CERATANDRA. 1938 
I have never collected the plant, and only know it from a small 
specimen and a drawing in Lindley’s herbarium. From this it seems 
very near to C. globosa, the chief point of difference being the sharp 
side angles of the lip in this species, whereas in C. globosa they are 
very obtusely rounded. Lindley also says it is very like the latter, but 
that the flowers are only half the size, and the shape of the parts 
different. 
5. Ceratandra chloroleuca, Mundt, ex Lindley, Gen. Sp. Orch. 
(1838), p. 8364.—Glabrous, erect, 8-18 in. high; stem mostly flexuous, 
leafy ; leaves numerous, 14-8 in. long; flowers many in a loose or 
dense oblong spike ; odd sepal anticous, lanceolate, the cohering petals 
falcate-lanceolate, obtuse, with a flap-like incurved lobe on the outer 
margin, nearly 4 in. long; side sepals ascending, obliquely ovate, 
acute, about 4 lines long; lip posticous, the limb lunate, with 
obtuse, subhastate side lobes, shortly acute, tuberculate on the upper 
surface, appendage oblong, channelled and bossy at the apex, scarcely 
reaching beyond the point of attachment, and much shorter than the 
rostellary horns, which are long, narrow, and nearly parallel. Francis 
Bauer, Ill, Orch. Pl. (Genera), t. 16. Ophrys atrata, Linneus, Mant. 
Pl. (1767), p. 121; Thunberg, Prodr. Pl. Cap. (1794), p. 2. Ptery- 
godium atratum, Swartz, in Kon. Vet. Acad. Handl., vol. xxi. (1800), p. 
218; Thunberg, Flor. Cap. ed. 1828, p. 24; Ceratandra auriculata, 
Lindley, Gen. Sp. Orch. (1838), p. 864. 
"Has. Moist places on the sandy downs, and on the mountain-tops, 50—3500ft. ; 
fl. Oct.—Nov., frequent, Bolus, 4546.—Extends to Paarl, Malmesbury, &c. Burchell, 
6900, 7151; Drege, 1241; Zeyher, 1577. 
The sepals are a greenish yellow; the petals, lip, and rostellary 
arms, bright deep yellow. ‘This is the only species on the Peninsula 
which, so far as I know, has a posticous lip. In that character, and 
also in habit, it agrees with C. grandiflora (an eastern species). The 
long rostellary arms combined with the very much abbreviated 
appendage of the lip, serve to distinguish it from any other species. 
Lindley distinguished C. awriculata upon Burchell’s 6900, as having 
auricled side sepals, and an obtuse lip with a differently-shaped tubercle 
(‘‘ appendage,” as he terms it). The first character is a mistake, the 
drawing clearly shewing a petal and not a side sepal; the latter 
characters are variable in the species. 
