TAB. 26. 



Tribe Ophryde^. 

 Sub-tribe Dise^. 

 Genus Pachites. 



PACHITES, Lindley, Gen. d- Sp. Orch. p. 301 (1835) (Char, 

 emend.) — Sepala subfequalia libera pateutia. Petala sepalis similia 

 nisi paullo minora. Labellum posticum erectum indivisum vel lobatum 

 ecalcaratum. Columna erecta inferne cylindrica ; clinandiiimi anticum 

 apicem versus columnse ; antherse loculi penduli dissiti vel basi tantum 

 approximati ; poUiuia in quoque loculo granulosa in caudiculos adscen- 

 dentes, glandulis terminalibus vel autice deflexis, inter se distantibus ; 

 rostellum carnosum pyramidale vel bippocrepiforme, appendicibus 2 

 corniformibus auctum ; stigma inter loculos anthers pendulum; cap- 

 sula recta, uullo modo torta, erecta cyhndrica erostris. — Species 2, 

 herbae Capenses terrestres foliosae, habitu Dism specierum nonnuUarum, 

 sed florum structura Satyrio magis affinis. Folia linearia erecta. Spica 

 elongata floribunda, vel abbreviata pauciflora, floribus parvis. Bracteas 

 lanceolatae, floribus subaequilongs. 



Pachites Bodkini, n. sj). — Herba glabra pusilla, vix spithamtea ; 

 caulis erectus paucifoliosus ; folia radicalia 0, caulina circa 5, e basi 

 lata membranacea vagiaante linearia acuminata erecta, infimum 3 cm. 

 longum, superiora sensim minora; racemus abbreviatus, laxe 5-fl., 

 bractete foUacese lanceolate, ovariis asqailongfe ; sepala lanceolata 

 acuminata 1-nerva, erecto-patentia, 1-3 cm. longa ; petala acuta, mar- 

 ginibus leviter incurvis, subtus prominenter 1-nerva, 1 cm. longa ; 

 labellum petahs fequilongum, erectum trilobum basi oblongum, 

 segmentis laterahbus oblongis obtusis abbreviatis incurvis, lobo inter- 

 medio lanceolato multo longiori apice subrecm'vo, basi extus carunculis 

 plm-ibus minimis aggregatis pr^editum ; antherae loculi incui'vi, basi 

 tantum approximati ; pollinium glandulae terminales, in summa 

 appendice rostelli insidentes ; rostellum bippocrepiforme, appendicibus 

 erectis terminalibus ; stigma bippocrepiforme pulvinatum ; ovarium 

 cylindricum. (^.i- exeinplan unico vivo.) 



Hab : South-western Region ; Cape Colony : rare, in a moist 

 place on the Muizenberg, Cape Peninsula, alt. about -iOO meters, 

 collected in the begiuning of January, 1890, by Prof. Bodkin (No. 7071 

 in my herb.). 



Plate 26. Fig. 1, flower; 2, odd sepal; 3, one of the petals; 4, 

 lip, — all the foregoing magnified 3 diameters; 5, column, posterior 



