106 ORCHIDS OF THE CAPE PENINSULA. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Lip spurred or saccate at base. 
Lip three-lobed. 
Capsnle spherical ......3..esseseameemenes KK. spymrocarra 1. 
Capsule ovoid; sepals 5-6 lines long... Hi. rristis 2. 
Capsule cylindrical; sepals 7-8 lineslong EH. Lamextiata 3. 
Lip undivided ; sepals 2-3 lines long......... KE. cocuuearis 4. 
Lip not spurred or saccate. 
Flowers large, expanded, yellow ............... KH, rapunaris 5. 
Flowers small, connivent, nearly white ...... I. ACULEATA 6. 
Flowers small, very dark coloured ............ Ii. usTULATA {f 
A. Lip spurred or saccate at base. 
1. Eulophia spherocarpa, Sonder, in Linnea, vol. xix. (1847), 
p. 74.—“ Robust, 2-8 ft. high. Leaves ensiform, equitant, rigid, half 
as long as the terminal branched scape, the lower more than a foot 
long and an inch wide; spike branched, a foot long, branches erect- 
spreading, 10-20-flowered; flowers nodding; bracts acuminate, as 
long as the pedicel, which is 7-8 lines long ; sepals and petals oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, the former 7 lines long; lip 3-lobed, cuneate at 
base, the side lobes short, the intermediate oblong, obtuse, crisped at 
the margin, all the veins crested with lacerate processes ; spur short, 
inflated ; capsule spherical, ribbed, pendulous, as long as the pedicel.” 
Has. “In sandy places of the Cape Flats, near Wynberg. February.” 
Licklon & Zeyher’s collection.—Extends also to “ Saldanha Bay.” 
I do not know this species, and quote from Sonder, who adds that 
the flowers are “larger than in LH, tristis,” and that “the petals are 
marked with two dark purple spots above the base.” It must come 
very near to /. lamellata in floral characters, but the capsule is 
described as spherical, whereas in the latter it appears to be generally 
cylindrical. 
2. Eulophia tristis, Sprengel, in Syst. Veg. vol. iii. (1826), 720.— 
Glabrous, 1} ft. high; leaves as in HM. lamellata; panicle branched, 
spreading, with acuminate sub-persistent bracts; sepals narrow-lan- 
ceolate, acute, slightly spreading, about 5 lines long ; petals nearly as 
long, obtuse ; lip nearly as in H. lamellata; capsule ovoid, with three 
prominent ribs. Satyrium triste, Linneus the younger, Suppl. to 
Syst. Veg. (1781), p. 402. Limodorum triste, Thunberg, Prodr. Plant. 
Capens. (1794), p. 4. 
