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HABENARIA pracreatTa. 
Long-bracted Habenaria. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.—Nart. Orv. ORCHIDE. 
Gen. Cuar.—Cor. ringens. Labellum basi subtus calcaratum. Glandule 
pollinis nude distincte (loculis pedicellorum adnatis y. solutis distine- 
tis.) 
Habenaria bracteata; cornu abbreviato didymo, labello lineari retuso 
tridentato: lateralibus obtusis; medio obsoleto, bracteis flore duplo 
dentibus longioribus. 
Habenaria bracteata, Br. in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 5. p. 192. 
Orchis bracteata, WiLLD. Sp. Pl. v. iv. p. 84—Pursu, N. Am. Flora, v. ii: 
p- 587. 
Orchis bractealis, « Satiss. Parad. t. 110.” 
Root subpalmated, with several large fleshy simple fibres. Stem about a 
foot high, leafy, striated, and angular. Leaves ovato-lanceolate, rather 
obtuse, striated; the upper ones gradually smaller and narrower, and 
passing, as it were, into bracteas. 
Spike 4-5 inches long, with the flowers numerous, but rather distantly 
placed, and not half so long as the bractex, which are linear-lanceolate, 
green, and very leafy. Corolla with the 5 petals connivent, green: the 
three outer ones ovate, having the two lateral ones embracing and in- 
cluding the inner one. Two interior petals quite concealed by the outer 
ones, narrow, linear-oblong, green. Lip about as long again as the pe- 
tals, pendent, linear or linear-oblong, yellow, or brownish-green, mi- 
nutely dotted, slightly convex, cut at the extremity into two rather ob- 
tuse teeth, and having an intermediate very short and almost obsolete 
one: at the base beneath is a small obtuse, slightly incurved and some- 
what didymous inflated spur. Germen linear-oblong, green, sulcated, 
much twisted. Column very short. Stigma quadrangular, hollow, up- 
on the top of which is inserted the Anther, of two cells, their bases ta- 
pering and standing apart. Pollen-masses clavate, yellow, having the 
gland at the base of the pedicel naked. 
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