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first record of its collection on the Peninsula was that of my friend 
Prof. Bodkin, on the Muizenberg, Dec. 18, 1882; and I subsequently 
found six or eight specimens in the same place, viz., the valley at the 
head of the ravine leading up from the east end of the mountain. It 
also occurs sparingly on Table Mountain; and doubtless in unfavour- 
able seasons it does not appear at all. Besides the Peninsula, the 
only recorded stations are Hottentot’s Holland Mountains, Zeyher, 
W. C. Scully; and near Swellendam, Burchell. 
Prater 1 (Erroneously lettered ‘‘ Cymbidium tabulare”’’). — Fig. 1, parts of the 
perianth x 14 diameters; 2, bract, labellum and ovary, side view x 2; 3, column, 
front view; 4, ditto, side view; 5, apex of the column, showing the operculum 
raised ; 6, pollinarium ; 7, nearly mature capsule: all variously magnified. 
6. Eulophia aculeata, Sprengel, in Syst. Veg., vol. ui. (1826), 
p. 720.—Glabrous, from 3 inches to a foot or more high; root-stalk 
short, creeping; stem erect, with several linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 
sheathing bracts; leaves one or two, from the lowest sheath, erect, 
linear, subrigid, several-nerved, acuminate, as long as, or a little longer 
than, the scape; spike densely flowered, sometimes subcapitate ; 
flowers slightly expanded, or more generally connivent, about 4 inch 
long; sepals oblong-lanceolate, subequal, subacute; petals a little 
narrower and shorter; lip cuneate in outline, 3-lobed, muticous at 
base, traversed by two rows of papille from behind, which are longer, 
and scattered generally over the middle lobe in front; pollinia 
elliptical, approximate, each attached at base by a short stalk to the 
flat diaphanous gland of the rostellum. Satyriwm aculeatum, Linneus f., 
Suppl. (1781), p. 402. Cymbidium aculeatum, Swartz, in Schrader’s 
Journ., vol. ii. (1799), p. 225. C. pedicellatum, Swtz., l.c., p. 224. 
Cyrtopera pedicellata, Lindley, Gen. & Sp. Orch., p. 190. Cymbidiwn 
plicatum, Harvey, in Comp. Bot. Mag., vol. ii. (1836), p. 203; Hook. 
Icon. Plant., t. 104. -CBuchaneni,Reichenbach-f, in Flora (1881), 
p. 829. LH. plicata, Bolus, in Journ. Linn. Soe. (Bot.), vol. xix. (1882), 
p- 386 (excl. syn. in part). 
Has. Common on Table Mountain, from 2300 ft. up to 3550 ft., fl. Dee.—Jan., 
Burchell, 653; Bolus, 3900.— Extends eastward through the colony to Natal 
(MacOwan, 1859, 2129; Burchell, 4571, 7094, &c.). 
The flowers (of the form on the Peninsula) are cream-coloured. 
The species varies very much in size, but seems fairly constant in 
floral characters; in large specimens the leaves become ensiform and 
plicate. There is nothing whatever to distinguish Harvey’s C. plicatum, 
quoted above, notwithstanding Lindley’s remarks. How far the species 
extends eastward, and in how far the lip is modified in the eastern 
forms, in colour or in shape, are problems awaiting solution. I believe 
that there is a gradual transition from the western form to a more 
robust, and more highly-coloured form, which has been called in 
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