TAB. 7. 



Tribe Vande^. 



Sub-tribe Cy^ibidie.^:. 



Genus ANGE^cr3j. 



Angrsecum Gerrardi, Bolus. — Herba epipbytica ; caulis repens 

 gi'acilis, 5-15 cm. longus, 2-3 mill, diametro ; folia disticba ligulata, 

 oblique emarginata, coriacea, 5-10 cm. longa ; racemi flexuosi, foliis 

 breviores, laxe 5-8-flori, bracteis minutis, flores cum ovariis 6-8 mill, 

 longi ; sepala lateralia lauceolato-oblonga subobtusa coucava; sepalum 

 imparovatumobtusissimum; petalalate ovatavel suborbicularia.sepalis 

 paullo breviora ; labelli limbus transverse oblougus, obscure 3-lobus, 

 lobo iutermedio obtuse acute, sepalis petalisque paullo longiore, calcare 

 cylindrico, ore ampliato, obtuso crassiusculo, falcate- incur vo, 4 mill, 

 longo ; antbera rotundata obtusissima ; pollinia 2, dissita, fere bemi- 

 spbaerica, singulum in stipite lineari piano incurvo in utroque margiue 

 rostelli recumbeus; glandulis 2, ovatis distinctis ; rostellum rostriforme 

 cuneato-oblongum, apice in os calcaris deflexo. {E.v exempli, plur. in 

 glyc. servatis, exsiccatisque). Aeranthus Gerrardi, Reichenbach Jil. in 

 Flora for 1867, p. 117 ; Mystacidium Gerrardi, Bolus, in Joum. Linn. 

 Sac. {Bot.), vol. XXV, p. 187 (1889). 



Hab: South-eastern Region; Natal: at or near Krans-Kop, 

 McKen, 19, in herb. Kew ! ; Gerrard, 1819 ! in woods near Etsbowe, 

 fl. Febr.-Marcb, Mrs. Clmrles Saunders (No. 6218 in my herb.) 



Plate 7. The plant with smaller leaves is drawn from Mrs. 

 Saunders', the one with larger leaves from Gerrard's specimens at 

 Kew; fig. 1, 2, flowers; 3, one of the side sepals; 4, odd sepal; 5, 

 one of the petals ; 6, lip, — all tbe foregoing magnified about 10 dia- 

 meters ; 7, column, front view ; 8, ditto, tbe anther-lid lifted to show 

 the pollinia ; 9, ditto, side view ; 10, poUinaria, side and front view, — 

 all the latter variously magnified. [Note : It was not until after the 

 figure was drawn and printed that I found from fresher specimens that 

 the sepals and petals in the plant drawn had become withered and in- 

 curved, and that their natural position is spreading outward.] 



An epiphj'tical herb ; stem slender creeping, emitting roots at 

 intervals throughout its length, 5-15 cm. long, 2-3 mill, in dia- 

 meter ; leaves distichous strap-shaped, unequally emarginate, 

 leathery, 5-10 cm. long ; racemes flexuous, shorter than the 



