TAB. 74. 



Tribe Ophryde^. 

 Sub-tribe CORYCIE^. 

 Genus Pterygodium. 



Pterygodium caffrum, Swarts, in Kongl. Veievsk. Acad. 

 HandL, vol. xxi. (1800), p. 218. — Herba erecta glabra, 10-35 cm. 

 alta ; caulis fere strictus, foliatus, foliis superioribus vaginanti- 

 formibus ; folia erecta vel erecto-patentia, lanceolate- vel ovato- 

 oblonga, acuta vel obtusa, 4-8 cm. longa ; racemus oblongus, 

 4-11 cm. longus, subdense 4-multiflorus, floribus adscendentibus ; 

 bracteas membranaceffi ovato-lanceolatas acuminatae, ovarium 

 amplectentes, floribus breviores vel subaequilongEe ; sepala lateralia 

 patenti-adscendentia concava ovato-lanceolata acuta, O'8-l cm. 

 long-a ; sepalum impar erectum concavum lanceolatum acutum, 

 lateralibus aequilongum ; petala erecta concava, circuitu fere semi- 

 orbicularia, margine obscure lacerata, sepalo impari aequilonga ; 

 labelli limbus deflexus, circuitu semi-orbicularis, 1'5-1*8 cm. latus, 

 21obus, lobis divaricatis, margine laceratis, appendice erecto 

 carnoso, fere quadrato, apice utrinque excavato ; rostellum 

 horizontale ; stigma bipartitum. {Ex exempli, plur. viv. exsic- 

 cattsgue.) Ophrys caffra, Thutib., Prodr. PL Cap. (1794),/). 2. 



Hab. : South-western Region ; Cape Peninsula, open places, 

 foot of Table Mt., on the east side ; also on the Muizenberg, alt. 

 60-240 met., fl. Nov., Bolus! (Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 176) ; fl. 

 Dec, Wolley-Dod, 2128 ! Cape Flats, nr. Kenilworth, Echlon & 

 Zeyher, Bolus, 9338! nr. Darling, alt. 30 met., fl. Sept., 

 R. Schlechter, 5341! nr. Groene Kloof, fl. Oct., Bolus, 3936! 

 Clanwilliam Div., Cedarbergen, fl. Oct., Bolus, 13512! nr. 

 Knysna, fl. Nov., Wallich. 



Plate 74. Fig. 1, flower, front view ; 2, ditto, back view, 

 X 2 diams. ; 3, lip and column, front view ; 4, ditto, side view, 

 X 3 diams. ; 5, column, back view, s, stigma, g, gland, 

 X 6 diams. 



An erect glabrous herb, 10-35 cm. high ; stem almost straight, 

 leafy, the upper leaves going off into sheaths ; leaves erect or 

 erect-spreading, lanceolate-oblong or ovate-oblong, acute or 



