Hahenaria.] cxLviir. oeohide*. (J.D.Hooker.) 163 



Stem with spike 20 in. Leaves 3-5 in., membranous, upper smaller. SpiJke 

 8 in., very slender ; bracts J in., ovate-laneeolate ; flowers ^ in. diam. ; sepals and 

 petals membranous, l-nerved, lateral sepals deflexed ; long segments of lip 1 in. ; 

 spur sub 2-lobed, with a very short contracted neck ; ovary small, with a thick 

 dorsal ridge and terminal beak, cells parallel (tubes short upcurved ?) ; pollen grains 

 few, large, glands not seen ; stigmatie processes clavate ; rostellum erect between 

 the cells. — Closely allied to ff. aristata, though with so different a spur. 



t+t Leaves few radical, or solitary and cauline. 



68. K. lacertifera, Senth. Fl. SongTc. 362 ; stem or scape stout or 

 slender with few or many erect sheaths, leaves usually radical ovate or 

 oblong, spike elongate few- or many-fld., bracts narrow longer than the 

 erect very small flowers, lateral sepals linear-oblong obtuse, lip equalling 

 or longer than the sepals trifld tripartite or obtusely 3-toothed, lobes or 

 segments short subequal or the lateral long, spur minute ovoid or globose. 

 Coeloglossum lacertiterum & acuminatum, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 302. 

 Peristylus ohloranthus, Lindl. in Kew Joum. Bat. vii. (1855) 87. Gymna- 

 denia )/ tenuiflora, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7056. GhEeradoplectron Spirantbes, 

 SchoMer in PI. Meyen. 436, 1. 13 0. 



Khasia, Na&a and Munitiporb Hiils, alt. 2-4500 ft., Tenasseeim, Tavoy 

 and Pbnaitq-, Wallich. — Distbib. Hong Kong. 



Stem 6-10 in. ; sheaths J-1 in., lanceolate. Leaves few, 1-2 in., spreading, 

 acute or obtuse. Spike 3-10 in., slender, lax- or dense-fld. ; lowenbraets often f in. ; 

 ovary -l—i in., slender, erect, not beaked; sepals ^J In., 1-nerved, dorsal ovate- 

 oblongs obtuse ; petals variablej rather thick ; lip very variable in length, and in 

 length of lobes or segments, limb with a short spur over the short broad claw ; 

 anther minute, cells nearly parallel, tubas ; pollinia ovoid, grains large, glands 

 obscure; stigmatie processes small; rostellum a plicate-membrane stretched across 

 the base of the anther but not ? concealing the glands. Capsule f in., sessile, 

 oblong, obtuse. — Both this and the following var. are found in Penang. Lindley 

 errs in giving " Nepal, Wallich" as a habitat. I suspect that Lindley's Qlossula 

 tentaculata (Bot. Reg. t. 862), of Hong Kong, is only a form of this with elongate 

 filiform side lobes of the lip. 



Var. rolusta; very stout, 12-18 in., leaves 3-5 by |-1 in., spike very long 

 many-fld., lateral segments of lip slender exserted much longer than the middle 

 one. — Penang, Wallich, Maingay {Kew Distrib. 1662, Spiranthes), Curtis. 



99. 21. graclllima, Hooh f. ; stem long filiform, leaves subradical 

 narrowly linear, spike elongate, flowers few minute distant, bracts shorter 

 than the curved ovaries, lateral sepals linear-oblong, petals broader ovate 

 obtuse fleshy, lip very short fleshy trifld lobes obtuse, spur very short 

 inflated 2-lobed. Cceloglossum Mannii, Beichb. f. in Linmcsa xli. 54 



^ Khasia HiilS, alt. 4-5000 ft., on grassy hills, common. Munnipobe, Clarke. 

 Stem 6-16 in., with a few subulate sheaths. Leaves 1-3 by i~^ in., alternate, 

 acuminate. Spite 2-6 in. ; flowers i in. apart ; bracts i in.; ovary J in. ; sepals 

 ■Jj in., 1 -nerved; lip shorter than the sepals, claw as broad as and hardly shorter 

 than the blade, midlobe rather the longest ; pollinia most minute, broadly pyriform, 

 subsessile on one large flat ovate (2-fid ?) gland, grains large. 



Sect. VI. PHyLLOSXACHYA. (See p. 132.) 



100. K. galeandra, Benth. Fl. Mon^lc. 263; leaves oblong obtuse 

 or subacute base contracted, bracts ovate, flowers | in. diam., lip broadly 

 cuneiformly obovate or obcordate, spur a short conical sac.- Platanthera 

 obcordata, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7050 ; Gen. Sf Sp. Orchid. 290. P. gale- 



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