TAB. 39. 



Tribe OPHKYDE.^i. 



Sub-tribe Habexakie.e. 



Genus Holothkix. 



Holothrix Burchellii, Reichenbach Jil. in Otia BuL Hainb.^ 

 Fuse ii., pari 1, />. 119 (18H1). — Herba erecta, pr^eter scapiim basi 

 pubescentem, g-labra, 15-50 cm. alta ; folia 2 radicalia humistrata 

 orbicularia vel subreniformia crassa carnosa, 2-5 cm. longa valde 

 iricequalia ; scapus strictus bracteis 3-4 ovatis acumlnatis parvis 

 erectis appressis praiditus ; spica deiisa G-15 cm. long-a, secunda, 

 floribus dimorphis, inferioribus fertilibus superioribus sterilibus ; 

 sepala lanceolata acuta 0*5 cm. long"a ; imparl latiore ovato ; 

 petala oblonga apice 7fida, in sterilibus Tpartita, laciniis longi- 

 oribus ; labellum concavuin oblongum, 0*9 cm. longum, multi- 

 fidum, laciniis setaceis, calcare cylindrico labello fere duplo 

 breviore ; pollinia clavata, caudiculis in g"landula transversa unica 

 filiformi insidentibus vel in floribus sterilibus interdum in ^landulis 

 discretis, [ Ex exempli, plur. exsiecatis et unieo vivo.) Scopularia 

 Burchellii, Lindley in Gen. & Sp. Orch. (1835), p. 303. 



Hab : South-western Region ; Cape Colony : near Rivers- 

 dale, alt. 120 met., fl. Nov., Bnre/iell, 0709 ; same station, fl. Oct., 

 Bolus, 11382; near Oudtshoorn, alt. 330 met., fl. Oct., J/iss 

 Beatrice Hops! — Karroo Region ; Oudeberg-, near Graaff Reinet, 

 alt. 1219 met., fl. Nov., Bolus, 177.— South-eastern Region; 

 grassy slopes near King- William's Town, alt. 360 met., fl. Nov., 

 H. G. Flanagan, 2206; Mount Coke, fl. Sept., T. R. Sim! hills 

 about Queenstown, fl. Oct., A. H. fr<?//<?)/-Z>o^ (without number) ! 

 in my herb. ; near Komgha, without number, H. G. Flanagan, in 

 my herb. 



Plate 39. Fig. 1, fertile flower, side view ; 2, ditto, front 

 view ; 3, odd sepal ; 4, side sepals ; 5, one of the petals of the 

 fertile flower ; 6, lip of ditto ; 7, column, front view ; 8, ditto, side 

 view ; 9, pollinarium of fertile flower ; 10, one of the sterile 

 flowers ; 11, one of the petals of ditto ; 12, lip of ditto ; 13, one of 

 the pollinia of ditto. 



An erect herb, everywhere glabrous except the pubescent base 

 of the scape, 15-50 cm. high ; leaves 2, radical, appressed to the 



