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* which its margins adhere, while its inner or upper surface 
* is free ; it thus forms a little pocket. "These curious plants 
* were collected by Rev. J. Brownlee, a missionary stationed 
* at King William's Town, who has latterly sent me several 
“ interesting plants, especially OrcAidacee, and from whom I 
* expect many more. He has a good general knowledge of 
* Botany, and I wish that you would adopt his name for E 
9. Penruea melaleuca, Lindl. gen. and sp. 361.—* I do 
* not find the petals ‘anthere utrinque adnata; but rather, 
“asin Disa, attached to the base of the column, but per- 
“ fectly free from the anther though conniving over it. The 
* character of wanting a spur is only absolutely true in P. 
* patens ; in. P. melaleuca, obtusa, and filiformis the galea is 
* either saccate or umbonate.”—Harvey. 
10. PENTHEA atricapilla (Harvey i in litt.) ; foliis lanceolatis 
acuminatis canaliculatis margine involutis, vaginis caulis 6 
apice foliaceis subulatis patentibus, corymbo deuso multi- 
floro, sepalis verticalibus inzequilateris ovato-oblongis acutis 
carinatis, galeá lineari-oblongà acuta basi planà apice cucul- 
lata, petalis oblongis obtusis apice denticulatis, labello subu- 
lato acuto pone GE utrinque obsoleté dentato.—This is the 
plant mentioned by me in the Gen. and Sp. Orch. as having 
been observed in Vahl’s Herbarium, under the name of 
Satyrium hians. Mr. Harvey's note upon it is the fol- 
lowin 
* Root-leaves several, lanceolato-acuminate, channelled or 
* with involute margins. Stem closely invested with about 
" six sheaths, with leafy, subulate spreading, acuminate 
* points, resembling the leaves, but shorter. Flowers densely 
* corymbose, opening horizontally ; ractee ovate-acuminate, 
“leafy, longer than the ovary, involute at point; galea 
* linear-oblong, acute, flat at the base, cucullate above, and 
* produced at back into a compressed umbo ; sepals vertical, 
unequal-sided, somewhat ovate, oblong, acute, sharply 
* keeled, the front margin recurved and produced at the 
* base, the hind margin flat, the apices incurved (towards 
* the galea); petals supine, broadly oblong, ES irregularly 
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