TAB. 13. 



Tribe Ophryde^e. 



Sub-tribe Habenapje^. 



Genus Holothrix. 



Holothrix Mundtii, Sonder in Linnaa, vol. xix, p. 77 (1847). — 

 Herba erecta gracilis, 7-15 cm. alta ; tubera globosa vel ovoidea, lana 

 coacta vestita ; folia 2 radicalia ovata acuta glabra, margine ciliata, 

 inferum late ovatum vel suborbiculare, superuin minus, ovatum ; 

 scapus gracillimus pilosus, pilis brunneis deorsum densioribus, 4-9- 

 florus, floras minuti adsceudeutes quaquaversi ; bractete ovatre cuspi- 

 date pilosfe, ovariis raulto breviores ; sepala glabra oblonga obtusa, 

 petalis breviores ; petala ovato-oblonga, obtuse acuta, labello breviora ; 

 labellum circumscriptione fere orbiculari, vel " cuueatum " [Sonder), 

 subfequaliter 5-fidum, lobo intermedio spatbulato, jugis superioribus 

 lobulatis, inferioribus integris, calcare conico abbreviate subrecto ; 

 ovarium glabrum rectum, vel " tortum " (Sonder). [Ex exempli. lAur. 

 viv.) 



Hab : Southwestern Region; Cape Colony: sandy banks under 

 pine-trees, about 2 miles east of Rondeboscb on tbe Cape Peninsula, 

 alt. about 18 meters, early October, Bolus, 4971 ; under ' silver-trees ' 

 on Wynberg Hill, Miss Hoskyns-Abrahall ; Swellendam, Mundt ; 

 Winterboeksberg, near Tulbagb, alt. between 700 and 1100 meters, 

 Nov., Zejjhcr. 



Plate 13. Fig. 1, 2, flowers, — magnified about 6 diameters; 3, 

 side sepals ; 4, odd sepal ; 5, petals ; 6, lip ; 7, column ; 8, bract, — all 

 the latter variously magnified. 



An erect slender herb, 7-15 cm. high; tubers globose or ovoid, 

 matted with fine hairs; leaves 2, radical, the lower broadly ovate 

 or sub-rotund, the upper smaller ovate, both acute glabrous 

 ciliolate ; scape pilose with rather short brown hairs which are 

 thinly placed above but more thickly below, 4-9-flowered, flowers 

 minute, somewhat erect, turned in every direction ; bract ovate 

 cuspidate pilose, very much shorter than the ovary ; sepals 

 oblong obtuse glabrous, shorter than tbe petals ; petals ovate- 

 oblong, obtusely pointed, shorter than the hp ; lip nearly 

 orbicular in outline, or " cuneate" (Sonder), cleft into five nearly 

 equal segments of which the intermediate one is spathulate, the 



