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the leaves slender, bearing 2 or 3 distant linear acuminate bracts. 

 Spike 2 or 3 in. long, sparsely-flowered. Flowers '25 in. across ; floral 

 bract lanceolate, acuminate, entire, slightly longer than the sessile 

 beakless ovary. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, blunt, keeled. Petals as long 

 as the sepals but narrower, blunt. Lip fleshy, not longer than the 

 sepals, adnate to the base of the column by the narrow claw, divided 

 down to the claw into 3 very narrow lobes ; the side-lobes longer and 

 narrower than the middle one, linear, sub-acute, very slightly curved 

 and spreading almost horizontally ; the middle-lobe narrowly oblong, 

 blunt, very fleshy ; spur longer than the sepals and nearly as long as 

 the ovary, almost straight and very slightly clavate. Peristylus, No. 13 

 Herb. Ind. Or. Hook. fil. and Thomson. 



" Malabar and the Concan. Stocks, Law and others " in Herb. Ind. 

 Or. Hook. fil. and Thomson. 



This differs from typical Habenaria aristata, Hook. fil. (figured by 

 Wight under the name Peristylus exilis, Wight, 1c. No. 1698) in having 

 the lateral lobes of the lip much shorter, the sepals and petals narrower 

 and not all ovate, the spur longer and very slightly inflated towards the 

 apex, and the floral bract longer than the ovary. 



Habenaria Maingati, n. spec. Entire plant 4 to 6 in. high ; roots 

 thickly fibrous, some of them expanding into small oblong tubers. 

 Stem bearing a short sheath near the base. Leaves 3 or 4, sessile, crowd- 

 ed near the base of the stem, oblong- lanceolate, acute, 5 to 175 in. 

 long and '15 to "4 in. broad ; Peduncle of spike bearing 4 or 5 

 distant lanceolate finely acuminate bracts. Spike 1 to 1*5 in. long, 

 6- to 12-flowered, rather lax. Flowers "15 in. across ; floral bract 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute, as long as the slender sessile ovary. Sepals 

 subequal, oblong-lanceolate, subacute, the petals slightly narrower. Lip 

 as long as the petals, adherent by a short claw to the base of the column, 

 3-lobed ; the lateral lobes broadly oblong, blunt, diverging, broader 

 than the blunt mid-lobe, the margins entire ; upper surface with a single 

 small triangular tooth at the bases of the side-lobes ; spur much shorter 

 than the sepals, obovoid-globose. 



Singapore; Main gay, Herb, prop 3354 ( Kew distrib. No. 1663). 



This species differs from 77". tentaculata, Reichb. fil. (H. lacertifera, 

 Benth.), to which it has been referred , in having much narrower and more 

 numerous leaves, flowers twice as large, and a lip with broader lobes. 



Note. 



We take this opportunity of giving a description, drawn up from a 

 living specimen, of Dendrobium parciflorum, Reichb. fil., a species 

 originally published in 1845, by Griffith (under the name of Aporum 



