178 MR. H. BOLUS'8 CONTRIBUTIONS 
squantibus ; flores expansi, circa 1:5'centim. lati; sepalum impar 
posticum, erectum, lanceolatum, concavum, obtusum, lateralia 
subconformia, acuminata, patentia, petala vix excedentia ; petala 
subquadrato-rotundata concava, venosa, margine exteriore crenu- 
lato; labellum oblongum basi modice angustatum crenulatum 
Pterygodium hastatum, Bolus. 
Flower, Front view, magnified 3 diameters. 
venosum, circa 3 millim. longum, 2:5 millim. latum, appendice 
duplo majore cuneato apice hastato, carnoso, antice sacculis 
duobus transversis plicatis preedito ; ovarium gracile, cum pedicello 
circa 1 centim. longum. (Ex exempll. 3 exsicc. ut infra.) 
Hab. In Republicà Austro-Africana “Orange Free State” 
dicta, leg. 7. Cooper (anno 1862) No. 1090, in herb. Kew. 
In habit and appearance this comes near P. eruciferum and 
P. acutifolium ; but the structure of the lip and petals is different 
from either. 
PTERYGODIUM RUBIGINOSUM, Sonder, ex Drège in Linnea, 
xx. (1847), p. 220 (nomen); Bolus, in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) 
xx. p. 486.—In descriptione error gravis corrigendus est:— 
Labellum triangulari-hastatum, nee “ semiorbiculare hastatum,” 
ut monuit amiciss. N. E. Brown, in notula adjuncta (Joc. cit.). 
This species being rare, I take the opportunity of adding a 
loeality recently discovered :— 
Hab. In clivis humidis, Jonkershoek, prope Stellenbosch, alt. 
metr. 1250, Jan. (anno 1888), legit Dr. R. Marloth, No. 1853, in 
herb. meo.—The collector describes the flowers as “ purpureo- 
ecerulei." 
