Platycoryne. | CXXXIII. ORCHIDEH (ROLFE), 259 
cauline, 1 or 2, linear; sheaths 2—4, bract-like, acuminate. Spikes 
congested, 5—6-flowered. Bracts broadly ovate, acute, nearly half as 
long as the pedicels. Pedicels 7-8 lin. long. Flowers yellow or buff. 
Dorsal sepal cucullate, acute, 3 lin. long ; lateral deflexed, linear, acute, 
subfalcate, 34-4 lin. long. Petals bipartite; posterior lobe ovate- 
lanceolate, adherent to the dorsal sepal, and nearly as long as it; 
anterior lobe linear, hooked. Lip tripartite; side lobes minute, as 
long as the anterior lobe of the petals; front lobe much larger than 
the side lobes, linear, obtuse, rugose above, appearing constricted in the 
middle on account of the revolute margin; spur filiform, inflated 
towards the apex, acute, straight, 6 lin. long. Anther very long, acute, 
nearly as long as the dorsal sepal; channels cylindrical, straight. 
Stigmatic processes very broad, connate in front, excavate below, 
appressed to the lip. Rostellum narrow, linear, acuminate.— Habenaria 
poggeana, Kränzl. in Engl. Jahrb. xvi. 207. 
South Central. Congo Free State: open country near the River Lulua, Pogge, 
1443 (ex Kriinzlin), i 
41. CYNORCHIS, Thou. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 628. 
Sepals subequal ; dorsal erect, concave; lateral oblique and spread- 
ing. Petals entire, narrower than the dorsal sepal, and appressed 
to its margins, forming a hood. Lip inferior, continuous with the 
column, spreading, usually broad, 3—5-lobed, produced at the base into 
a short or elongated spur. Column very short and broad ; clinandrium 
erect or somewhat reclinate. Anther cells diverging; apex inferior, 
more or less elongated and adnate to the side lobes of the rostellum, 
forming slender channels; pollinia granular, extended into slender 
caudicles, terminating in small, exserted, naked glands. Stigma bilobed, 
extended into a pair of oblong or clavate, papillose processes ; rostellum 
trilobed ; middle lobe concave or complicate, often large; side lobes 
elongated, forming channels for the caudicles of the pollinia. Capsules 
erect, oblong or fusiform, sometimes shortly beaked.—Terrestrial 
herbs, with fasciculate, fleshy roots, sometimes thickened into tubers. 
ves radical, few or solitary, oblong or elongated. Flowers small or 
medium-sized, pedicellate, arranged in lax, short or elongated racemes. 
Bracts small or narrow. 
A genus of about 30 species, the majority natives of the Mascarene Islands, with 
the following Tropical African representatives :— 
Lip entire. 
Spur 2-3 lin. long. 
Plant 8-18 in. high. 
Lip linear, subobtuse. . S S S lO; anacamptoides. 
Lip cuneate-oblong, obscurely tridenticulate . 2. C. Buchanani, 
Plant 5 in. high S : S . 3. C. Usambare. 
Spur 8 lin, long es . A C. Volkensii. 
ue . 5. C. Kirkii. 
Lip 5-lobed. 
Stem nearly glabrous i 2 E Hanningtoni, 
Stem glanduiar-pubescent 2 e s . 7. C. Johnsoni. 
