Habenaria) Ill. ORCHIDEA. 15. 
two inner an erect helmet. Lip trifid, segments fleshy, linear, the mediam 
slightly the longest. In sparsely grassed pastures at Pedra Songue and 
around Catete. Beginning of Dec. 1856. No. 684. 
12. H. psiloceras Welw. ex Rchb. f. in Flora 1867, p. 993. 
Kranzl., ic. p. 165; Durand & Schinz, /.c., p, 84. 
Punco AnDonGco.—A terrestrial herb 2 to 3 ft. long, roots fascicled,. 
thick fleshy, hairy. Stem straight, cylindrical, covered all over by the 
leaf-sheaths. Leaves ovate-lanceolate with a cordate amplexicaul base, 
rather fleshy-coriaceous, shining on each surface, pale beneath, spread- 
ing, nerved, acutely carinate. Flowers entirely white, except for the 
greenish tip of the spur. Bracts foliaceous, greenish. Two outer 
perianth-segments, reflexed, spreading, the posterior larger erect, form- 
ing with the two inner a helmet. Lip reflexed, trifid, spur very long,. 
pendulous, cylindrico-compressed, with a flattened dilated tip. Very 
rare in the shady crannies of the more lofty rocks of Pedro de Cazella.. 
Two specimens in fl. middle of Jan. 1857. No. 680. 
13. H. hircina Rehb. f., ic, p. 100; Kranzl., dc, p. 166 ;, 
Durand & Schinz, dc, p. 78. 
* Hur~La.—Tuber as large as a small hen’s-egg and smelling strongly 
like a goat ; stem solid whitish-green ; leaves membranous, herbaceeus- 
green, acutely keeled, gradually passing into the bracts. Perianth 
including spur a pale yellowish-green, lip hanging, yellowish-green. 
Sporadic in sandy thickets along with various Daphnoidee and species 
of Gladiolus; 3800 to 5500 ft. Two specimensin fl. Jan. 1860. No. 736. 
14. H. foliosa Rchb. f., Zc. 
Var. epipactidea Rendle. 
H. epipactidea Rehb. f., Lc.; Kranzl., Le, p. 237; Durand & 
Schinz, f.c., p. 77. 
Distinguished from the South African type (Z. polyphylla 
Krinzl, l.c., p. 214) by its smaller size, laxer habit, less blunt leaves 
and the somewhat smaller bracts of the lax spike; the floral 
structure is identical except that the lateral petals are slightly 
narrower, having a more oblong form than in the type. 
Huitia.—Herb with habit almost of Epipactis, 1 to 14 ft. long, erect, , 
with two tubers ; tubers elongated ovate-cylindrical, smelling like a 
goat. Stem acutely angled, leaves glaucous-green, herbaceous, ovate- 
lanceolate, sharply keeled, with raised nerves and rather wavy margin, 
erect-spreading. Ovary shortly stalked, deeply furrowed, sharplyangled, 
green; bract green much shorter. Three outer perianth-segments. 
whitish-green, lateral obliquely lanceolate, posterior concave-oblong,. 
inner broadly ovate, white, somewhat larger and longer than the outer, 
oblique. Lip white, middle lobe produced, broadly linear, two lateral 
short ; spur long, club-shaped, subobtuse, white at the base becoming 
from the middle upwards pale greenish. Gynostemium yellowish- 
green. In sandy-clayey marshes near the river Monino but sporadic. 
In fl. Feb. 1860. No. 735. 
Kravzlin proposed the name H. polyphylla on the ground that 
H. foliosa Rchb. f. (nomen in Flora 1867, p. 100) was antedated by the 
Indian species H. foliosa A. Rich. If however we regard Richard’s 
plant as a variety of H. digitata Lindl. (see Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. p. 135), . 
Reichenbach’s name must be retained. In spite of the striking similarity 
between the two Reichenbachian species, Kriinzlin separates them 
widely. In his arrangement H. epipactidea comes in section 22: 
