1897.] G. King & R. Pantling— New Indo- Malayan Orchids. 603 



Lip slightly exceeding the sepals in length, lanceolate, the base with r ^ a 

 slender claw, the apex blunt ; the edges entire, decurved ; the lower 

 surface with a strong central keel from base to apex ; spur clavate, 

 incurved, slightly exceeding the ovary in length. 



Upper Burma ; at Saga ; in the Southern Shan States ; Collectors 

 of Botanic Garden, Calcutta. 



In habit this somewhat resembles H*. commilinifolia. Wall., but 

 the structure of the flowers is wholly different. This belongs to Sir 

 Joseph Hooker's section Hologlossa. It is known only from dried 

 specimens, hence no attempt is made to describe the column and the 

 organs situated on it. 



Habenaria Hawkesiana, n. spec. Height of entire plant about 

 nine inches ; tubers small, ellipsoid. Leaves whorled at the base of the 

 stem, two or three, ovate-elliptic or elliptic, acute, slightly narrowed 

 to the short Avide sheath ; upper part of the stem bearing 3 to 5 lax lanceo- 

 late scarious nearly equal bracts about *75 to 1 in. long. Raceme 2- to 4- 

 flo wered. Flowers large, white, rather, distant, J '5 in. wide at the mouth ; 

 floral bract linear, acuminate, as long as the sessile shortly-beaked 

 ovary. Sepals unequal; the dorsal ovate, acuminate ; the lateral pair 

 rather longer. Petals lanceolate, slightly falcate, membranous and 

 many-nerved like the sepals. Lip a little shorter than the lateral sepals, 

 entire, triangular, blunt, puberulous ; spur two or three times longer 

 than the ovary, incurved. Anther-cells wide apart, their tubes rather 

 long ; pollinia with caudicles nearly twice as long as themselves, trique- 

 trous in the upper half, curved, the glands small. Stigmas confluent, 

 occupying the whole width of the column above the very wide mouth 

 of the spur. 



Upper Burma ; Prazer. 



Collected only once by Mr. Prazer who secured only a few specimens. 

 He describes the flowers as white, with the exception of the lip which is 

 saffron-yellow. The species has been named in honour of Colonel H. P. 

 Hawkes, C. B., late Commissary General in Burma, an ardent horticul- 

 turalist, and an excellent authority on Indian and particularly on 

 Burmese, artistic metal work. It appears to be allied to H. plantaginea 

 Lindl., but this has an entire lip, while the lip of that and of the 

 section (Platijglossa) to which it belongs is characterised by being 

 3-lobed. 



Habenaria neglecta, n. spec. Entire plant 12 to 15 inches high. 

 Stem clothed in its lower part by several unequal lax scarious sheaths. 

 Leaves 3 to 6, scattered along the stem, unequal in size, those in the 

 middle being the largest, narrowly oblong, acute, not narrowed to the 

 sheathing base, length 125 to 3 in., breadth '25 to "6 in. ; stem above 



