6 CONSPECTUS TABULARUM. 
oyatis obtusiusculis, petalis angustioribus, labello tripartito plano, laci- 
niis lateralibus intermedice ovate equalibus linearibus apice dichotomo- 
multifidis, caleare recto cylindraceo ovario triplo longiore.—LZindl. in 
Hook. Comp. Bot. Mug. 2, p. 205. Sond. in Linn. 19, p. 75. 
Has.—On trees, in the forests of Uitenhage and Albany, frequent, Eck. & Zey! Mrs. 
F. W. Barber! Mrs. Holland! R. Hallack! (Herb. T. C.D.) 
Descr.—An epiphyte, sometimes attached to calcareous rocks. Stem 
6-8 inches long, 3-4 lines diam., closely covered with distichous 
leaves. Leaves 3-5 inches long, 3-3 inch wide, rigid, infolded at base, 
shortly, unequally, and bluntly 2-lobed. Spikes spreading nearly at right 
angles to the stem, 3—4 inches long, many flowered. Bracts very small, 
narrow, deflexed, membranous. Ovary sessile. Flowers pale orange- 
colour. Sepals broadly ovate, much larger than the narrow, ovato- 
lanceolate, subacuminate petals. Labellum oblong, 3-lobed; the medial 
lobe short, deltoid, the Zateral linear, twice or thrice forked, the lobules 
sharp, minute. Spur straight, cylindrical, pendulous, much longer then 
the ovary. 
This curious little species is distinctly marked by its two-tailed la- 
bellum. An allied species (A. tridentatum, H.), has a 8-toothed label- 
lum, obliquely 2-toothed petals, and much narrower leaves. It comes 
from Natal, and was collected by Ir. Sanderson (No. 562). 
Fig. 1, a plant, the natural size. Fig. 2, the back sepal ; 3, a lateral sepal; 4, petals; 
5, labellum and column, the petals and sepals removed ; enlarged. 
109. LIPARIS BOWKERI, Harv. ( Orchidee.) 
L. Bowkeri: folio (unico?) basi vaginante obtuso oblongo-ovato apice 
acuto tenuiter membranaceo 5-costato, scapo pluri-bracteato paucifloro, 
bracteis membranaceis amplexicaulibus ovatis acuminatis, floribus 2-34 
pedicellatis, sepalo postico petalis conformi lineari-subulato longissimo 
acuto, lateralibus multo latioribus brevioribusque falcatis, labello oblongo- 
ovato undulato venoso. 
Har.—Shaded crevices of rocks, near Fort Bowker, Caffraria, blossoming in summer, 
Henry Bowker. (Herb. T. C. Dz.) 
subpellucid when dry, 4—5 inches long, 3-34 wide, pale green. Scape 
bearing 5-6, subdistant, ovate-acuminate, clasping, membranous, empty 
bracts below the similarly shaped floral bracts. Fowers 3—4, pedicellate, 
probably white? Back sepal (resembling the petals) from a broad, del- 
toid base, narrow-linear, or subulate, acute, spreading, arched, 6—7 lines 
long, 4 line wide: Lateral sepals, in front of the labellum, broadly fal- 
cate, subhorizontal or deflexed, incurved, subacute, several-veined. 
Petals similar to the back sepal, spreading. Labellum with a concave, 
suberect claw, clasping the base of the column, and an ovate, spreading 
or pendulous, undulate, veiny limb. Column semiterete at base, some- 
