1030 BENGAL PLANTS. {Habenaria. 
base of oe entire, 3-lobed or 3-partite, its base spurred. 
Column short, usually broad; stigmas 2, distant, or conjoined 
across the face. She. cells adnate to the front of the column, 
discrete, rarely touching, parallel or divergent below, their bases 
psn prolonged into tubes containing the caudicles ; staminodes 
ose, one on the outer side of each anther-cell; pollinia 2, 
or pyriform, usually grooved, sometimes 2-partite ; 
caudicles long or short or obsolete; glands exposed, flat and 
discoid or elliptic and globular, or elongate with truncate ends. 
*Flowers green, white or yellow, small or large, in the axils of bracts in 
terminal racemes ; lip 3-partite or 3-lobed :—[p. 1032] 
etals 2-partite ; lip 3-partite, with filiform segments ; lateral sepals 
raised or deflexed; spur as long as the ovary; racemes many- 
ered; stem leafy upwards; flowers greenish :— 
riches with filiform tips nearly or quite as long as their blades ; 
bracts membranous, not longer than the ovary; spur filiform 
stenopetala. 
Sepals acute but not filiform at their ee cate subfoliaceous, as 
long as aN flowers or longer ; spur subcla ..digitat 
Petals entire 
vale yy lip petaloid, much wider than the narrow, linear mid- 
lobe ; racemes lax, few-flowered ; flow hite 
petals small; stem tall, leafy upwards; leaves ovate-oblong ; 
flowers large Susanne. 
Lip much exceeding the sepals ; stem short :— 
Stem leafy upwards; side- lobes of lip longer than the mid-lobe:— 
uter margin crenate; leaves short, sheathing, —— , 
flowers large 
Spur slender, twice as long as the ovary; petals as see as 
the dorsal sepal; side-lobes of lip semicircular, entire; 
leaves long, linear; flowers medium longifolia. 
Stem scapigerous ; scape slender ; 3 flowers medium ; : tee 
. obes of li obe : 
PeVe ree eee eee 
pur thickened below the imiddle, several times as nae as 
e still ; sepals broad, obtuse; petals oblong-lanceolate; 
acum longicalearata. 
ea. lane as long as the ovary ; “gals sp petals 
linear-lanceolate ntagined. 
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