116 ORCHIDS OF THE CAPE PENINSULA. 
oblong,-bent, very obtuse ; lip somewhat funnel-shaped, with incurved 
sides, shortly 3-lobed (or sometimes obscurely 5-lobed), lobes ovate, 
subobtuse, the middle lobe a little longer and wider than the others 
and upturned at the point, spur tapering, usually decurved, sometimes 
nearly straight, the whole about 6 lin. long (the middle apical lobe 
about three-quarters of a line, the spur about 1% lin. long) ; clinan- 
drium oblong, or conical truncated, very obtuse, with two deltoid 
teeth at the base, papillose ; pollinia attached toa single gland; ovary 
ovate, bent. Orchis hispidula, Linneeus the younger, Suppl. (1781), 
p. 40; O. hispida, Thunberg, Prodr. Plant. Capens. (1794), p. 4; Flor. 
Cap. (ed. 1828), p. 6. Hahenaria hic pide A. Spreng el 
Has. ‘On the summit of Table Mountain, and on rocks on the western side of 
the same mountain,” Thunberg; on the lower plateau of Table Mt., above Klas- 
senbosch, at about 2400 ft., Jan. 1, 1887, HZ. Bolus, No. 7034 (in herb. Bolus and 
herb. Kew). 
The petals are a dull ochraceous yellow. I describe from several 
living specimens from the last-named station, which have been dis- 
sected and compared by Mr. N. E. Brown, of Kew, with Lindley’s 
type-specimen, which he had previously compared with Thunberg’s 
type-specimen of Orchis hispida, and found all to be identical. The 
flower figured in ‘Icones Plantarum,’ t. 1088, and cited by Lindley, 
certainly does not belong to this species. Harvey (Gen. of 8. A. 
Plants, ed. i., p. 821) observed: “‘ H. villosa and (perhaps) H. gracilis 
appear to me to border too closely on H. parvifolia, which varies in 
different soils and situations, and has as often two leaves as one.” 
Having carefully dissected and drawn the first and last of these species, 
I have no doubt they are quite distinct. H. villosa differs by its softer 
and longer pubescence, its more slender scape, the longer linear 
segments of its lip, different petals, and much more sharply pointed 
conical clinandrium,—a totality of characters of irresistible weight. 
Bentham (Gen. Plant., iii., 624) thought that Monotris secunda, 
Lindley, which is only known from a single specimen, might be 
identical with this species. 
PuatE 24.—Figs. 1, 2, flower, side and front views x 4 diameters; 3, sepals x 6; 
4, petals, x 6; 5, 6, lip x 6; 7, bract x 4; 8, column, front view, magnified ; 10, 
pollinarium, magnified. 
5. Holothrix gracilis, Lindley, in Comp. Bot. Mag., vol. ii. (1836), 
p. 207.—Nearly a foot high, pilose, with spreading hairs ; leaves two, 
ovate, pitted above; spike thin, subsecund; bracts ovate-acuminate, 
shorter than the ovary, covered with long rigid hairs; flowers glabrous ; 
side sepals shortly toothed; petals linear, channelled, smooth ; lip 
cleft into three linear, channelled, smooth segments, with a conical 
horizontal spur curved at the extremity equal in length to the sepals. 
Has, ‘Table Mountain,” Drége, 12534, 
