Tas. 7450. 
BARTHOLINA Protinata. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Nat. Ord, OrcuipEx.—Tribe OPHRYDER. 
Genus Barntnorina, Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 628.) 
BartTHourna pectinata; herba gracilis pilosa, tuberibus oblongis, folio solitario 
sessile terrea applanato orbiculari convexo, basi 2-lobo amplexicauli, scapo 
l-floro, flore amplo, bractis oblongis cucullatis ovario curvo dimidio 
brevioribus, sepalis erectis lineari-lanceolatis herbaceis pilosis, petalis 
erectis sepalis longioribus lineari- v. subulato- lanceolatis rectis v. falcatis 
albis, labello maximo circumscriptione semi-circulari v. flabellaaformi alte 
trifido segmentis in lacinias 17-23 filiformes patenti-decurvas sectis, 
calcare lente curvo ovario zquilongo, anthera erecta angusta petalis 
dimidio breviore subacuta, loculis parallelis semi-tortis connectivo dia- 
' phano interposito, polliniis oblongis, caudicula gracili, glandula parva, 
stigmate parvo tumido, 
B. pectinata, Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. Il. vol. v. p. 194. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 
sub t. 1653; in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. vol. ii. p. 210 et in Gen. & Sp. 
Orchid. p.333. Endl, Iconogr.t.40. Bolus, Orchids of the Oape Peninsula, 
p. 111. (Trans. 8. African Phil. Soc. vol. v. (1888). 
B. Burmanniana, Ker-Gawl. in Brand. Journ. Sc. & Arts. vol. iv. (1818), 
p. 204, t. 5, £. 2, & in Journ. R. Instit, London, vol. iv. (1818), 204, t. 6, £. 2. 
Lindl, in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. l. ¢. 
_ B. Lindleyana, Reichb. f. Otia Bot. Hamb. p. 119. 
~ Orchis pectinata, Thunb. Prodr. Fi. Hd. 11. Cap. p. 4. 
O. Burmanniana, Linn. Sp. Pl. Ed. 11. p. 1334, 
Arethusa ciliaris, Linn. f. Suppl. 405. 
One of the most singular of Cape plants, the “ Spider 
Orchid” of the colonists, discovered by Burmann nearly a 
century and a half ago, and first introduced into cultivation 
in England in 1787, by Masson, the indefatigable collector 
sent from Kew to 8. Africa. It inhabits grassy places 
amongst bushes at the foot of the hills near the sea, from 
Cape Town, eastwards to Grahamstown, and perhaps 
further. It was long supposed to be monotypic, but Mr. 
Bolus about ten years ago described a second species, PB. 
Ethele (Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xx. (1884), p. 472, and 
Orchids of the Cape Peninsula, p. 112, t. 3), which is a 
larger plant, with each of the filiform segments of the lip 
tipped with a flattened cushion, much like those that termi- 
nate the segments of the so-called nectaries of Parnassia,— 
DecempBer Ist, 1895. 
