180 ORCHIDS OF THE CAPE PENINSULA. 
straight; leaves numerous, linear-lanceolate, somewhat complicate, 
acute, sheathing at base, faintly nerved, erect-spreading, 2—4 in. long; 
spike cylindrical, 2-6 in. long, about #in. in diameter; odd sepal 
linear-oblong, obtuse; the connate sepals ovato-rotundate, emarginate, 
ascending; petals rounded, very concave, forming an inflated hood 
2-24 lines wide, 14 lines high; limb of the lip very small, sessile, 
bilobed, lobes ovate, obtuse, the appendage sub-galeate, very round or 
dome-like on the summit, obtuse at either extremity, keeled below in 
front, with 2 projecting lateral points; rostellum horizontal, very 
short; stigma bilobed. Lindley, in Bauer’s Ill. of Orch. Plants 
(1838), t. 15. Ophrys bicolor, Thunberg, Prodr. Plant. Cap. (1794), 
p- 2. C. bicolor, Thunberg, Flor. Cap. ed. 1823, p. 21. 
Has. On the slopes of the Lion’s Head Mountain; fl. Oct. (1873), Bolus, 2856. 
‘‘On the mountains near Cape Town,” Ecklon d& Zeyher, according to Sonder in the 
Linnea, vol. xix. (1847), p. 111.—Extends to Tulbagh and Riversda]Je District 
(Burchell, 6605; Zeyher, 3952). 
The colour of the flowers is a dull tawny yellow. The habit is 
usually taller and more slender, the spike denser, and the flowers 
smaller than in C. orobanchoides. It is also taller and has smaller 
flowers than C. excisum. The chief difference from either is in the 
lip. My deseription is from two plants gathered near Tulbagh and 
Artois, and drawn from life; but though neither exactly agrees with 
Bauer’s fine figures, I can hardly doubt that they belong to the same 
species. Hither Bauer’s drawings were made from withered or dried 
specimens, or the plant he represented had undergone a certain 
modification by cultivation in England. Ker’s figure in the Journ. 
Sci. R. Inst., vol. vi., t. 1, f. 1, quoted by Lindley, G. & Sp. O., 368, 
for this plant, belongs to C. crispum, Sw.. There is a little uncertainty 
about the naming of my specimens, No. 2856, and my own set of 
them was unfortunately lost by shipwreck; so that I should have 
hesitated to insert the species here were it not for the confirmation 
afforded by Sonder’s list of E. & Z.’s Orchids in the Linnea (as above 
quoted). Sonder’s list was probably revised by Lindley, and Reichen- 
bach, the younger, in his ‘ Die Orchideen des Herbars Thunbergs,’ 
confirms the identity of Lindley’s plant with that marked C. bicolor in 
Thunberg’s herbarium. 
2. Coryecium bifidum, Sonder, in Linnea, vol. xix. (1847), p. 
111.—Stem 4-14 ft. high ; leaves distichous, very wide and sheathing 
at base, channelled, long-pointed, about 4 in. long, the upper shorter 
and reduced to scales; spike densely-flowered, cylindrical, 4 in. long ; 
odd sepal oblong-linear ; the connate side sepals bifid to the middle, 
the lobes somewhat divaricate, obtuse; petals ovate, concave or sub- 
saccate, twisted towards the odd sepal, very shortly pubescent on the 
