267 



bracts ; flowering-spike oblong, cernuous, many-flowered ; flowers 

 rose-coloured or purple. 



16. HABENARIA, Willd. 



1. H RoTDNBiFOLiA, Lind. Gen. and Sp. Orch. p 306. — 

 About 8 inches high ; leaf solitary, radical, cordate, subi'otund ; 

 raceme 3 to 5-flowered; petals bifid ; anterior segment subulate; 

 lip 3-partite; divisions subequal, middle one broader; flowers 

 white ; appear in July and August. Between Ram Ghaut and 

 Belgaum ; Sewnere Fort. 



2. DiGiTATA, Lind. loc. cit. p 307. — Leaves ovate oblong- 

 acute, undulate; raceme long, many-flowered; flowers greenish- 

 white ; petals bipartite, divisions linear ; lip 3-partite, divisions also 

 linear. Island of Caranjah ; flowers in July. Syn. H trinervia, 

 Wight Ic. 1701. 



3. FoLioBA, A. Richard on the authority of Wight (Ic. 1700).— 

 One foot high, leafy; leaves lanceolate-acute, 5 inches long; bracts 

 a little shorter than the ovary; upper sepal ovate-obtuse; lateral 

 oblong; petals bipartite; posterior divisions linear, spirally twisted; 

 anterior setaceous ; shorter lip tripartite ; divisions filiform, middle 

 one broader and longer.; spur slender clavate, shorter than the 

 ovary ; flowers greenish-white, appear in August. Salsette. Syn. 

 H laciniata, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot ii, 1261. AlHed to H lanci- 

 folia. Rich. 



4. H MoDESTA, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, p 262. — Stem 

 leafy at the base, naked above ; leaves (?) ; bracts half the length 

 of the ovary ; lip trifid ; lateral divisions linear-lanceolate, free, 

 spreading; middle one ovate-obtuse, shorter, introrse, cohering with 

 the apices of the petals and with the upper sepal, and concealing 

 the column ; spur fihform, scarcely clavate, a little longer than the 

 ovary ; flowers greenish-white, appear in August, Salsette. 



5. H Caranjensis, Dalz. loc. cit. — Lower leaves somewhat 

 rounded, upper oblong-lanceolate, 3-nerved ; bracts acuminated, 

 shorter than the ovary ; upper sepal rounded ; petals half-ovate 

 obtuse; lip tripartite ; middle division oblong, rather obtuse, lateral 

 ones shorter, cuneate, truncate ; spur clavate, shorter than the 

 ovary ; flowers small, yellow. Island of Caranjah. 



6. H Candida, Dalz. loc. cit. — Stem 1 foot high, leafy ; leaves 

 sheathing at the base, linear lanceolate acute-m ucronate, 3 to 6- 

 nerved, changing above into floral bracts, which are a little longer 

 than the ovary ; upper sepal ovate, obtuse ; lateral oblong-obtuse ; 

 petals entire oblong, rather acute ; lip trifid, middle one broad 

 lanceolate obtuse, lateral hnear falcate, all of the same length ; spur 

 slender filiform, shorter than the ovary ; flowers few, white. Allied 

 to Heyneana. Southern Concan. 



