CORYCIUM, 181 
outer surface; limb of the lip sessile, lanceolate, quite entire, shorter 
than the sepals, the appendage ovate, subacute. C. ligulatum, Reich- 
enbach, the younger, in the Linnea, xix. (1847), 375. 
Has. ‘On the mountains near Cape Town,” Ecklon & Zeyher, according to 
Sonder as above. 
‘Flowers white, not larger than those of C. bicolor.” A very 
distinct species, intermediate between C. bicolor and C. microglossum, 
Lindley. In the first-named the sepals are roundish, and slightly 
notched at the apex, whereas in this species they are divided nearly to 
the middle. The appendage of the lip is much smaller than in 
C. microglossum. The foregoing is taken from Sonder; I know 
nothing further of the plant, never having been fortunate enough to 
meet with it. Sonder was a very careful botanist, and I feel assured 
both that it is a well-marked species, and that it will yet reward some 
diligent or lucky collector. Reichenbach himself admitted the syn- 
onymy of his C. ligulatum, in Walpers’ Annales, vol. i. (1849), p. 805. 
He describes the lip of his plant as ‘“‘ oblong, rather acute, sessile, 
keeled in the middle, membranous, the appendage erect, widely clawed 
at base, triangular, the upper angle entirely rounded, the lower 
keeled.”” He adds that the flowers appear to be white, and of the 
size of those of C. excisum, Lindley. 
8. Corycium orobanchoides, Swartz, in Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. 
Handl., vol. xxi. (1800), p. 222. — Glabrous, erect, 4-12 in. high ; 
stem straight, leafy; leaves several, ensiform, acuminate, keeled, 
sheathing at base, 2-4 in. long; spike densely many-flowered, cylin- 
drical or lanceolate, from 4-14 in. wide; odd sepal lanceolate, 
channelled; the connate side sepals rounded, slightly emarginate ; 
petals oblong, very concave, obliquely acute, with a large round blunt 
sac at base; limb of the lip projecting, clawed, cuneate-bilobed, ex- 
serted, the appendage rising shortly in front, blunt and keeled, then 
deflexed and deeply partite into two long forks behind; rostellum 
ascending, bearing the erect, distant anther-cells on the anterior 
surface of its arms; stigma horseshoe-shaped, pulvinate. Ker, in 
Journ. Sci. R. Inst., vol. viii. (1820), t. 8, f. 3; Thunberg, Flor. Cap. 
ed. 1823, p. 20; Lindley, in Bot. Reg., xxiv. (1838), t. 45. Satyriwn 
orobanchoides, Linneus, the younger, Suppl. (1781), 402; Thunberg, 
Prodr. Pl. Cap. (1794), p. 6. 
Has. In sandy places, near Cape Town, Rondebosch, &c., common, mostly 
under 100 ft. elevation ; fl. Sept.—Oct., Bolus, 3935; Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 181. 
—Extends to Paarl and Somerset’ West; Drége, 4782; Ecklon. 
The flowers are greenish yellow with crimson tips to the petals; 
the anther-cells are also crimson, and shew like minute eyes in the 
middle of the flower; the limb of the lip is white, with greenish 
