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what two-winged beyond the middle, the wings small, decurrent. dn- 
ther forming a lid, articulated with the summit of the column, deci- 
duous. Pollen (?). 
Of this very interesting orchid, T have as yet seen but two specimens, 
and have failed to observe the nature of the pollen in either. If it be 
of 4 waxy masses, as is probable, the plant is a Liparis; and makes 
the third of that genus now known in S$. Africa. The other two (L. 
Capensis and L. Papper) are found in moist spots near Wynberg and 
on the Cape Flats. I have never seen either; but a tracing from a 
drawing of L. Pappei, in Hb. Lindley, has three broad, horizontal 
leaves, and a dense, many-flowered spike of small flowers. 
Fig. 1, leaf and flowering scape ; the natural size; 2, a flower; 3, back sepal; 4, 
lateral sepal ; 5, the column and (empty) anther ; magnified. 
110. MABA NATALENSIS, Harv. (Ebenacea.) 
M. Natalensis: ramulis flexuosis puberulis, foliis oblongis ovatisve 
obtusis glaberrimis supra nitentibus subtus pallidioribus, floribus femi- 
neis solitariis subsessilibus, calyce cupuliformi glabro integerrimo, sta- 
minibus abortivis 6-7, ovario glabro! 
Har.—Near D’Urban, Port Natal, 1861, Gerrard & M‘Ken! No. 675. (Herb. 
dW Bas 2S : 
Drscr.—A much-branched, twiggy shrub, with divaricating, flexu- 
ous branches and twigs; the older with pale ashen back, all the younger 
ones minutely pubescent. Leaves on very short, puberulous petioles, 
3_1 inch long, 6-7 lines wide, ovate, oblong, or elliptical, obtuse, dark 
green above, pale beneath, quite glabrous, netted veined beneath. fale 
flowers not seen. Female solitary, subsessile, axillary. Calyx 1% lines 
long, cup-shaped, quite truncate, glabrous. Corolla densely silvery- 
pubescent externally, bearing 6-7 abortive stamens. Filaments short, 
subulate; anthers erect (without pollen). Ovary quite glabrous, taper- 
ing to the apex; stigma slightly 3-lobed. Fruit not seen. 
With the habit of IZ buxy folia this has glabrous, perfectly truncate, 
and quite entire calyces, a glabrous ovary, and abortive stamens in the 
female flowers. The male plant is required to complete its history. 
Fig. 1, a flowering branch, the natural size. Fig. 2, a female flower; 8, corolla, 
laid open, showing the abortive stamens; 4, ovary; 5, section of the same; enlarged. 
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111. PERIGLOSSUM M‘KENII, Harv. (Asclepiadee.) 
P. M‘Kenii: caule erecto simplici basi glabro apice bifariam villoso, 
foliis linearibus elongatis patulis acutis margine revolutis glaberrimis, 
junioribus ad nervum subtus villosulis, pedunculis extra-axillaribus 
folio brevioribus multifloris, floribus sub-capitatis brevissime pedicellatis, 
corolla calycis foliolis lanceolatis duplo longiore, corone staminee foliolis 
spathulatis obtusis uninerviis medio auricula bidentata introrsum auctis, 
membrana antherarum triangula peltata. 
