Tab. 7845. 

 CYNORCHIS viLLosA. 



Native of Madagascar. 



Nat. Ord. O11CUIBE.M. — Tribe Opiiryde^. 

 GenuB Cynorcuis, Thouars; {Benth. & HooJc.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 628.) 



Cynorchis villosa ; herba erecta, infloreBcentia glanduloso-villosa, radicibua 

 crassia pilis atris comatis, caule brevi vaginia orbicularibus tecto, foliis 

 paucis gessilibus 4-8 poll, longia elliptico-oblongis oblongo-lanceolatisvo 

 acntis acuminatis v. cuspidatis planis 7-oo-nerviis margine undulatis.scapo 

 S-lO-pollicari erecto viridi glanduloBO-villoso vaginis paacis 1-1^ poll. 

 longis lanceolatis instructo, racemo spicasformi oblongo-cylindraceo 3-4 

 poll.longo obtuso densifloro, bracteis ^-\ poll, longis ovato-lanceolatis 

 ovarium strictum glaDduloso-pubescentem sequantibus, pedicellis ad ^ 

 poll, longis villosis, perianthio \ poll, longo deflexo oblongo roseo, sepalia 

 petaligque conniventibus, sepalis ovato-oblongis apicuktia concavis 

 glanduloao-villosis, petalis minoribus auviculasformibns glabris, labello 

 sepalis breviore glabro oblongo-pandurreformi aplce trilobo lobis rotan- 

 datis, calcare labello Eequilongo obtuso inflato intus glanduloso, anthera- 

 rum tubalia iV poll, longis rectia parallelis. 



0. villosa, Bolfe in Kew Bulletin, ined. 



Of the genus Cynorchis, whicli in the "Genera Plan- 

 tarum," that is in 1883, was credited with about twelve 

 species, there are now at least thii-ty in the Kew Her- 

 barium, the majority of them from Madagascar, from 

 which country, as from tropical Eastern Africa, a rich 

 harvest of species is to be anticipated. Hitherto tlie 

 genus, which is found as far South as Natal, has not been 

 discovered in Western Africa. Only two have previously 

 been figured in this work : one under the name of C. imr- 

 immscens, tab. 7651, which, as has lately been shown, is 

 not the true plant, but should have borne the name G. 

 Lowiana, which Reichenbach gave it ; the other is C. gran- 

 dijlora, Eidley, tab. 7564. A figure of the true G. pur- 

 purascens, Thouars, will shortly appear in this work. 



GynorcMs villosa is one of the smallest flowered species 

 of the genus, it is a native of N.E. Madagascar, where it 

 was discovered by Mr. G. Warpur, in ravines at Tanaiibe. 

 Its nearest ally is, according to Mr. Rolfe, G. (jibhosa, 

 Ridley (in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. (188 t) 331), which has 

 JuiT 1st, 1902. 



