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hooded sepal galeate, lateral ones reflexed, triangular, roundisli: 

 spur filiform, clavate, twice longer than the ovary : flowers white. 



Peninsula. Eengal. Flowering in July and August. 



(16) H. AITINIS. fR.W.j 

 Jdent. Wight 1. c. t. 1707. 



Spec. Chae. Badical leaves elHptic-lanceolate, pointed, tapering 

 below into a short sheathing petiole : stem clothed with ovate 

 acuminated leafy scales : raceme lax, many-flowered : bracts acute, 

 shorter than the ovary: sepals and petals about equal, posterior 

 sepal galeate, anterior ones reflexed : lip 3-cleft, longer than the 

 sepals : lateral lobes subulate, middle one narrow-lanceolate : spur 

 incurved or even hooked at the point, filiform, a little more than 

 the length of the ovary. 



Belgaum. (?) 



(17) H. roLiosA. fA. Eioh.) 

 Ident.i A. Richard in Wight's Icon. v. t. 1700. 



Spec, Chab. Stem leafless at the base, sheathing, sheaths loose : 

 leaves elliptic, acute, sheathing at the base, decreasing in size 

 above : spikes dense, bracts ovate, acute, convolute at the base, 

 longer than the ovary: sepals ovate, posterior one broader and 

 shorter than the lanceolate lateral ones: petals deeply 2-cleft, 

 anterior lobe thinner and shorter : lip 3-parted to the base, lobes 

 filiform, subulate, equal : fleshy processes of the cbluinn obtiase: 

 spur inflated, the length of the ovary : flowers greenish or dirty 

 white; petals green. 



Neilgherries, on elevated dry knolls among stunted grass, flower- 

 ing in July and August. 



(18) H. KiupncA. (R.W.) 



Idenf. Wight 1. c. t. 1706. 



Spec. Chab. Eadioal leaves eUiptic-lanceolate, acute, attenuated at 

 the base, those above bract-like, smaller, sub-cucullate, acuminate : 

 bracts ovate, lanceolate, acuminate, acute, about the length of the 

 ovary : raceme lax, many-flowered : sepals ovate, anterior ones 

 reflexed, larger than the posterior one and petals : petals broad- 

 ovate, obtuse, about the' length of the anterior sepals : lip 3-clett, 

 lobes equal: spur fiUform, pendulous, the length of the ovary: 

 floT^ers greemsh-white. , 



Pulney mountains, in pastures, flowering in September. 



