GXXII. OllCHIDACE^. 3G3 



15. SCOPULARIA, Lindl. 



Sepals membranous, converging, the lateral smaller. Petals 

 membranous, lacero-multifid, convolute round the label lum. 

 Labellum erect, convolute, membranous, spurred, lacero-mul- 

 tifid at the apex. Anther free, erect ; cells close, parallel, 

 dilated at base, ascending, forming a large, unequal-sided hood 

 covering the glands. — Lindl. Orch. p. 303. 



A small Orchid, with 2 roundish radical leaves, a nude, hairy scape, and a 

 long, subsecund spike of small flowers ; the upper ones of which are barren, 

 their parts split into innumerable shreds, forming a brusli-like crown to tho 

 inflorescence. — First found by Burchell ; common in the Eastern districts, 

 and varying according to situation. 



16. HABENARIA, Willd. 



Sepals and petals nearly alike, or the petals narrow and 

 sometimes 2-parted, all converging over the column, or the 

 lateral sepals spreading or rellexed. Labellum 3-lobed or 

 rarely entire, long-spurred at base. Column free, reclined. 

 Anther-cells with their bases divergent, adhering to the stig- 

 matic channels. Eostellum flat or elongate and hooded or folded. 

 2 fleshy processes of the stigma projecting beyond the anther, 

 sometimes very long, sometimes short. — Lindl. Orch. p. 306, 

 Also Bonatea, Willd., Lindl. p. 327 ; Harv. Thes. t. 55, 88, 147. 



A large genus, widely dispersed, chiefly in the temperate zones. Stem 

 either leafy at the base, and sheathed above or leafy throughout. Flowers 

 in a terminal spike or raceme, large or small. — Many Cape species, chiefly 

 on the Eastern frontier, some of them of great beauty, though the flowers 

 are not brightly coloured. 



17. TRYPHIA, Lindl. 



Sepals converging, equal, herbaceous. Petals linear or 

 lanceolate, membranous, longer than the sepals, erect, adnate 

 to the base of the labellum. Labellum membranous, spurred, 

 deeply 3-5-cleft, connate with the column. Anther erect, 

 small ; lobes divergent. Eostellum ovate, flat. Grlands nude. — 

 Lindl. Orch. p. 333 ; Rarv. Thes. t. 105. 



Small herbs with 2 radical leaves, nude scapes, and very delicate, white 

 flowers in secund spikes. — 3 or 4 species, in the Eastern district. 



18. BUCCULINA, Lindl. 



Calyx galeate ; the upper sepals smaller, the lateral ob- 

 liquely attached to the base of the labellum. Petals fleshy, 

 erect, toothed, converging (perhaps cohering), twice as large 

 as the sepals. Labellum concave, deeply 5-partc(l, spurred. 

 Column with the margins produced and aduato to the face of 

 the labellum. — Lindl. in Ilook. Qonip. Bot. Mag. ii. p. 209. 



