G11 
III.—BARTHOLINA. 
R. Brown, in Aiton’s Hortus Kewensis, 2 ed., vol. v. (1813), p. 194; 
Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. iii. (1883), p. 628. 
(Lathrisia, Swartz. Adnot. Bot. (1829), 49.) 
Sepals herbaceous, narrow, connate into a semitubular piece at the 
base, nearly equal, parallel, erect or re-curved. Petals about as long 
as the sepals and adnate to them at base, narrow, erect. Lip adnate 
at base to the sepals, and forming with them a tube, the limb wide, 
spreading, and deeply cut into many linear, fringe-like segments, with 
an acute spur at the base. Column with its parts distant (not closely 
combined and contiguous). Anther situate immediately in front of the 
petals, erect, long, narrow, with the parallel twisted cells on either 
side of the diaphanous connective; pollinia short, coarsely-grained, 
with long, rigid caudicles, and oblong glands placed at the throat of 
the basal tube of the lip. Stigma elliptical, nearly flat, viscid, situate 
at the apex of the ovary, and entirely separated from the anther by 
the short tube formed by the base of the sepals and lip. Ovary terete, 
curved, ribbed, not twisted.— Terrestrial herbs, 1- or very rarely 
2-flowered. Leaf solitary, radical, orbicular or reniform, appressed to 
the soil, eared and sheathing at base. Flowers white to pale violet, 
sometimes purple beneath. (Named after Thomas Bartholin, a cele- 
brated Danish anatomist and physiologist.) 
Distrisution.—The genus is exclusively South African, and consists 
only of the two species here enumerated :— 
Petals acuminate, segments of the lip acute, deflexed..1. B. pectinata, 
», obtuse, segments of the lip knobbed, upturned. . 2. B. Kthele. 
1. Bartholina pectinata, R. Brown, in Hort. Kew., 2 ed., vol. v. 
(1813), p. 194; Bot. Reg. t. 1653. — Slender, erect, 3-4 in. high, all 
parts excepting the petals, pilose with spreading hairs ; leaf 8-12 lines 
in diam., somewhat convex above, appearing with the flower; scape 
slightly curved; bract ovate, cucullate, more than half as long as the 
ovary; sepals with linear-lanceolate erect segments, 5-6 lines long ; 
petals lanceolate, faleate, acuminate, 12 times as long as the sepals; 
lip orbicular or ovate in outline, somewhat 3-lobed, cut into 17-23 
linear acuminate decurved segments, the spur about 5 lines long, the 
whole about 14 in. long; ovary curved, about 8 lines long.—Orchis 
Burmanniana, Linneus, Sp. Plant., ed. 2 (1763), p. 1834; O. pectinata, 
Thunberg, Prodr. Pl. Cap. (1794), p.4; <Arethusa ciliaris, Linneus the 
younger, Suppl. Syst. Veg. (1781), p. 405; Bartholina Burmanniana, 
Ker, in Journ. Sci. R. Inst., vol. iv. (1818), p. 204, t. vi., fig. 2. 
