34 CONSPECTUS TABULARUM. 
tusiusculis basi acutis trinerviis dentatis utrinque velutino-pubescenti- 
bus, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis sub-trifloris in apice ramuli subcy- 
moso-aggregatis, sepalis linearibus apice fornicatis dorso cornutis, petalis 
oblongis basi angustatis, ovario biloculari, capsula setosa setis longissimis 
rectis patentim pilosis—Sond/ in Linn., vol. xxiii. p. 19. Harv. § 
Sond., Fl. Cap., 1. p. 228. 
Has.—Macallisberg, and near the Vaal River, Burke & Zeyher ! Zooloo Country, 
Miss Owen! (Herb. T. C. D.) 
Descr.—A rigid shrub, rough in all parts with harsh, but rather 
thinly set, stellate hairs. Branches erect, virgate, with rusty coloured 
bark. Leaves on minute petioles, 1-14 inch long, 4? inch wide, pale 
green, unequally and somewhat doubly serrate. Peduncles crowded 
toward the end of the branches, the subtending leaf often depauperated. 
Petals yellow. Capsule covered with very long, plumose, straight 
bristles. 
Much more shrubby than any other S. African species, with sub- 
sessile leaves; and readily known when in fruit by the long, straight 
bristles of the capsule. 
Fig. 1, Abranch of Triumfetta trichocarpa, the natural size, Fig. 2, a sepal; 3,a 
petal; 4, pistil, with one of the stamens in situ; the latter figures variously magnified. 
LIT. BRACHYCORYTHIS OVATA, Lindl. _ (Orchidee.) 
B. ovata: glabra, foliis ovatis acuminatis, sepalis ovato-oblongis sub- 
acutis, petalis oblique ovatis acutis, labelli sacculo oblongo naviculari 
sulcato, limbo porrecto obtuse tridentato,—Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid., 
p. 363. 
Has.—Between the Omsamwnbo and Omsamcabe, Drege. Field’s Hill, near Port 
Natal, J. Sanderson! On the grassy flats beyond Butterworth, Brit. Caffraria, Mrs. F. 
W. Barber ! (Herb. T.C. D.) 
Descr.—Root ? Stem 1-2 feet high, densely leafy throughout. 
Leaves broadly ovate, clasping the stem, ovato-concave, imbricating, 14— 
2 inches long, 1-1} inch wide at base, tapering to a sharp point. Flowers 
very numerous, ina dense, leafy spike, ‘‘ having the scent of an English 
violet” (Mrs. Barber). Back sepal ovate, subacute, equal-sided, 3-nerved; 
lateral ovate-oblong, oblique, much longer. Petals produced at base in 
front and rounded, obliquely ovate, acute, erect. Labellum with a hori-. 
zontal, ovate-oblong, boat-like hollow base, and an erecto-patent 3- 
toothed limb. All parts of the plant are quite glabrous. 
This little known plant exists in very few herbaria, though neither 
of my obliging correspondents, who have recently sent it, mention it as 
uncommon. The colour of the flower is not stated. The whole plant 
turns blackish in drying. 
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