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HABENARIA sracreara. 
Long-bracted Habenaria. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.—Nar. Orv. ORCHIDE. 
Gen. Cuar.—Cor. ringens. Labellum basi subtus calcaratum. Glandule 
pollimis nude distincte (loculis pedicellorum adnatis v. solutis distinc- 
tis.) 
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Habenaria bracteata; cornu abbreviato didymo, labello lineari retuso 
tridentato: lateralibus obtusis; medio obsoleto, bracteis flore duplo 
dentibus longioribus. 
_ Habenaria bracteata, Br. in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 5. p. 192. 
Orchis bracteata, Wintp. Sp. Pl. v. iv. p. 34.—Pursu, N. Am. Flora, V. il. 
p- 587. 
Orchis bractealis, “ Satiss. Parad. 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. _ 
Spike 4-5 inches long, with the flowers numerous, but rather distantly 
placed, and not half so long as the bractez, 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. Stzgma 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 is, base of the pedicel naked. ; 
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