichenbachian species, Kriinzlin separates them 

 widely. In his arrangement //. epipactidea comes in section 22 



