﻿CERATANDRA HARVEYANA, Lindl. 



Oechidacej:. Tribe Ophryde£. 



C. Harveyana, Lindley, Gen. fy Sp. Orch. (1838), p. 365, non Bonder ; 

 spithamasa glabra ; caulis crectus flexuosus distanter foliosus ; folia 

 radicalia linearia uncialia, in bract eas lutiores basi vaginantes apice 

 ustulatas abeu 3-5 flori ; sepalum impar posticum, 



petalis cohaerentibus oblique obovatis unguiculatis i 

 lobulatis crennlatisque ; sepala lateralia elliptica eoncava patentiaj 

 labelli lamina deltoideo-hastata acuta tuberculata, appendice lamina 

 multo majore basi contracts subquadrata, snrsum in brachia duo 

 dilatata, apice in plicas duas latas stigma obtegentea reflexa; rostelh 

 brachia lata auriculaaformia ; stigma posticum bilobum, lobis pulvi- 



Hab. In planitie inferiori montis Tabularis prope Cape Town, 

 alt. circ. 740 metr., flor. Dec-Jan., rara, Bolus 4548 ( in Herb. Km). 



The petals and lip are a sulphur-yellow, the appendage a deeper 

 golden yellow, sepals greenish yellow above, brownish below. A very 

 curious sped r, Sond., but readily distinguished 



from that by the absence of the long horn-like appendages to the lip. 

 The two form a very distinct section of the genus in which the arms 

 of the rostellum are not elongated (as Lindley originally described 

 the genus), but are laterally dilated ; the flowers also diih • 

 ance from their congeners, resembling those of /'-. 

 which, if the back sepal and cohering petals were hooded and the 

 rostellum somewhat less developed, they would be scar 

 guishable. Harvey inclined to regard the present species as the type 

 of a distinct genus, for which he proposed the name Caloia Lindley, 

 however (and, I think, rightly), considered it as too near to Uratamra. 

 It is, indeed, intermediate between the latter genus and Pterygodmm. 



uc , _terior view x 2. 3. Sepals 

 d posteriorly. 7. One of the polluua. All the latter 





