134 oxLViii. ORCHiDE^. (J. D. Hooket.) [^Habenaria. 



** Petals 2-partite. 



t Stem leafy upwards. Eacemes many-fid. 



§ Sepals with filiform tips. 



4. K. stenopetala, Lindl. Gen. Sf 8p. Orchid. 319 (not 324) ; tall, 

 leaves oblong or ovate-lanoeolate base narrowed or broad and amplexioaul, 

 raceme dense-fld., bracts as long as the ovaries, segments of petals slender 

 equal or the lower shorter, segments of tripartite lip filiform, spur long 

 slender equalling the ovary. 



North West India; road to Kashmir, Boyle. Sikkim Himaiaya, alt. 3-6000 

 it., J. D. M. &.C. UppebAssam J the'S&ga.^tixWs, Griffith, Frain. Lowek Benoab; 

 at Mymensing, Olarhe. Oeissa ; at Singboom, Clarice. The Concan ; Stocks, &c. 



Stem 1-2 ft., stout. Leaves', 6-8 in., base contracted into a broad petiole or sessile. 

 JJaeeme short j 4-6 in. ; bracts membranous; flowers very variable in size, greenish; 

 sepals oblong-lanceolate, J-J in. lyng, membranous, 3-nerved, filiform tips as Jong 

 as the blade or shorter ; lower segment of the petals sometimes obsolete ; segments of 

 lip very variable, the lateral sometimes as long or longer than the middle one, at 

 others they are much shorter and subulate ; spur equalling the ovary ; anther-cells 

 narrow, parallel, tubes nearly as long as the cells ; caudicles of pollinia slender, 

 glands small ; stigmatic processes elongate, clavate ; rostellam large, triangular, 

 erect. Capsule i-^ in., linear-oblong.- — A very variable plant; the flowers'ofthe 

 Orissa and Bengal specimens are remarkably small ; of some Sikkim ones also very 

 small. 



5. K. macrostachya, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 307 ; leaves large 

 crowded above the middle of the robust stem, raceme lax-fid., bracts equal- 

 ling the ovary, segments of petals subequal filiform, segments of 3-partite 

 lip subequal filiform, spur shorter than the ovary. Thwaites Enum. 309. 



Tkatancoee ; on the Anamallay hills, \Z3ed(Zome (in Berft. Calcutt.). Oeylon, 

 Macrae, alt. 4000 ft., Thwaites. 



Stem 2 ft. Leaves 5-7 in., obovate or oblanceolate, acute, broadly petioled. 

 Baceme 6-8 in. ; bracts and ovary very narrow ; sepals f in. long ; petals and lip 

 spotted with red ; lip longer than the sepals, spur very slender, thickened down- 

 wards ; anther-tubes as long as the parallel cells, subereot, pollinia pyriform, glands 

 minute ; stigmatic processes long, slender, adnate to the mouth of the lip ; ros- 

 tellum smnll. — The spur is stoutest in the Travancore specimen. 



6. K. andamanica, Hook. f. Ic. Plant, ined. ; leaves crowded 

 towards the middle of the stout stem, raceme lax-fid-, bracts rather shorter 

 than the ovary, upper segment of petals very slender, lower broader divided 

 above the middle into 3 filiform laciniK, side lobes of lippalmately multifid, 

 midlobe linear 3-fid, spur shorter than the ovary. 



Andaman Islands ; Parish. 



Stem 12-18 in. Leaves 3-4 in.y ovate-lanceolate, acute. Raceme 6-8 in. ; 

 bracts lanceolate ; ovary IJ in., very slender; sepals \ in. long; lacinias of mid- 

 lobe of lip filiform ; anther-cells parallel, tubes rather shorttir than the cells ; "lands 

 of pollinia minute ; stigmatic processes subcyl'ndric, elongate ; rostellam erect. 



§§ Sepals without filiform tips. 



7. IS. dig-itata, Lindl. Oen. & Sp. Orchid. 307 ; leaves ovate or 

 ovate-oblong, raceme laxly many-fid., lateral sepals ovate acute, dorsal 

 puborbicular, petals bipartite, segments subequal or the upper broader lip 

 tripartite segments linear, spur equalling the ovary. Dalz. Sf Gihs. Bomb. 



