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HABENARIA eracteata. 
Long-bracted Habenaria. 
GYNANDllIA MONANDRIA.— Nat. Ord. ORCHIDEJE. 
Gen. Char. — Cor. ringens. Lahellum basi subtus calcaratum. Glandules 
pollmis nudae distinctae (locxilis pedicellorum adnatis v. solutis distinc- 
tis.) 
Habenaria hracteata; cornu abbreviate didymo, labello lineari retuso 
tridentato : lateralibus obtusis ; medio obsoleto, bracteis fjore duplo 
dentibus longioribus. 
Habenaria bracteata, Br. in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 5. p. 192. 
Orchis bracteata, Willd. Sp. PI. v. iv. p. 34. — Pursh, N. Am. Flora, v. ii. 
p. 587. 
Orchis bractealis, " Salisb. Farad, t. 110." 
Root subpalmated, with several large fleshy simple fibres. Stem about a 
foot high, leafy, striated, and angular. Leaves ovato-lanceolate, rather 
obtuse, striated ; the upper ones gradually smaller and narrower, and 
passing, as it were, into bracteas. 
Sjnke 4ti-5 inches long, with the flowers numerous, but rather distantly 
placed, and not half so long as the bracteae, which are linear-lanceolate, 
green, and very leafy. Corolla with the 5 petals connivent, green : the 
three outer ones ovate, having the two lateral ones embracing and in- 
cluding the inner one. Two interior petals quite concealed by the outer 
ones, narrow, linear-oblong, green. Lip about as long again as the pe- 
tals, pendent, linear or linear-oblong, yellow, or brownish-green, mi- 
nutely dotted, slightly convex, cut at the extremity into two rather ob- 
tuse teeth, and having an intermediate very short and almost obsolete 
one : at the base beneath is a small obtuse, slightly incurved and some- 
what didymous inflated spur. Germen linear-oblong, green, sulcated, 
much twisted. Column very short. Stigma quadrangular, hollow, up- 
on the top of which is inserted the Anther, of two cells, their bases ta- 
pering and standing apart. Pollen-masses clavate, yellow, having the 
gland at the base of the pedicel naked. 
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