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Habenaiia. 



H. ciliaris (i?. /.V.V — This is a beautiful species known 

 popularly in America as the Yellow Fringed Orchis. The flowers 

 are a bright orange, in dense clusters, and have a beautifully 

 frmged lip: they are produced in August. Stems lift. to 2ft. 

 high. North America, 1796. (B. INI., t. 166S.) 



H. cinnabarina {RoIfA-— Flowers orange-red, small, disposed 

 in a dense cluster : scape erect, 6in. high. Leaves erect, linear, 

 6in. long. Madagascar, 1S93. 



H. conopsea (Bf?i//i.). — Fragrant Habenaria. Flowers reddish 

 or rarely white, small, very numerous, sweet-scented ; lip three- 

 lobed ; spike oblong or cylindrical. All summer. Stem ift. to 

 jft. high, with linear or narrow-lanceolate leaves. Tubers 

 palmate. Europe (Britain), &c. Syns. Gyinnadenia conopsea 

 and OrcJiis conopsea. 



H. decipiens {Wight). — Flowers i-J,in. long, with a pendent 

 spur 4in. to 510. long ; lip much longer than the green sepals, 

 cuneate, three-lobed ; pedicels long ; scapes erect, few-flowered. 

 September to November. Leaves radical. Plantain-like. \\'estern 

 Ghats of India, prior to 1S91. Cool-house. Svn. H. lojv^ecal- 

 carata. (B. M., t 722S.) 



H. Elwesil {Hook.). — Flowers greenish-yellow, 2in. long; petals 

 bifurcate from the base ; lip highly glabrous, the limb divided 

 into three filiform segments : raceme lax-flowered. Nilghiri 

 Hills, 1S96. More curious than beautiful. (B. AL, t. 747S.) 



H. foliosa {Rchb. /.). — Flowers purple, numerous, in an ovate- 

 oblong spike about Sin. long, produced in May; sepals erect, ovate, 

 obtuse ; petals similar but smaller and straighter ; lip pendent, 

 very large, three-lobed. Leaves unspotted, oblong ; lower ones 

 obtuse. (B. M., t. 5074; B. R., 1701.) 



H. gigantea {Don.). — A synonym of // Snsannce. 



H. Incisa (Spreng.). — Flowers rich purple, small, fragrant, thickly 

 set in oblong, terminal racemes, borne in June. Leaves, cauline 

 ones obtusely lanceolate, deep green. Introduced from North 

 America, 1826. 



H. longecalcarata {A. RicJi.).—^ synonym of // decipiens. 



H. macrantha (//«r/i.sY).— Sepals and petals dark brown ; 

 lip purplish-lilac, marked with darker streaks and freckles, 

 roundish; spike .six- to ten-flowered. Leaves sheathing, three- 

 nerved. Abyssinia, 1886. Stove. Syn. Gymnadenia macrantha. 



H. militaris (Rchb. /.).— A synonym of H. pnsilla. 



