TAB. 36. 



Tribe Ophryde.e. 



Sub-tribe Habenarie.*:. 



Genus Holothrix. 



Holothrix condensata, Sonder in '•'■ Linncca''' xix. (1847), 

 p. 76. Heiba erecta, perianthii segmentis exceptis, pilis patentibus 

 hirsuta, 7-20 cm. alta ; folia dua humistrata radicalia late ovata 

 vel orbicularia, valde injequalia 3-6 cm. longa ; scapus nudus 

 saepissime supra basin late arcuato-decurvus ; spica secunda dense 

 multiflora 3-10 cm. longa ; bracteae lanceolatae ovario breviorcs ; 

 sepala ovata acuta, vel sepalo impari acuminato, 0*4 cm. longa ; 

 petala patenti-recurva, oblonga obtusa 0*7 cm. longa ; labellum 

 circuitu late obovatum apice trifidum, laciniis aequalibus vel 

 intermedio paullo majore, lateralibus patentibus, petalis aequi- 

 longum, calcare cylindrico recto sepalis aequilongo ; poUinium 

 caudiculae in glanduia transversa unica insedentes. {Ex exempli, 

 plur. viv. exsiccalisgiie.) Bolus Orch. Cape Penins. (1888), p. 115, 

 tah. 22, fig. 8-11, anal. 



Hab. : South-western Region ; Cape Colony : in fissures 

 of rocks Table Mt., alt. 840 met., fl. Dec, Bolus 4905; Constantia- 

 berg, fl. Nov., Wolley-Dod, "ll^Sil Waai Vlei, fl. Dec, id. 2306! 

 near Swellendam, Mund (ex Sonder). 



Plate 36. Fig. 1, flower, side view, x3 ; 2, parts of ditto, 

 x6 ; 3, ovary, column and labellum, x6 ; 4, column, anterior view 

 and somewhat from beneath ; 5, ditto, inclined forward, the 

 clinandrium partially opened to shew the poUinia in situ ; 6, 

 pollinarium. 



An erect herb, except for the perianth segments, hirsute with 

 spreading pilose hairs, 7-20 cm. high ; leaves two, appressed to 

 the ground, radical broadly ovate or orbicular, very unequal 3-6 

 cm. long ; scape nude, usually from above the base widely arcuate- 

 decurved ; spike secund densely many-flowered, 3-10 cm. long ; 

 bracts lanceolate, shorter than the ovary ; sepals ovate acute or 



