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RECORDS OF THE BOTANICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 
A NEW INDIAN HABENARIA 
BY 
L. J. SEDGWICK, i.c.s. 
Habenaria (§ Ate) limlti-caudata L. J. Sedgwick, sp. nova. 
Ilerba erecta, gracilis, ad 50 cm. alta. Caul is ima pars vaginig 
obtueis appressis ; media pars foliosa. Folia elliptico-oblonga, acuta, 
mulfci-nervia, et inter nervos trabeculata. Racemus ad 12 cm. longus, 
multifloras. Bracteae 15 mm. longae. Fedicellus cumovario ad 23 mm. 
longus. Flores albi, sed calcari brunneo, et labello cito brunnescenfe. 
Sepalum dor sale erectum, cucullatum, 6x4 mm., trinerve. Sepal a 
later alia 8x5 mm., ovata, paulo falcata, acuta, trinervia. Pttala leteralia 
bipartita, lobis superioribus erectis, filiformibus, dorsale sepalum vix 
excedentibus, lobis inferioribus ad 15 mm. longis, filiformibus, fantastice 
contortifi; labellum 3-partitum, lobo medio 10 mm. longo, filiformi, 
lobis lateralibus ad 25 mrn. longis, filiformibus, fantastice contortis, 
Calcar 12 mm. longum, curvatum, gracile sed in clavello ingenti subacuto 
terminans. Antherae loculi valde conspicui, et pro floris magnitudine 
valde ingentes, supra contigui, infra latius divaricati, tubis projectis. 
Pollinia ingentia, pjriformia, caudiculis vix longioribus, glandula 
minuta. Stigmatis processus elongatae, in labelli basis margines 
utrinque appressae. Rostellum obscurum. 
At Gudihalli, a hill close to the sea coast near Kaswar in North Kanara. Alt. 1500'. 
Rainfall 150". Collected by Mr. T. R. D. liell. Chief Conservator of Forests, Bombay 
Presidency, September 1917. 
A distinct and curious species, strongly characterize! by the fantastic filiform 
appendages and enormous auther cells, projecting beyond the flower when it is held 
in profile. 
