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* CORYCIUM orobanchoides. 

 Broomrape Corycium. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. orcl. Orchidace^:, § Ophryde^e. 



COR YCIUM, Swartz. Perianthium ringens. Sepala basi sequalia, 

 erecta, lateralia connata. Petala libera, concava. Labellum unguiculatum, 

 cum columnae facie connatum, antice appendiculatum. Anthera dorsalis, resu- 

 pinata, loculis ungue accreto labelli intecposito sejunctis. Glandules nudse. 



C. orobanchoides. Swartz in act. holm. 1800. p. 220. Thunb. Fl. Capens. ed. 



Schultes, 1. 20. Ker in Brande's Journal, vol. 8. t. 3. f. 3.?? 

 Satyrium orobanchoides. Linn, suppl. 402. 



Sepalum supremum lineare, angustum, acutum, inter petala saccata, 

 jlavescentia, apice purpurea rolundata interpositum ; inferius paulb brevius, 

 oblongum, concavum, ascendens, bidentatum, dentibus sanguineis. Labelli 

 appendix (lobus intermedins) alba, dejlexa, cuneata, biloba, laciniis paten- 

 tibus rotundatis ; lobi laterales erecti, virides, anguste lanceolati, furcam 

 referentes, petalis breviores. Antherse lobi purpurei, oblongi, breves, per 

 totum unguis adnati labelli interpositi latitudinem sejuncti, inversi ; connec- 

 tive kippocrepico carnoso subincurvo. Pollinia granulosa, sectilia ; glandulis 

 nudis in apices loborum lateralium rostelli incurvos jacentes. Rostellum 

 resupinatum, trilobum ; lobo medio connectivi forma eique appresso, laterali- 

 bus linearibus, obtusis divergentibus. 



This most curious little plant inhabits sandy places in 

 the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, flowering in the 

 months of September and October. It agrees pretty well 

 with the species described by Thunberg under this name, 

 but not entirely : for that author speaks of the upper sepal 

 being somewhat notched at the end, and of a plant a foot 

 high. It is therefore possible that two species nearly allied 

 to each other may exist at the Cape of Good Hope ; and 

 that while this figure represents one of them, the barbarous 



* From KoovKog a little bag, in allusion to the form of the flower, 



