10 ORCHIDE (Rolfe). | Megacliniwm. 
duced into a short foot; anther terminal, operculate, incumbent 
2- or rarely 1-celled ; pollinia — normally 4, but usually con- 
nate in pairs, without a 
Epiphytic herbs, with stout ng rhizomes ; pseudobulbs sessile in the axil 
of a shoatie: te ostly 3- ie ngled, 2- or 1-leaved ; scapes arising from the base of 
he pseu site, sim apex ila a flattened, often ensiform and 
almost foliaceous rhachis sone either side of which the flowers a are 
distichously arrang bracts usually ovate or triangular, ultimately much 
deflexed ; flowers ma Viediballed. curved. 
Dist pecies about 30, mostly bic. African, with 2 South African 
supieeaennives atid 1 rep orted from M adag 
Pseudobulbs na owl —— Sree slightly Acangled 
leaves tiashowky ong (1) Sandersoni. 
nigh that bony orateblong strongly tangle 
es elliptic-oblong .- (2) scaberulum. 
1. M. Sandersoni (Oliv. in Bot. Mag. sub t. 59 936); rhizome 
creeping, moder: ately stout ; pseudobulbs narrowly ovoid-oblong, 
slightly ‘4. pragity 1-1} in. long, 2-leaved ; leaves narrowly oblong, 
obtuse, 2-21 long, }—} in. broad; scapes 34—4 in. long, with 
3 or 4 oblong hte: sheaths below the inflorescence ; rhachis rather 
narrow, a ut 1- as in. ze 1 in. broad, dark purple ; bracts tri- 
som 
concave, a ne Tong ae sepals obliquely pis with falcate 
column short, with broad wings ; capsule oblong, e in. long. ulbo- 
phy ae Sanderson Reichb. f. in Flora, 1878, 78; Bolus in Journ. 
Lin and Ic. Orch. Austr. Afr, i. t. 3, oe | (excl. 
Send biel i plandy’ ‘ Vicnd & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. ¥ 
KALAHARI san lh Transvaal ; Rendall! on pe at Saddleback Kloof and 
Moodies, near Barberton, at 4100 ft., Culver, 6; Umzindine Creek, 4600 ft., 
ig 688. 
ASTERN REGION : Natal ; Sanderson, 898! Mrs. K. Saunders! 
Scaberulum (Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1888, iv. 6); rhizome 
creeping, stout ; pseudobulbs ovoid, tetragonal, {-1} in. long, 2-leaved ; 
leaves ellipti ic-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, 13-2 in. long, $—} in. 
broad ; scapes suberect, 4—6 in. long, with 3 or 4 oblong obtuse 
sheaths below the infloréseenen ; rhachis flattened, 2—4 in, lon ng, } in. 
broad, pale green, densely spotted and marbled with dusky-brown 
rather numerous, dull purple, becoming green spotted with purple 
at the base of the sepals; sepals papillose, dorsal narrowly lan- 
ceolate-linear, acute, } in. long, lateral shorter, falcate, with broadly 
ovate base and oyahestnic acute apex ; petals falcate, reflexed, narrowly 
linear, acute, } in. long ; lip sharply reflexed, base broadly orbicular, 
then rapidly narro wed into a broadly linear obtuse apex, grooved on 
the upper half, with two keels underneath ; column short, with 
