66 MB. n. bolus's contbibiftions 



expanse, and the middle part is broader than in the type ; other 

 specimens in the Kew Herbarium are intermediate, aad one 

 s;)ccimen (Natal, Buclianan) has both forms of lip on the same 

 spike.— iV. :E. i?.] 



Satybium ocnBOLEtrcuM, Bolus^ n. sp. Glabrnm, erectum, 

 subdebile, spithama>um vel pedale. Folia dno, humifusa, elliptica . 

 subobtusavel acuta, multinervia, basi vaginantia, 8-10 cm. longa, 

 5-9 cm. lata, superiora 3 sensim in yaginas ampliatas foliaceas 

 apice patentes abeuntia ; spica laxe multiflora, 8-20 cm. longa, 

 2*5 cm. lata, bracteis kmceolatis reflexis ovarium plus minus exce- 

 dentibus ; sepala lateralia oblonga, subfalcata, obtusa, 6 mm. 

 longa ; sepahim alterum et petala lateralia linearia obtusa, 5 mm. 

 longa ; labellum galeatum, 7-8 mm. longum, ore anguste elliptico 

 margine angnstissime recurve, apice producto, erecto vel subre- 

 flexo, obtuso, minute erosulo, calcaribus filiformibus patento-diva- 

 ricatis 1-1'3 cm. longis, ovarium parum superantibus ; rostellum 

 oblongum antice angustatum ; columna> lobus stigmatiferus semi- 

 orbiculatus J ovarium costis acutis, circa 1 cm. longum. (Ex ex- 

 empli, plur. viv. in Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. sub num. 318 distrib.) 



Var. /3. major. Scapus rectior robustior, flores majores ochro- 

 rubescentes ; labellum galeatum ore late elliptico vel hippocrepi- 

 forme. — Orchis bicornis, Jacq, Hort. ScJioenhr. ii. p. 2G, t, 179 

 {7ion Linn?). 



Hah. In clivis orientalibus mentis Diaboli prope Cape Town 



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alt. 1500 ped., flor. Oct., legit A, BodJdn {Bolus 4982 !) ; Tulbagh 

 Kloof, Oct., Herb. Norm. Austr. Afr. 318 ! Hex Eiver, Tpon 

 645 I — Var. /3 cum forma typica Tulbagh Kloof, Bolus 5371 ! ; 

 Drege 1257« ! 



The colour of the flowers is a pale ocbre-yellow, and the whole 

 plant has the scent of Anthoxanthum odoratum. The species is 

 iutermediate between S, candidum^ Lindl. (with which, as Mr. N. 

 E. Brown informs me, Lindley himself confused it) aud S, folio- 

 sujji, Sw. (not the plant Lindley described as S.foliosum). The 

 habit of this species is weaker, the spike laxer, the flowers more 

 spreading, and their size smaller than in S. candidmn, besides 

 some difierences in the shape of the perianth. The var. /3 id 

 more like S, candidum in the dried state, but is less robust. The 

 colour of the flowers in >S'. candidum is always white or a very 

 pale rose. From S.foliosum^ which our plant more resembles in 

 habit, it may be readily known by its mucli shorter spurs, and 

 the larger lower leaves. 



