Platycoryne.'] cxxxiii. orchjde^ (rolfe). 259 



cauline, 1 or 2, linear ; sheaths 2-4, bract-like, acuminate. Spikes 

 congested, 5-C -flowered. Bracts broadly ovate, acute, nearly half as 

 long as the pedicels. Pedicels 7-8 lin. long. Flowers yellow or buff. 

 Dorsal sepal cucullate, acute, 3 lin. long ; lateral deflexed, linear, acute, 

 subfalcate, 3|-4: lin. long. Petals bipartite ; posterior lobe ovate- 

 lanceolate, adherent to the dorsal sepal, and nearly as long as it; 

 anterior lobe linear, hooked. Lip tripartite ; side lobes minute, as 

 long as the anterior lobe of the petals ; front lobe much larger than 

 the side lobes, linear, obtuse, rugose above, appearing constricted in the 

 middle on account of the revolute margin ; spur filiform, inflated 

 towards the apex, acute, straight, 6 lin. long. Anther very long, acute, 

 nearly as long as the dorsal sepal ; channels cylindrical, straight. 

 Stigmatic processes very broad, connate in front, excavate below, 

 appressed to the lip. Rostellum narrow, linear, acuminate. — Habenaria 

 poggeana, Kranzl. in Engl. Jahrb. xvi. 207. 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : open country near the River Lulua, Pogge, 

 1443 (ex Krdnzlin). 



41. CYNORCHIS, Thou. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 628. 



Sepals subequal ; dorsal erect, concave ; lateral oblique and spread- 

 ing. Petals entire, narrower than the dorsal sepal, and appressed 

 to its margins, forming a hood. Lip inferior, continuous with the 

 column, spreading, usually broad, 3-5-lobed, produced at the base into 

 a short or elongated spur. Column very short and broad ; clinandrium 

 erect or somewhat reclinate. Anther cells diverging ; apex inferior, 

 more or less elongated and adnate to the side lobes of the rostellum, 

 forming slender channels ; pollinia granular, extended into slender 

 caudicles, terminating in small, exserted, naked glands. Stigma bilobed, 

 extended into a pair of oblong or clavate, papillose processes ; rostellum 

 trilobed ; middle lobe concave or complicate, often large ; side lobes 

 elongated, forming channels for the caudicles of the pollinia. Capsules 

 erect, oblong or fusiform, sometimes shortly beaked. — Terrestrial 

 herbs, with fasciculate, fleshy roots, sometimes thickened into tubers. 

 Leaves radical, few or solitary, oblong or elongated. Flowers small or 

 medium-sized, pedicellate, arranged in lax, short or elongated racemes. 

 Bracts small or narrow. 



A genus of about 30 species, the majority natives of the Mascarene Islands, with 

 the following Tropical African representatives : — 

 Lip entire. 



Spur 2-3 lin. long. 

 Plant 8-18 in. high. 



Lip linear, subobtuse \. C. ana ca^npto ides. 



Lip cuneate-oblong, obscurely tridenticulate . 2. C. Buchanan i. 



Plant 5 in. high 3. C. UsamharcB. 



Spur 8 lin. long 4. 6'. Volkensii. 



Lip 4-lobed 5. C Kirkii. 



Lip 5-lobed. 



Stem nearly glabrous Q. C. Santiingtoni. 



Stem glandular-pubescent 7. C. Johnsoni. 



