=i ie 2 Wiig 1 ys es i le a 
Stenoglottis. | ORCHIDE& (Rolfe). 117 
long, 
5-partite ; column short and broa Gard. Chron. 1894, xvi. 563, 
g. 72; Durand é Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. "68. s. jimbriata, 
N. E. Br. in Got. Chron. 1889, vi. 438, a not of Lind 
TERN Recion: Zululand; Eshowe, Mrs Saunders, 2! near Ungoya, 
1000- "2000 ft., Wood, 5650! and in MacOwan & “iba Herb, Norm. Austr.-Afr., 
1024 ! 
smaller than the sepals; lip linear-oblong, }—} in. 5-fid o 
d. 
XXIV. HABENARIA, Willd. 
Sepals unequal, free ; lateral more or less spreading or reflexed. 
Petals simple or deeply bilobed, usually narrower than the dorsal 
sepal and adpressed to it, forming a galea, or the posticous lobe so 
adpressed, and the anticous descending, and simulating a lobe of the 
lip. Lip continuous with the column, often shortly adnate to it, 
produced at the base into a short or much elongated spur ; limb 
cells parallel or divergin pex inferior, short and adnate or free, 
longate and horizontal or cending in slender channels on the 
r ; 
rostellum trilobed ; middle lobe subulate or tooth-like, situated 
between the anther-cells; side lobes much longer, and acting as 
carriers for the caudicles of the pollinia. Capsule ellipsoid or 
oblong, sometimes beaked 
Terrestrial herbs, with the habit of Orchis; tubers ovoid-globose or rarely 
1 esi flowers small or large, in lax or dense spikes s or racemes ; bracts mostly 
narr 
orkm Species over 500, widely diffused through tropical and subtropical 
regions. 
Petals simple : 
ogi e lip short, hed oo ad in. — A 
es radical, .. (1) arenaria. 
aie more or a ee 
Leaves not® namerows oni not gradually passing 
into the brac 
Leaves elong es .. (2) natalensis. 
Leaves broadly Besar Ne er .. (3) microrhynchos. 
spas — numerous, more or less imbricate 
ep y passing into the bracts 
Lisette 
spe oe lip Has doting li Se ae : 
ere about $ lin. Saal sos =) ... (5) Readei. 
Spur of lip cylindrical... ... «+ +++ (6) foliosa. 
