36 ORCHIDE® (Rolfe). | Hulophia. 
acuminate, 4-1 in. long; pedicels about { in. long; flowers rather 
large, sa ant or the petals and lip pink or whites and the sepals 
brown : sepals oo or attenuate from a broader base, 
acute or acuminate, over } in. long ; petals aiipv-cbling or ovate, 
obtuse or subacute, as long as and sometimes longer than the sepals 
and over twice as broad ; lip broadly ovate, 3- lobed, rather shorter 
than the petals; side lobes broadly dev front lobe broadly 
wha 
elliptic or rounded; disc with 5-7 som t thickened veins, 
verrucose behind and with rag tie eile or papillee in front ; spur 
oblong, rather stout, nearl in. long; column broadl oblong, 
about } in. long. E. baal Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 
50, 25, not of Lindl. ; Bolus, Ic. Orch. Austr.-Afr. ii. t. 9, partly. 
Katanart Recion: Orange River Colony; Bethlehem, Richardson! Venters- 
burg, Low! pce ithout precise locality, Cooper, 976! 3595! Basutoland ; 
sesame metal 0 fE. Magee 628! near Leribe, coe ie Dagar ers ; 
Magaliesberg, Sehlechior 3617, opeoke re, 407! Mooi River, Burke ! Heidel- 
berg, 6000 ft., MeLea ‘in Her . Bolus, 5618 ! es 1390 ! dan, 5627 ! 
9131! near Barberton, ian ft, ’ Culver, 17! Galpin, 719; Pilgrims Rest, 
Greenstock | Johannesbu ure; ree ae ee de Rand, 1097! near Pretoria, 
4600 ft., Miss Leendertz, 680, Nelson. Burtt-Davy, 1044! 38531! Wonder- 
fontein, Nelson, 263! Bolus, 12306 ; la ines ee aaah sl Schlechter, 
4049! Ermelo, Wilkinson ! Burt rtt-Davy, 1005! saris 5476! Baastkraal, egies 
6242! Great Olifants River, Nilkerk, Lesa de arolina, palm 7494! a 
without precise locality, Sanderson! Hallack 
TERN Recion: Tembuland ; Umtata, ite Pegler in Herb. Bolus, 10672! 
Griqualand East ;-on rough slopes near Kokstad, Tyson, 1086! 1596. Natal; 
Oliviers Hoek, sources He the n ifin ela River, 4000 ft., Peet Bl 1 near Camper 
Ww 1, 1960, 
3000 ft., Allison, Zz lil 
This has been more or less confused with £. dr i age Lindl., and may yet con- 
tain more than a seh species. It is very varia and the range of colour is 
agains Examination of living plants may sia further differences 
sp s cited by Schlechter as £. dregeana, Lindl., I have not seen, but 
eoereueaty they should belong here, and I have included them 
2. E. dregeana (Lindl. in Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 202); rhizome 
ine woody, thickened at the nodes ; leaves in a fascicle of 4 to 6, 
ensiform, acute, strongly nerved, more or less recurved, 4—9 in. long ; 
scape basal, erect, stout, }-1} ft. high, with numerous loose some- 
what imbricate spathaceous acute sheaths; racemes short, rather 
dense, a bracts lanceolate or oblon 
acuminate, }-1 in. long; pedicels stout, }~} in. long ; flowers rather 
large ; sepals sti laccelate acute, 2. tin _ long; : ’ petals elliptic- 
oblong or subovate, “obtuse, about twice as broad as the sepals; li 
rounded ; front lobe ee obtuse ; dise with 3 strongly 
rand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 21, partly. 
Coast Recon: Peddie Div. ; Fish River Hills, near Trumpeters Drift, Drege! 
4573a! 
