PL. CCCXVIII. 
HABENARIA MILITARIS rcus. F. 
THE MILITARY HABENARIA. 
HABENARIA. Sepala subaequalia, libera v. ima basi cohaerentia, erecto-conniventia v. saepius lateralia 
v. omnia patentia. Petala sepalis saepius minora, sed polymorpha, interdum profunde biloba, Labellum cum columna 
continuum saepeque brevissime connatum, patens v. pendulum, ima basi breviter v. longe calcaratum, lamina patente 
v. pendula, angusta v. lata, indivisa v. 3-5-fida, lobis lateralibus interdum pectinato-ciliatis v. fimbriatis. Columna 
brevissima, apoda, rostello inter loculos antherae saepius dente v. lobo brevi erecto aucto, stigma bilobum v. stigmata 
saepius 2 adnata v. in processus breves nunc brevissimos interdum valde elongatos laeves v. papillosos producta ; 
clinandrium erectum, antherae loculos non excedens, interdum iis brevius. Antherae connectivum a clinandrio non 
distinctum, loculis elevatis interdum latis adnatis, parallelis v. divergentibus, apicibus (inferis) nunc brevissimis adnatis, 
nunc elongatis horizontaliter liberis v. porrectis; pollinia in quoque loculo grosse v. tenuiter granulosa, caudiculis 
brevibus v. valde elongatis, anthera dehiscente glandulis nudis affixis. Capsula ovoidea v. oblonga, erecta v. incurva, 
erostris v. in rostrum producta. 
Herbae terrestres, habitu Orchidis, tuberibus indivisis v. rarius digitatim lobatis, v. fibrae radicales carnosae 
parum incrassatae. Flores parvi v. magni, in spica sessiles v. in racemo breviter pedicellati bracteis variis. 
Species notae fere 400, per regiones temperatas calidioresque utriusque orbis latissime dispersae. 
Habenaria Wittp. Sp. Pl., IV (1805), p. 44. — BentH. & Hook. F. Gen. Plant., III, p. 624. 
Habenaria militaris. Spithamea et altior : foliis linearibus acutis dimidium pollicem latis; racemo plurifloro ; 
bracteis inferioribus ovaria pedicellata aequantibus oblongo-ligulatis acuminatis ; sepalo dorsali naviculari cum tepalis 
lineari-ligulatis galeatis ; sepalis lateralibus oblongis acutis reflexis ; labello trifido, laciniis lateralibus oblongo-trapezoideis 
divaricatis, lacinia antica brevi unguiculata porrecta oblonga bifida laciniis triangulis, calcari filiformi compresso acuto 
ovario pedicellato longiori; rostelli lacinia mediana triangula corniformi, stigmatis cruribus porrectis. 
Habenaria militaris Rous. F. in Gard. Chron., 1886, pt. 2, p. 518. — Orchidophile, 1887, p. 48, cum ic, — 
Warn. & WILL. Orchid Album, VI, t. 281. — Revue Hort., 1888, p. 396, cum ic. 
H. pusilla Rows. F, Otia Bot. Hamb. (1878), p. 33- 
his beautiful species was originally described by RetcHenBAcu in 1878 
ie BAN) under the name of Habenaria pusilla, from a dried specimen collected in 
29 the mountains of Phu-Quoc, in Cambodia, by M. Goperroy Leseur. 
Very little appears to have been known about it at that time, for there is no 
mention of its brilliant colours in the original description, and nothing further 
appears to have been known until 1886, when M. Reenier, of Fontenay-sous-bois, 
Seine, sent to REICHENBACH a living plant in flower, which he pronounced to be 
identical, though, no longer considering the name pusilla appropriate to the 
species, he re-named it H. militaris, in allusion to the colour of its lip, which 
is of a brilliant scarlet, like a soldier’s jacket. The plants were obtained by 
M. Reenier, in Cochin China, probably in the mountainous region of Tay-Ninh. 
M. Anpr&, however, in the Revue Horticole, states that M. Recnigr discovered 
the plant in the Philippines, though it seems improbable that it can grow in 
two such widely different localities, and as the former habitat has been con- 
firmed, I fear the latter has originated through some accidental mistake. 
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