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226 CXXXVI. ORCHIDE...E. [Cryptostylis.<br />
Kedah, Peak; Gunong Bintang (Kloss). Distrib. India, Ceylon,<br />
Java, Sumatra. Native name: Bunga Bangkong.<br />
This plant is very variable in size of plant and breadth of the lip, and<br />
more than two s.pecies have been made of it. C. filt/ormis Bl. is a dwarf form<br />
with shorter petiole.<br />
TRIBE IV. OPHRYDElE (GENERA 105).<br />
105. HABENARIA, Linn.<br />
Terrestrial herbs. Leaves herbaceous. Flowers in a terminal<br />
spike or raceme. Sepals subequal or laterals longer spreading.<br />
Petals simple often connivent with upper sepal or bilobed. Lip<br />
adnate to column, base simple or 3-lobed, spurred. Anther adnate<br />
to top of column, 2-celled, bases of cells sometimes prolonged into<br />
tubes. Pollinia 2, clubbed or pear-shaped, granular, with a long<br />
or short caudicle and small disc to each. Staminodes I or 2 viscid<br />
processes on the face of the column below the anther. Rostellum<br />
erect entire. ,Capsule usually ellipsoid. Species about 400, whole<br />
world.<br />
Lip entire, spur long slender. .'.<br />
Lip trifid; petals undivided, spur long.<br />
Lip, side-lobes broad undivided.<br />
Midlobe broad deeply bifid yellow<br />
Midlobe broad retuse pink or white. .<br />
Lip, side-lobes broad I?ectinate; mid lobe small.<br />
Flowers 3 to 4 in. Wide, white. • .<br />
Lip, all lobes narrow linear.<br />
Leaves narrow lineai-lal1ceolate.<br />
(I) H. zosterostyloides<br />
(z) H. xanthochila<br />
(3) H. camea<br />
(4) H. SUSaDDlB<br />
Raceme few-flowered; sepals pink . (5) H. roseata<br />
Raceme few-flowered; flowers yellow . (6) H. acuifera<br />
Leaves lanceolate broad; flowers numerous<br />
in a lax raceme fairly large, a tall plant . (7) H. Kingii<br />
Leaves lanceolate narrow, flaccid; flowers<br />
very small in a lax raceme . . (8) H. inconspicua<br />
Lip trifid, spur long; petals bifid.<br />
Flowers crowded, medium, greenish white . (9) H. siDgapurensis<br />
Lip trifid; spur short saccate.<br />
Plant 4 to 5 ft. tall; spike dense; bracts long. (10) H. gigas<br />
Plant 2 ft. tall; raceme rather lax; flowers<br />
small; bracts as long as ovary<br />
Small plants I ft. tall or less.<br />
(I I) H. glaucescens<br />
Flowers small white; lip lobes linear . . (12) H. lacertifera<br />
Flowers very small green, lip lobes filiform. (13) H. monticola<br />
(I) H. zosterostyloides Hook. F.B.I. vi. 155. Ridl. Mat. i.<br />
226. Whole plant 2 ft. tall or less. Leaves, radical ovate acute,<br />
4 in. long, 2 in. wide, with petioles 2 in. long or more; cauline sessile<br />
lanceolate. Raceme lax; flowers medium green. Bracts lanceolate<br />
acute shorter than ovary, '25 to '5 in. long. Upper sepal ovate,<br />
laterals linear-oblong. Petals triangular ovate. Lip linear entire<br />
as long as sepals; spur cylindric acute. Ca{>sule sub-sessile elliptir-
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