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4. ConvciuM microglossum. 
C. foliis e basi latissimà vaginante in acumen productis, spicà oblongá, 
petalis liberis cuneato-subrotundis concavis pubescentibus, labello lineari 
lanceolato integerrimo, appendice ovato emarginato. 
Hab. ad Cap. B. Spei, in Paarlberg, Dr?ge. (hab. s. sp.) 
Sesquipedalis. Flores extus pubescentes. Spica fere semipedalis, densa, 
multiflora. Appendix carnosus, glaberrimus, erectus, incurvus. Anthere 
loculi minimi et stigmatis brachia divaricatissima. Rachis et bractez 
scabra. 
5. Corycium orobanchoides, Swartz, l. c.  Thunb.l.c. Ker in Brande's 
Journal, vol. 8, t. 3, f. 33? (caricatura). Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838, 
t. 45. 
C. foliis ensiformibus carinatis basi vaginantibus, spicà cylindraceà v. ovali 
densiflorà, petalis saccatis cum sepalo intermedio agglutinatis, labello 
deflexo bilobo, appendice reflexo bipartito laciniis acuminatis. 
Satyrium orobanchoides. Zinn. Suppl. 402. 
Hab. ad Cap. B. Spei, vulgaris ; in arenosis Thunberg. (hab. s. sp. et v. v. c.) 
6. Corycium vestitum. Swartz, l. c. Thunb. l. c. 
C. foliis oblongis cucullato-vaginantibus venoso-reticulatis, spicà cylindra- 
ced densà, sepalo supremo angusto concavo apice latiore obtuso exciso 
cum petalis ovatis ventricoso-saccatis cohzrente, labello dilatato obtuso 
exciso, appendice reflexo bipartito laciniis lanceolatis obtusis deflexis. 
Ophrys volucris. Thunb, Prodr. 2. 
Hab. ad Cap. B. Spei, in dunis prope Picketberg, et Verbooren Valley, 
Thunberg. " 
The above character is taken from Thunberg whose description shews 
this, to me unknown, species to be very distinct. It seems near C. oro- 
banchoides. There is nothing like it in the collections of Burchell, Hesse, 
Harvey, Ecklon, Drége, Thom, Gill, or Forbes ! 
CCX. DISPERIS. 
Disperis, Swartz, det. Holm. 1800, p. 218. Dryopeia. Thouars, Orch. Afr. t. 1-3. 
Dipera. Spreng. Syst. 3, 696. 
Perianthium ringens. Sepalum supremum cum petalis in galeam co- 
hærens; lateralia saccata, patentia, libera, aut connata. Labellum 
unguiculatum, faciei columnae adnatum, inter lobos antherz ascendens, 
appendice sæpiùs apice villoso supra columnam inflexo. Anthera re- 
Supinata, vel supina, imd erecta; glandulis nudis. Stigma angustum, 
transversum, divaricatum, brachiis duobus cartilagineis ssepe contortis. 
— ——Herbe pusille Capenses, Mascarenses, Zeylanice, sæpiùs vil- 
losæ, caulibus apice unifloris aut paucifloris mono-diphyllis. Radices 
testiculatæ et tuberosæ. 
The genus Dryopeia of Thouars a 
Disperis by no certain character, nor ev ; à 
intermediate form between the Cape and Mascarenian species. 
ppears to me distinguishable from 
en by habit, for D. micrantha is an 
The 
