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this species to [the memory of the late Rev. Dr. Masson, for many 

 years a Missionary in Burma, who wrote an excellent book on the 

 economic condition, agriculture and natural products of that country. 

 The colour of its flowers is unknown. As we have seen only dried 

 specimens we are unable to give accurate details of the pollinia and 

 their appendages, or of the staminodes. 



Habenakia Prazeri, n. spec. Height of the whole plant about 

 20 to 24 inches, the stem rather slender. Leaves clustered towards the 

 base of the stem, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 3 to 5 in. long and '75 

 to 1*15 in. broad; peduncle of the inflorescence with 10 to 14 equi- 

 distant linear bracts '75 to 1*5 in. long. Raceme about 7 in. long, 

 rather sparsely-flowered. Flowers '4 in. across; floral bract linear, 

 finely acuminate, thin in texture, as long as or longer than the shortly- 

 stalked obscurely beaked, ovary. Sepals unequal ; the dorsal broadly 

 ovate, blunt : the lateral pair slightly longer and narrower, acute. 

 Petals smaller than the dorsal sepal, ovate-lanceolate, acute, very 

 slightly falcate. Lip equalling the lateral sepals in length, its basal half 

 transversely elliptic, slightly concave; its apical half fleshy, linear; 

 the spur stout, half as long as the ovary, cylindric, incurved. Anther- 

 cells placed close together, parallel, their tubes up-turned. 



Upper Burma, Prazer. 



This is known only by a single dried specimen from an examin- 

 ation of which it lias been impossible to make out with certainty the 

 form of the pollinia and their glands, of the staminodes or stigmas. 

 No account of them is therefore ventured upon. As Upper Burma 

 gets better known, specimens of this will no doubt be forth-coming ; 

 and it is believed, that by the preceding description, this plant may be 

 identified. The species is clearly allied to H. latilahris, Hook, fil., and 

 to H. densa, Wall., but it differs considerably from both in lip, spur, 

 ovary, and in the clustered leaves. Like these species, it belongs to the 

 section Hologlossa. It agrees with nothing in the Kew Herbarium. 



Habenakia linearis, n. spec. Height of whole plant fifteen to 

 twenty-seven inches. Stem, slender, with several blunt tubular sheaths 

 near the base. Leaves scattered along the whole stem from nearly the 

 base, diminishing in size upward and passing into bracts towards the 

 raceme, linear, acuminate, 2 to 4 in. long and 2 to *4 in. wide ; the bracts 

 smaller and somewhat lanceolate. Raceme 1*5 to 2 in. long, 3- to 6- 

 flowered. Flowers white, about - 75 in. across at the mouth ; floral bract 

 linear, finely acuminate, ciliolate, longer than the very slender, long- 

 beaked sub-sessile ovary. Sepals sub-equal, lanceolate, the dorsal con- 

 duplicate ; the lateral pair falcate, spreading. Petals somewhat shorter 

 than the sepals, narrowly oblong, tapering slightly to the blunt apex. 



