108 ORCHIDS OF THE CAPE PENINSULA. 
depressed; pollinia sessile on a cuneate gland; capsule oblong or 
elliptical, 6-7 lines long. 
Has. Sandy downs east of Table Mountain; fl. Nov.; not very frequent; 
Bolus, 4561.—The species extends eastward to Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown 
(Zeyher, 1589, 3897; Burchell, 4594, 6177, 6201). 
The flowers are brownish, the limb of the lip creamy white. The 
species is easily distinguished from its congeners on the Peninsula by 
its small flowers and undivided lip, which Lindley calls ‘‘ spoon- 
shaped’’; the short and thick column is also very characteristic and 
quite different from that of either of the preceding species. In 
herbaria it has often been confounded with FE. micrantha, Lindley, 
which seems to grow only in the Eastern Province. 
B. Lip muticous at base. 
5. Eulophia tabularis.—Glabrous, a foot or more in height, the 
stem erect, strong, from a creeping scaly root-stock; leaf solitary (or 
sometimes two), radical, linear-lanceolate, springing from the same 
sheath as the scape, the upper reduced to swollen amplexicaul acute 
sheaths; spike laxly or closely 3-10 flowered, the flowers nodding; 
sepals ovate-oblong, spreading, about 10 lines long; petals oblong, 
obtuse, apiculate, a little shorter than the sepals; lip 3-lobed, not 
spurred or saccate at base, the side lobes involute, the middle spreading, 
crenulate, obtuse, a little shorter than the petals, traversed throughout 
its length on the upper surface by a ridge which is forked at either end; 
column curved at base into a short projecting chin; operculum obtuse, 
without horns ; pollen-masses affixed near their middle to a large oblong 
gland.—Satyrium tabulare, Linneus the younger, Suppl. (1781), 402; 
Serapias talularis, Thunberg, Prodr. Plant. Cap. (1794), p. 3; 
Cymbidium tabulare, Swartz, in Schrader’s Journ. (1799), p. 224; 
Bolus, in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.), vol. xx. (1884), 471. 
Has. Shallow moist valleys on the mountains; Table Mountain, above 
Klassenbosch, 2300 feet; Muizenberg, 1400 feet; flowering in the latter half of 
December and first half of January; Bolus, 4844. Extends eastward to 
Swellendam (Burchell, 7358). 
The flowers are a dull yellow, the ridge on the lip orange-coloured. 
The species will be easily enough recognised when the orchid-lover has 
found it. But it is by no means common. Thunberg, who was the first, 
so far as is known, to collect it, says, in describing the ascent of Table 
Mountain in 1773, in the middle of January, “ Of the Serapias tabularis we 
found only one specimen ” (‘ Travels,’ Engl. trans., 1794, vol. i., p. 220). 
Nor did he find it subsequently; for, in his ‘ Flora Capensis’ (ed. 1823, 
p. 27), he adds, after the description, ‘‘ Only one specimen has hitherto 
been found.” Harvey also found a solitary specimen, and marked it 
“Summit of Table Mountain, very rare; Jan., 1841.’ After that, the 
