Acrolophia. | ORCHIDE# (Rolfe). 17 
heaths, near Rondebosch, oe nia & ae Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 152! 
eda 300 ft., Diimmer, 778 ! near Constantia, Brown! between Cape Town 
and George, Rogers ! Riversdale Div. a psa 1e Berg, Burchell, 7072! 
8. A. comosa oS & Bolus in Journ. Bot. 1894, 331); 
plant 1} ft. high; leaves rigid, ensiform, very entire, inner as long 
s the seape, the or 3 outer orter, $ in. broad, contracted and 
cucullate at the apex; spike oblong, 4 in. long; lower flowers 
remote, upper approximate; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, rose- 
coloured, the lower 2 in. long, upper 1 in. long, and crowded ; 
sepals linear lanceolate, very acute, 2 in elites petals lanceolate, 
acute, rather shorter and broader than the. sepals ; lip 3-lobed, 
obovate, cuneate at the base ; side lobes short, somewhat obbuse ; 
front lobe obovate, somewhat crisped and ¢ sontlate; veined with 
purple ; disc with 7 somewhat obtuse ‘atl barbate keels ; spur 
eae obtuse, in. long. Eulophia comosa, Sond. in Linnea, 
xix ; Bolus in die Lan. Soc, xxv . 183; Durand & Schinz, 
Gecaeae Fl. Afr. v 
Coast Reaton: Caledon Div. 3 region of the hot springs on the Zwart Berg, 
1000-2000 ft., Ecklon & Zeyher 
I have only seen a single flower and bract in the Lindley Herbarium. 
9. A. ustulata ee & Bolus in Journ. Bot. 1894, 332); 
rhizome rather slender ; roots very stout and fleshy ; leaves ‘tfted, 
6-10, linear or “ible aot acuminate, entire, rigid, }-2 in. 
long, scarcely ;4, in. broad, except at the Sg he sheathing base ; 
n 
al, short 
narrowly lanceolate kien below ; racemes SBllowored — 
oc. 
xx. 469. Hulophia ustulata, Bolus in Trans. 8S. Afr. Phil Soe. 
v. 110, t.2, Orch. Cap. Penins. 110, and tad Linn, Soc. xxv. 184; 
Durand & Schinz, ae ot. Fi. Afr. v 
Coast REGion : Cape Div. . in sandy soil in the valley opposite Farmer Peck’s 
Hotel on the Muizen mgt he 00 ft., Bolus, 4848! and in MacOwan & Bolus, 
erb, Norm. Austr.-Afr. 1 
V. EULOPHIA, R. Br. 
Sepals subequal, free, subconnivent or spreading, the lateral ones 
sometimes adnate to the foot of the column. Petals like the sepals 
or a little einer — differently coleured. Lip co: = 
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