136 cxLTiii. ORCHiDBiE. (J. D. Hooksr.) \_Hahenaria. 



Ceylon ; in the Central Province, alt. 5000 ft., Gardner, Thwaites. 



Stem 2-3 ft., leafless below, slender. Leaves 2-3 in. Raceme 1 ft. ; flowers 

 Bubsessile, about i in. broad ; dorsal sepal orbicular, mueronate ; lip longer than the 

 sepals, side segments spreading ; spur as long as the hardly beaked ovary, mouth with 

 a short ligule ; anther broad, cells parallel, tubes long upourved, glands of pollinia 

 small; stigmatie processes clavate, incurved round the mouth of the spur; ros. 

 tellum short, triangular. — Nearly allied to H. digitata, but the flowers are smaller 

 and the base of the leaves amplexicaul. 



11. K. corymbosa, Parish & Reichb. f. in Trams. Linn. Soc. xxx. 

 141 ; very stout, leaves lanceolate, raceme dense-fld., bracts longer than 

 the long-pedicelled beaked ovary, sepals broad acute, petals bipartite, seg- 

 ments slender lower subulate balf the length of the upper, lip 3-partite, 

 segments subulate subequal or lateral smaller. 



Tenassebim ; at Moulmein, Parish. 



Stem 2-3 ft., leafy upwards, but naked below, and with only sheaths for the 

 upper half. Leaves 3-6 in., base contracted. Raceme 3-4 in., very dense-fld. ; 

 pedicels filiform ; bracts |—1 in., lanceolate; flowers ^ in. diam. ; sepals 3-nervedj 

 lip not longer than the sepals, spur equalling the ovary, tip clavate ; anther-cells 

 divaricate below, tubes as long as the cells ; pollinia narrow, glands minute ; stig- 

 matie processes elongate, clavate ; rostellum triangular, acute. 



12. K. dichopetala, Thwaites Enum. 309 ; leaves crowded about 

 the middle of the stem ovate or ovate-lanceolate, lateral sepals ovate acute, 

 dorsal orbicular, petals bipartite, segments divaricate elongate lowest 

 narrowest and longest, lip tripartite, segments, equal elongate setaceous, 

 spur as long as the ovary slender pendulous. 



Cetioit ; Bintenne district, Thwaites {in Herl. Lindl.). 



Stem 1-lJ ft. Leaves dark green with a red midrib, petioled. Raceme lax-fld. ; 

 bracts lanceolate ; flowers greenish about -i in. diam. — The above description is from 

 " Thwaites' Enum." There are two specimens from Thwaites in Lindley's Herba- 

 rium which difier somewhat from that description, the leaves are linear-oblong erect 

 and sheath the stem all the way up, the bracts i-|, ovary with pedicel f-l in., 

 segments of petals subequal on the lower rather than longest, mid segment >of lip 

 the shortest, anther-cells distant, stigmatie processes globose ; rostellum short, 



■f-f Stem leafy at or near the base only. 



13. K. grandiflora, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7032; leaf solitary 

 radical orbicular- or ovate-cordate, flowers few long-pedicelled, petals 

 bipartite upper segment obliquely ovate acumiftate lower longer filiform, 

 lip tripartite lateral segments filiform terminal linear or elongate lanceolate, 

 spur longer than the ovary. Dalz. <^ Oibs. Bomb. H. 267. H. rotundi- 

 folia, Lindl. Ge,n. Sf Sp. Orchid. 306. Orchis grandiflora, Serb. Heme. 



The CoNOAN; on the Ghats at Belgaum, Mahabuleshwar, &c., Heyne, &c. 

 , Xeq/'l-2 in. Sca'^e 3-6 in., naked or with 1-2 sheaths, 2- or more-fld. ; bracts 

 sheathing, shorter than the pedicel, which with ovary is 1—1^ in. ; flowers J—l in. 

 broad, white ; sepals broad ; petals rather smaller ; margins of mid-segment of lip 

 recurved, spur obtuse or thickened at the tip, mouth with a caruncled callus • 

 anther 3-cuspidate, cells parallel, tubes rather short broad spreading, glands of polli- 

 nia large orbicular; stigmatie processes large, clavate; rostellum elongate, erect. 



14. H._ rariflora, A. Rich, in Ann. 8c. Nat. Ser. 2, xv. 70, t. 2 • 

 leaves radical or subradical liuear-oblong or lanceolate acute, flowers tew 

 long-pedicelled, upper segment of petals ovate acuminate lower usually 

 much longer filiform, lip tripartite, lateral segments filiform, median 



