44 ORCHIDEH (Rolfe). [ Zulophia. 
disc with about 11 to 13 slightly thickened veins, bearing numerous 
long slender Heee fee and 2 crenulate keels at the ‘base 5 spur 
oblong, obtuse, } in. long; column clavate-oblong, stout, } in. long. 
E. bicolor, Reichb. de € ‘Soni. in Flora, 1865, 186, a not “a 
Blume ; Pere in sn Linn. Soc. xxv. 184, ‘and Ie. Orch. Austr.- 
Afr, ii. t. 24; Durand d& Schinz, Conspect. Fi. Afr. v.19. HB. zey- 
le ladies j in gee Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 50, 25, not of Sond. 
Katanart Recion: Basutoland, Bryce! Transvaal; Magaliesberg Range, 
Burk, 330) near Aiesomuprs rst Spruit, Wilms, 1549! ridges pear Johannesburg, 
Baker! Rand, 1096! Ommanney, 75! 76! Mainwaring, 1042! near 
iE ceubdee. 900 “e Schlechter, pei Elandsfontein. near : oardenas enna 
5500 ft., Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin, 1428! Rustenburg, 4500 ft. RODEN, 34! near 
Potchefstroom, Nelson, 331! Ermelo Collins, 6339! Burtt- Davy, 5476a! Pilgrims 
eet yr aiogg tock ! Kudus ROOT: Pr eon! a, Rehmann, 4690! Hei darbeks district, 
038. 
EasTERN REGION : Peaks an . ny 2000 Baur, 809! 
i yeen 
East, 2500-5000 ft., Tyson, 1591. Natal; near nite ot a. se 826! 
Inanda, Wood, 1070! Lidgetton, 3000-4000 ft., Wood, 792 ' Olivier oek, 
source of Tugela River, 4000 ft., Allison ! Ging up to ‘200 ft:, Haygorth 
in Herb. Wood, 1178 0! Wylie in ok. Wood, 11782! and without precise 
locality, Sanderson! 
51. E. ensata (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1147) ; rhizome very stout 
and woody, much swollen at the nodes ; leaves in fascicles of 2 to 4, 
linear or ensiform, acute 2 een gre strongly veined, conduplicate 
at the base, 1-1} tt. long, {—4 in. broad ; scapes lateral, erect, stout, 
with numerous loose imbricate spathaceous sheaths, 14-2 ft. long ; 
racemes short and very dense, ghost en young ; bracts linear 
or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, }—-1 in. long ; pedicels rather shorter 
than the bracts ; flowers light yellow, with’ the disc and fringes of 
the lip deep yellow ; sepals and petals subconnivent, oblong-lanceo- 
late or elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, about 1 in. long ; lip 
broadly elliptic, 3-lobed, rather shorter than the petals ; side lobes 
cheng rounded, front lobe broadly elliptic-oblong, obtuse ; disc 
with numerous strongly a keels ; spur linear-oblong, obtuse, 
‘enue curved, about } in. iong ; column clavate-oblong, } in. 
long. Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 183; Drége, Zwei PA. Documente, So 
145; Krauss in Flora, 1845, Mad Beitr. Fl. Cap- und Natal. 157 ; 
Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 183, and ee Spas Ausir.-Afr. ii. 
t. 26; Durand & Schinz, Canepa: Fi. ‘Afr. ¥ 
SoutH Arrica: without ge Prior! 
: Bathurs 
Coast REGION ; between Kowie and Fst River, Drége! near 
Kowie, Drége, 71! poetic n Bathurst and the Kowie River, Atherstone ! 
Kasouga River, MacOwan ! 717 | near the Karega vibe 500 ft., ge tess 
Pappe! Albany Div. ; Flats near Seven Mountains, Hutton ! Koi mgha a Div 
gan, 0. 
ZASTERN Recion: Transkei ; Kricls Country, Bowker! between Gekau (Geua) 
River and Bashee River, 1000-204 0 ft., Drége. Kentani, 1200 ft., Miss Pegler, 
301! Pondoland ; margins of w near Egossa, 1000 ft., Tyson, 2842 ! Natal ; 
near Attercliffe and Verulam, inn iti, Santee, 108! The Bluff, Wentworth, 
and‘ near Durban, McKen, 7! Miss Doidge , 5880! pretties Sanderson, 494 ! 
