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Habenaria (SYN Sieberia Flowers spicate)

SYN. Sieberia. Flowers spicate or racemose; sepals sub-equal, free, or cohering towards the base; petals often smaller, sometimes deeply two-lobed; lip continuous and often very shortly connate with the column, having a short or long spur, and a spreading or pendulous, undivided or three to five-lobed lamina, the lateral lobes sometimes pectinate-fringed or ciliated; column very short. To the species described on p. 107, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

H. incisa (cut). fl. rich purple, small, fragrant, thickly set in oblong, terminal racemes. June. l., cauline ones obtusely lanceolate, deep green. h. 1ft. to 1 1/2ft. North America, 1826. SYN. Platanthera incisa. H. macrantha (large-flowered). fl., sepals and petals dark brown; lip purplish-lilac, marked with darker streaks and freckles, roundish; spike six to ten-flowered. l. sheathing, three-nerved. Sierra Leone, 1886. Stove. SYN. Gymnadenia macrantha.

H. militaris (military). fl., lateral sepals green, oblong, acute, reflexed and revolute; petals green, strongly adhering to the green dorsal sepal, forming a cucullate-navicular helmet; lip scarlet, the side lobes oblong-dolabriform, spreading, the front lobe bifid; raceme lax. l. linear, acute, 8in. to 9in. long, 1/2in. broad. h. 1ft. or more. Cochin China, 1886. Stove. (W. O. A. vi. 281.)