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this is seen to be deceptive. I have therefore no doubt of the 
propriety of restoring C. aculeatum, Sw., and of placing the present 
plant under the same genus. 
I have only found this species in one spot; and as it does not 
appear in the Kew or Cape Herbaria, it is probably very local. 
CYMBIDIUM TABULARE, Swartz in Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Handl. 
Stockh. 1800, p. 238 (descriptio emendata). C.rhizomate repente; 
caule erecto robusto; foliis lineari lanceolatis; floribus spicatis 
cernuis, spicis 3—10-floris; sepalis ovato-oblongis; petalis ob- 
longis; labello trilobato, lobis lateralibus convolutis, medio lamello 
lineari aurantiaca, apice basique furcata, permeato. 
Totum glabrum; pedale vel ultra. Rhizoma vaginis emarcidis 
vestitum, 0'6-0'8 cm. crassum, radicibus filiformibus. Caulis 
supra rhizoma parum incrassatus subflexuosus. Vagine 5-6 
obovate acute subventricose amplexicaules canaliculatz 3 em. 
longe. Folium unicum (interdum duo) e vagina infima ortum 
erectum rigidum basi angustatum acuminatum. Bracteæ lineari- 
lanceolate membranace:e acute ovario equilonge vel superantes. 
Flores flavo-virescentes, labello pallide flavo. Sepala 2 cm. 
longa venosa. Petala parum breviora obtusa apiculata. La- 
bellum 1:6 em. longum. | Columna semiteres dorso convexa basi 
incurva vix in mentum producta 1:2 em. longa. Operculum sub- 
ovideum obtusum.  Pollinia elliptica subparallela in glandula 
oblonga diaphana medio affixa. (Descriptio ex exemplaribus 
sub numero 4844 a me distributis !) 
This appears to be, or to have been, an exceedingly rare 
plant. Thunberg (Flor. Cap. ed. 1823, p. 27) says, after the 
description, “Unicum tantum specimen hucusque repertum fuit." 
In his * Travels? (Engl. trans., London [1794], 4 vols. 8vo, vol. i. 
p. 220), describing the ascent of Table Mountain in 1773, in the 
middle of January, he remarks, “Of the Serapias tabularis we 
found only one specimen." Lindley, in his * Genera and Species 
of Orchidaceous Plants,’ simply records the diagnostic characters 
without any remark. In his “Notes upon some Genera and 
Species of Cape Orchids” in the ‘Companion to the Botanical 
Magazine, 1836, ii. p. 201, he observes :—“Satyrium tabulare, 
pedicellatum and giganteum of Linnzus, of which the first grows 
on Table Mountain, and the others near Zekoe River, near Algoa 
Bay, have never been gathered by either Burchell, Ecklon, Drége, 
Villett, or any of those by whose investigations the Cape Flora 
has of late years been so much extended. It is very much to 
