114 ORCHIDS OF THE CAPE PENINSULA. 
oblong, obtusely pointed, shorter than the lip; lip nearly orbicular in 
general outline, cleft into five nearly equal segments, of which the 
upper pair are two-toothed, the odd middle lobe spathulate, all some- 
what obtuse, with a short straight conical spur at base; ovary 
glabrous, straight. 
Has. Sandy banks under pine-trees two miles east of Rondebosch, at about 
60 ft., flowering the first half of October, Bolus, 4971; under ‘‘silver-trees’’ on 
Wynberg Hill, Miss Hoskyns-Abrahall.—Extends to Swellendam, where it was first 
found by Mundt, a collector, about 1827; also to Tulbagh. 
The petals of this species are white, and by this character and by 
its glabrous leaves it is readily distinguished from its congeners on the 
Peninsula. I have not given any measurements of the parts of the 
flower, because they seem to vary a good deal; those I have seen in a 
living state were about 24 lines long, the ovaries about 34 lines long. 
Sonder, whose careful description agrees in every other respect with 
my specimens, says that the petals were three times as long as the 
sepals, which I did not find. For the first sight of this rare and 
modest little plant I am indebted to Prof. Bodkin, who found it on 
Oct. 4th, 1884, and then took me to see it growing, when we succeeded 
together in finding a few more. Subsequently a single specimen was 
found on Wynberg Hill by the lady above-named. 
2. Holothrix squamulosa, Lindley, in Comp. Bot. May., vol. ii. 
(1886), 206.—F ive to eight in. high, all parts, except the petals, hirsute 
with thick rough white hairs, sometimes swollen at the base and becoming 
scales, retrorse on the scape; leaves ovate, acute, fleshy, often withering 
before the flowers, —-1 in. long; scape erect, straight; spike 1-2 in. long ; 
flowers secund, about 3 lines long; bracts about as long as the ovary; 
sepals ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, about half as long as the petals; petals 
from a broad base, linear, obtuse, erect or ascending ; lip equalling the 
petals, the upper half cut into five, or sometimes seven, unequal 
subulate lobes, the two lower short and tooth-like, the three upper 
longest, having at base a conical generally strongly-curved spur nearly 
as long as the ovary; pollinia attached to a single gland; ovary 
curved, 14-2 lines long.—H. Harveiana, Lindley, ib., in part. 
a. Var. scapra. — Hairs on the upper surface of the leaves very 
coarse, resembling scales.—H. squamulosa, Lindley, ib. 
8. Var. ursura.—Hairs on the upper surface of the leaves dense, 
but smaller, and not scale-like.—H. Harveiana, Lindley, ib. 
Has. Frequent in moist sandy places on the Cape Flats, especially after 
burning, both forms intermixed ; sometimes on old thatched roofs near Rondebosch; 
fi. Sept.—Oct.; Bolus, 7022; Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 410; also on Table Mountain, 
at 2500 ft.; apparently widely diffused throughout the South-western Region. 
A robust, rough plant, usually somewhat harsh to the touch, with 
apple-green flowers, and generally growing somewhat abundantly in 
