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7. HABENARIA FURCIFERA, Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orch, 319. 
Whole plant 10 to 18 inches high. Stem sheathing near the base, the leaves 
crowded below the middle, the upper part bracteate. Leaves narrowly elliptic, acute, 
slightly narrowed to the sheathing base; length 2:5 to 4'5 in., breadth :9 to 1:35 in.; 
bracts lanceolate, acuminate, diminishing upward, 1:2 to "8 in. long. Raceme 5 to 7 in. 
long, many- but laxly-flowered. Flowers “5 in. in diam. (from base to apex); floral bract 
linear-lanceolate, acuminate, scarcely so long as the shortly-stalked ovary. Sepals 
unequal; the dorsal concave, ovate-oblong, obtuse; the lateral pair rather shorter, broadly 
lanceolate, somewhat falcate, acute or acuminate, spreading. Petals as long as the 
dorsal sepal, oblong, slightly retuse, forming with the dorsal sepal a hood over the 
column. Zip longer than the sepals, divided to the base into three segments; the lateral 
segments filiform, curved, diverging, longer than the stouter blunt middle one; spur 
longer than the ovary, very slender, laterally compressed, curved towards the apex. 
Anther-cells touching, their tubes rather short, diverging; pollinia falcately ovoid, 
almost as long as their slender slightly-curved caudicles; glands narrowly oblong ; 
staminodes rather large, broadly oblong, situated at the side below the anther-cells. 
Stigmas two elliptic, blunt, one at each side of the entrance to the spur, the infertile 
stigma forming a thickened rim at the upper part of that orifice.  Capsu;e fusiform, 
turgid, decurved, with thick ribs and a short beak. Hook. fil, Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 149; 
Kriintzlin in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XVI, 161. М. hamigera, Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. 
Hist. IV, 380, t. 20. Л. tenuicornis, Wall. MSS. 
Sikkim, below Mim, at an elevation of about 3,000 feet; in flower during July 
and August; Pantling No. 335. Westward to Gharwal. Also in Bhotan, Assam, Eastern 
Bengal and Orissa. 
` The colour of the flower is green. 
Prate 410.—Habenaria furcifera, Lindl. А plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 bract, ovary and flower, 
2 column showing the stigmas (ғ), glands of pollinia (p g), rostellum (r), callus overhanging the entrance 
to the spur (c), 3 lip, 4 the petals, 5 section of the spur near the lip, 6 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
8. HABENARIA MALLEIFERA, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 143. 
Whole plant 15 to 24 in. high. Stem sheathed in its lower fourth; the second 
fourth leaf-bearing ; the upper part bracteate, triquetrous, the angles fimbriate. Leaves 
narrowly elliptic, acute or sub-acute, the base narrowed to the wide short sheath; 
‘bracts lanceolate, acuminate, diminishing in size upwards, 2:5 to 1°25 in. long. Spike 
4 to 10 in. long, lax, tristichous, its rachis ribbed and with flattened laciniate hair like 
processes on the edges. Flowers about “6 in. in diam.; floral bract broadly lanceolate, 
shortly acuminate, equalling or exceeding in length the sessile beaked ovary, ciliolate; 
ovary ciliolate on the ridges; its beak long, slender. Sepals unequal; the dorsal 
orbicular, hooded, incumbent on the column; the lateral pair lurger, gibbously triangular, 
oblong, blunt, reflexed. Petals much smaller, triangular, sub-acute. Lip longer than the 
sepals, divided to the base into three filiform segments, the middle one usually the longest 
and the most flexuose. Spur about half аз long as the ovary, bent from the middle, 
its apex globose or clavate. Column very short. Anther recumbent, with very long 
spreading tubes, the staminodes adnate to its sides; pollinia sub-elliptic, grooved, the 
Axx. Вот. Bor. Gasp., Carcurra, Vou. VIII. 
