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* CORYCIUM orobancholdes 



Broomrape Corydum. 



GYNANDRIA MO^ANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orchidace^, § OpHRYDEiE. 



CORYCIUM, Swart^. Pertanthium ringens. Sepala basi aequalia, 

 erecta, lateralia connata. Petala libera, concava. Lahellum unguicuJatum, 

 cum columnae facie connatum, antic^ appendiculatum. Anthera dorsalis, resu- 

 pinata, loculis ungue accreto labelli interposito sejunctis. Glandules nud^.. 



C. orobanchoides. Swartz in act, ho 

 Schultes, L 20. Ker in Brande . 

 Satyrium orobanclioides, Linn, suppl 



Sepalum supremum lineare, angustum, acutum, inter petala saccatu, 

 scentia^ avice nurtjurea mhinAntn rnfPT-nntnftim • ir^rai-^iio ««««*/x u ,•*.. 



flavescentia 



oblongum, concavum, ascendens, hidentatum, dentibus sanguineis. Labelli 

 appendix (lobiis intermedins) alba, dejlexa, cuneata^ biloba, laciniis paten- 

 tibus rotundatis ; lobi laterales erecii, virides, angustk lanceolati, furcam 

 referentes, petalis breviores. Antberae lobi purpureiy oblongi, breves, per 

 totum unguis adnati labelli interpositi latitudinem sejuncti, inversi; connec- 

 tivo hippocrepico carnoso subincurvo. Pollinia granulosa, sectilia ; glandulis 

 nudis in apices loborum lateralium rostelli incurvos jacentes. Rostellum 

 resupinatum, trilobum ; lobe medio connectivi formd eigne appresso^ laterali- 

 bus lijiearibus, obtusis divergentibus. 



This most curious little plant inhabits sandy places in 

 the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, flowering in the 



months of September and October. It agrees pretty well 

 with the species described by Thunberg under this name, 



but not entirely : for that author speaks of the upper sepal 

 being somewhat notched at the end, and of a plant a K>ot 

 high. It is therefore possible that two species nearly allied 

 to each other may exist at the Cape of Good Hope; and 

 that while this figure represents one of them, the barbarous 



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From K-oovicoc a little bag, in allusion to the form of the flower. 



