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HABENARIA fimbriata. 
Purple fringed Habenaria, 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA Nat. Ord. ORCHIDEJE. 
Div. Anthera adnata terminalis persistens. Pollinis Masses e lobulis angulatis elastice 
cohserentibus ; basi afBxse. — Br. 
Gen. Char.— Corolla ringens. Labellum basi subtus calcaratum. Glandulce 
pollinis nudae, distinctae (loculis pedicellorum adnatis vel solutis dis- 
tinctis). — Br. in Hort. Kew. 
Habenaria Jimbriata ; cornu filiformi germine longior, labello tripartito 
laciniis cuneiformibus fimbriatis. — Br. 
Habenaria fimbriata, Br. in Hort. Kero. ed. 2. v. 5. p. ipS. 
Orchis fimbriata, Dryander, in Hort. Kew. ed. 1. v. iii. p. 297.— WiLLD. 
Sp. PI. V. iv. p. 39. — Pkrsh, Fl Am. Sept. v. ii. p. 588. 
Root fasciculated, formed of several thick, simple, fleshy, flexuose fibres, of 
which one is generally considerably larger than the rest. 
Stem about a foot in height, erect, almost exactly and acutely tetragonal be- 
low, above deeply striated. Leaves rather distantly placed, the lower- 
most ones the largest, oblongo-obovate, obtuse, the uppermost gradual- 
ly smaller, lanceolate, carinate, acute, all glabrous, faintly striated. 
Fknvers arranged in an oblongo-ovate spike, and of an uniform paleish purple 
colour. Bracteas green, subulato-lanceolate, longer than the germen. 
Petals (or segments of the perianth) patent ; the five uppermost ones 
obovate ; of these the three outermost are slightly concave, entire at the 
margin ; the two innermost ones more inclining to obovate, nearly plane, 
toothed at the margin ; the sixth petal or labellum is large, pendent, the 
base very narrow, white, terminating below in a filiform spur, which is 
rather longer than the germen, and slightly clavate towards the extre- 
mity ; the rest cut into three cuneate segments, the intermediate ones 
much the largest and broadest, all of them cut and beautifully fim- 
briated at the upper margins. Germen rather long, twisted. Column 
short, white. Stigma concave. Celb of the anther set much apart, 
especially at the base, and purplish. Pollen-masses dark green, pedicel- 
lated and glandular at the base. 
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