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pensium indagatori felici, species hec pulcherrima colore celi australis intense 
ceruleo superbiens sit sacra, 
The structure of the column of this beautiful plant is very singular, and 
not to be well understood without better materials for examination than I 
bave procured. A single flower is all that I have been able to analyse. 
The appendix at the back of the rostellum, between it and the anther, is 
very remarkable. 
1, Herscue ia coelestis. 
Disa graminifolia. Ker in Brande’s Journal, Vol. VI. p. 44. t. 1. f. Q 
Hab. ad Cap. B. Spei, Masson, Burchell, nos. 7801, 7372 ; in sabuletis inter 
plantas junceas scirpoideasque duras luxurians, Herschel. (exam. s. sp. 
in herb. Burchell.) 
Caulis gracilis, sesquipedalis, squamis 2-3 acutissimis arct® appressis vagi- 
natus. Folia setacea. Racemus 4-6-florus. Flores magni intensé cœ- 
rulei, labello oblongo basi pallido supra medium purpurascente. 
Galea inflata, subrotunda, calcare brevi obtuso ascendente supra basin. 
CCV. BRACHYCORYTHIS. 
Perianthium obliquum, subglobosum. Sepalum supremum muticum, con- 
vexum, lateralibus liberis multd minus. Petala ovata, obtusa, erecta, 
basi obliqua, medio carnosa, sepalo supremo dupld majora, sepalis late- 
ralibus dupló minora. Labellum sepalis lateralibus majus, coriaceum, 
basi cavum, apice dilatatum 3-dentatum. Anthera reclinata, bilocularis, 
pedicellata, stigmati maximo ovali intra cavitatem labelli abscondito 
adnata ; glandulis 2, nudis.——— — Herba capensis, foliosa, floribus inter 
folia superiora axillaribus. 
Genus ab omnibus huc usque notis structurà labelli, perianthio valde 
obliquo galeAque mutica distinctum. 
l. Bracnycoryruis ovata. 
Hab, ad Cap. B. Spei, inter Omsamwabo et Omsamcabe, Drege. (exam. s. 
8p. in herb. cel. Dregei ) 
Caulis pedalis et ultra, foliis magnis ovatis acutis dens? imbricatis ves- 
titus. Flores axillares inter folia superiora iisque breviores. Labellum 
Posticum, coriaceum, basi inflatum Stanhopee more, sulcatum, ultra 
Cavitatem in lobum cuneatum tridentatum productum. Planta siccatione 
nigrescit, 
CCVI. CERATANDRA. 
Perianthium bilabiatum. Sepalum supremum et petala in galeam (szepiüs 
anticam pendulam) agglutinata ; lateralia patula libera. Labellum un- 
Suiculatum, lunatum, faciei columnz adnatum, nudum, vel appendice 
Carnoso apice libero auctum. Columna hippocrepica. Anthera resu- 
Pinata, loculis distantibus brachiis stigmatis adnatis; glandulis nudis. 
Stigma parvum, trilobum, in sinu brachiorum, verticale.— ——Herbae 
Capenses, siccatione nigrescentes, foliis lineari-setaceis basi dilatatis 
caulem totum vestientibus. Radices fasciculate, longe, carnosæ, to- 
Mentose. Flores densé spicati. 
