310 Select Orchidea 



Aht. VlII. — Select Oixhidea from the Cape of Good 

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[Conlinued from Page 222, Vol. Vlll.] 



Of Pterygodium inversum and Pterygodium Volucris. 



Plate IV. Jig. 1. Pterygodium inversum. 



Pterygodium inversum, leaves subdistichous lanceolately 



lorate, spike close. 

 Pterygodium inversum. Swartz act. holm. 1800. p. 218. 



Willdenow sp. pi. 4. 58. Thunh. fior. cap. 1. 112. Ophrys 



inversa. Thunb. prod. 2. 



Bulb undivided, ovate, surrounded with fibres, about the size 

 of a bean. Stem round, thick, covered with leaves, a foot 

 high. Leaves stem-clasping, distichous, convolute, lanceolately 

 lorate, streaked, smooth, about eight, about a span in length, 

 upper one shorter. Flower green, cernuous, with the appear- 

 ance of being reversed, spike close, a span long. Bractes 

 broad-lanceolate, pointed, concave, green, smooth, larger than 

 the germens. Corolla of five petals, subringent ; casque formed 

 of the uppermost lanceolate concave petal, and the two inner 

 lateral large obovate concave ones slightly connected together 

 at the sides : two outer front (by the position of the flower 

 hinder) petals deflected, ovately lanceolate, vertical, concave 

 at the base, shorter than the former. Label adnata to the mid- 

 dle of the style, small, subspatulate, narrower at the base, 

 bent back at the middle. Anther adnate to the style, cells dis- 

 tant, at the side of the label. Style short, broadish at the top, 

 compressed, thick, obtuse, indented, streaked with black : 

 stigma placed at the back below the cells of the anther. The 

 flowers have a disagreeable smell, like that of some of the Fungi. 



Plate IV. fg. 2. Pterygodium Volucris. 

 Pterygodium Volucris; leaves three; ovate; label hastate; 



style obcordate at the top. 

 Pterygodium Volucris. Swartz act. holm. 1800. 218. Willd. 



sp. pi. 4. 57. Thunb. fior. cap. 1. lOp. 



