156 MR. B- TKIMEK ON THE STEtlCTUEE OF BONATEA SPECIOSA. 



wretctedly described that it is impossible to identify it, and tlie 



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proper course appears to be to ignore the name. 



Benjamin describes a second Cape species in tbe ' Botanische 

 Zeitung * (1845, p. 213), which I have failed to identify in the her- 

 baria which I have examined. It is 



2T^ U. Lehmanni. Scapo substricto (1 polk longo) rare 1- plerumque 

 2-3-floro, floribus subsessilibus, labio superiore coroUae erecto rotun- 

 dato, inferiore duplo longiore dilatato apiculato, calcari cor. sub- 

 aequilongo labio inf. approximato obtuso v. acutiusculo. — Flores 

 approximatierecti. Ped, ^ lin. longi. Cor. 1^-2^ lin. longa, lutea v. 

 fusco-lutea, striis saturatioribus notata. 



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§ 3. Folia (sub anfJiesi scepius persistentid) reniformia, orliciilata 

 V. ohovafo-spathulafa. Calyx lohis valde incequalibtis^ inferiore 

 minore. Corolla lahio inferiore non galeiformi plus minus 

 lobato. Semina (an semper^) appendiculata, pilis v. spinuJis 



instruct a. 



Wall 



Mann 



On the Structure of Bonatea speciosa^ Linnl sp., veith reference 

 to its Fertilization. By Eoland TrmMk, Menib. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond. Commxmicated by Chables Dabwik, Esq., E.R.S. & L.S. 



[Eead December 1, 1864.] 



[Plate I.] 



Mr 



no less than his direct request that I sbould examine its struc- 

 ture, led me to search with care the neighbourhood of Cape Towu 

 in the hope of discovering it ; but I met with no success. It was 



easure 



Mr 



South African Museum, living flowers of Bonatea speciosa, which 

 had expanded in a conservatory in Cape Town. The following 

 details have been gathered from a careful examination of these 



iires 



them sufficiently intelligible. 



The peculiar characters presented by the genus Bonatea^ "Willd., 

 ,are given by Lindley and other authorities. It is sufficient to 



* On the various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids arc 

 Fertilized bv Insects, &c., w^ 87. 302, 304, 330, 334. 



