TAB. 46. 



Tribe Ophryde^. 



Sub-tribe Coeycie^. 



Genus Corycium. 



Coryciiun microglossum, Lindley, Gen. d Sp. Orch. p. 3G9 (1839). 

 — Herba glabra erecta robusta, 15-35 cm. alta ; caulis rectus foliosus ; 

 folia plura ligulata acuminata erecto-incurva, 6-10 cm. louga, superiora 

 seusim minora, vaginis amplis caulem totum fere obtegentibus ; spica 

 oblonga dense multiflora, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis apice 

 ustulatis Acres subsuperantibus ; periantbium quam in congeneribus 

 magis expansum erectumque ; sepalum impar oblongum obtusissimum ; 

 sepala lateralia autica coalita ovata emarginata concava membrauacea 

 deflexa ; petala subquadrata coucava, augulis exterioribus rotuudatis, 

 margine crenulato ; labelli limbus linearis acutus deflexus, appendix e 

 basi late unguiculata subspatliulata emarginata, antice carinata inflexa; 

 columna e duabus ligulis ad sese arete applicitis borizontalibus, antice 

 iucurvis, quarum exterior (posterior) antherre loculis, interior rostellum 

 cum glandula, in utroque apice ferunt ; stigmata 2, antica, in processu 

 iuteriori utroque latere labelli basin versus posita. {Ex exempli, plur, 

 liv.) 



Hah: South-western Region; Cape Colony: Paarlberg, Dm/e; 

 Kiip-fontein, Zeij/ier, 1575 ; near Vyge Kraal, Cape Flats, alt. about 12 

 met., fl. Nov. 19 (1890), G. Guthrie (No. 7098 in my herb.); between 

 Tokai and Steenberg, on the Cape Peninsula, alt. about 40 met., Nov. 

 27, C. B. Fair. 



Plate 46. Fig. 1, flower, front view ; 2, ditto, back view ; 3, odd 

 sepal; 4, petals; 5, side sepals ; 6, lip, front view, — the last four being 

 somewhat flattened out artificially; 5, side sepals, side view, natural 

 position ; 7, another flower, — all the foregoing magnified 8 diameters ; 

 8, column with Hp, viewed obliquely from the front ; 9, ditto, from the 

 back ; 10, column, (s) one of the two stigmas, (a) anther, (r) rostellum, 

 (g) gland of the pollinia, (L) point of attachment of the lip; 11 , one of 

 the pollinia, — all the latter variously magnified. 



A glabrous erect robust herb, 15-35 cm. high ; stem straight 

 leafy ; leaves several strap-shaped acuminate erect-incurved, 6-10 

 cm. long, the upper gradually smaller, the sheaths almost entirely 

 covering the stem ; spike oblong, densely many-fl., bracts ovate- 



