TAB. 43. 



Tribe Ophryde^. 



Sub-tribe Dise^. 



Geuus BRO"\yxLEEA. 



Brownleea parviflora, Harvey in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot., vol. i, 

 p. 16 (1842) ; Sander, in Linnceo, vol. xix, p. 107 (1847).— Herba 

 spithauifea, pedalis vel ultra ; caulis erectus cylindricus, basi vagiua 

 nervosa scabrido-hirta inclusus; folia saepius 3, caulina remota lanceo- 

 lata acuminata erecta, obscure nervosa, infimum 7-14 cm. lougum, 

 superiora sensim minora ; spica cyliudrica dense multiflora, 3-10 cm. 

 loDga, bracteffi foliaceffi acuminatissimfe erectae, Acres saepe superantes, 

 interdum duplo longiores ; sepala lateralia semi-ovata subacuta, ultra 

 medium sjepius connata vel quandoque demum soluta, patentia vel 

 deflexa, circa 4 mill, longa ; sepalum impar (cum petalis) galeatum 

 ovatum acutum sepalis »quilongum, calcare cylindrico arcuato-deflexo 

 apice parum tumido, limbo subaequilougo ; petala oblique ovata, 

 margine antico subundulato, galea pauUo breviora ; labellumminutum, 

 basi ampliatum columnfe aduatum limbo libero subulato patenti- 

 adscendente xis. 1 mill, longo ; rostellum ovatum erectum emarginatum 

 utroque latere tuberculatum ; pollinium glandule approximatge ; stigma 

 puMnatum adscendeus ; ovarium cylindrico-clavatum. (Ex exempli. 

 plur. viv. exsiccatisque). DiSd parviflora, Eeichenbach Jil., Otia Bot. 

 Hamb. p. 119 (1881). 



Hab: South-eastern Region; Cape Colony: near King William's 

 Town, March (1841), Eev. J. Broivnlee ; Katberg, above the forest, 

 March, Ecklon d- Zeylier ; Boschberg, alt. 1230 met., MacOwan, 1530 ! ; 

 Dohne Mt., T. E. Sim, 23 ! ; IngeU Mt., Griqualand East, alt. 1540 

 met., March, Tyson, 1080! ; Coldstream, near Grahamstown, J. Glass! 



Plate 43. Fig. 1, flower, side view; 2, ditto, front view; 3, odd 

 sepal ; 4, connate side sepals ; 5, a petal ; 6, lip, — all the foregoing 

 magnified about 4 diameters ; 7, column, front view ; 8, ditto, side view; 

 9, ditto, posterior view ; 10, one of the pollinia, — all the latter variously 

 magnified. 



From a span to nearly 1^ feet high ; stem cylindrical, clothed 

 at base with a nerved roughly hairy sheath ; leaves usually 3, 

 cauline remote lanceolate acuminate, faintly 3-nerved erect, the 

 lowest 7-14 cm. long, the upper gradually smaller ; spike cylin- 



