268 



7. H SUAVEOLENS, Dalz. loc. cit. Stem half a foot high, leafy 

 only at the base ; leaves lanceolate-acute, erect, folded, half the 

 length of the scape ; scape angled, with one bract in the middle, few- 

 flowered ; floral bracts foliaceous, ovate-lanceolate acute, sheath- 

 ing as lon i _> as the ovary ; upper sepal broad-lanceolate, rather acute ; 

 lateral sepals falcate, acute, deflexed in flowering ; petals and sepals 

 alike ; lip trifid ; middle segment linear-acute ; lateral broader and 

 shorter, obliquely truncated and denticulate at the apex ; spur 

 pendulous filiform, scarcely clavate, as long as the ovary. Between 

 Vingorla and Mai wan, rare. Jasmine-scented Habenaria. The 

 colour of the flowers, and the form of the lip, the same as in the 

 following, which is also a sweet-smelling species. Syn. H deci- 

 piens, Wight Ic. 927 (?). 



8. H LONGICALCARATA, A. Richard. 2 to 3 feet high ; radical 

 leaves numerous, oblong-elliptic, acute, upper leafless ; part of the 

 stem clothed with the sheaths of numerous depauperated leaves ; 

 flowers 1 to 2, large, long-peduncled; bracts convolute, oval-acumi- 

 nated, the length of the peduncle ; petals erect lanceolate ; lip tri- 

 fid ; middte segment lanceolate, narrow ; lateral ones broad, trun- 

 cate, crenate ; spur very long, 2 to 3 times longer than the ovary 

 and peduncle. Grassy pastures near Belgaum, abundant. Wight 

 Ic. 925. 



9. H HEYNEANA, Lind. Leaves narrow-oval acute; raceme 

 lax, secund, few-flowered ; bracts foliaceous, cucullate, somewhat 

 ventricose acuminated, longer than the flowers; lip 3-parted; seg- 

 ments about equal ; middle one narrow-oval ; lateral ones filiform 

 incurved ; spur pendulous, filiform, shorter than the ovary ; flowers 

 pale yellowish-green. Pastures in the Warree Country, and on 

 the Ghauts. Wight Ic. 923. 



10. H MARGIN ATA, Colebrooke in Hook. Exot. PI. t. 136. 

 Radical leaves cordate-oblong, with a white margin ; raceme dense, 

 many-flowered; lip tripartite; lateral divisions linear acuminate ; 

 middle lanceolate, obtuse, shorter; flowers of a very deep-yellow. 

 In Caranjah; on the Ghauts around Jooneer. 



11. H DIPHYLLA, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, 262. Six 

 inches high ; leaves 2, radical, fleshy orbicular, cordate at the base, 

 obscurely 7-nerved, pressing flat on the ground ; flowers few, 

 distant, greenish-white ; cauline-bracts subulate ; floral ones half 

 the length of the ovary; upper sepal broad-ovate, 3-nerved ; lateral 

 ovate-acute, spreading; petals linear falcate acute; lip 3-divided, 

 all the segments filiform ; lateral longer than the middle one, as- 

 cending, reflexed, spirally twisted at the apex ; spur pendulous, 

 filiform, a little shorter than the ovary. Southern Concan. Syn. 

 H jerdoniana, Wight Ic. 1715; H crassifolia, Richard (?). 



1*2. H RARIFLORA, A. Richard. Leaves oblong lanceolate- 



