54 ORCHIDE (Rolfe). [ Eulophia. 
front lobe suborbicular, crenulate; disc with an obtuse fleshy 
keel from its base to the middle of the front et bidentate at the. 
apex ; column clavate g in. long, with a short foot; anther- case 
> + Pee | > 
p. ©. 8 
tabulare, Linn. f. Sup . 402. Serapias tabularie, Thunb. Prodr. 3. 
Cymbidium tabulare, Sw. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1880, 238 ; 
Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 471. 
Coast Region: Cape Div. ; Table Mountain, + summit, Thunberg! Harvey! 
above Klassenbosch, 2300 ft., and Muizenberg, 1400 ft., Bo lus, 4844! Caledon 
iv al, without collector ! Saetiowian Div: ; summit of Craggy Peak, 
near Pein tath, Burchell, 7358 ! 
VI. LISSOCHILUS, R. Br. 
Sepals subequal, free, spreading or reflexed, the lateral sometimes 
all 
adnate to the foot of the column. Petals erect, generally much 
larger and ender than the sepals and differently coloured. Li 
more or less produced into a foot at the base ; anther-bed oblique, 
ote entire. Anther terminal, operculate, incumbent, semiglobose, 
conical or more or less bil obed at the apex, imperfectly 2-celled ; 
linia 4, ovoid, united in pairs, affixed to a broad stipes and gland. 
ae oblong or somewhat elongate, with prominent thickened 
Terrestrial herbs; stems creeping, often thickened into rhizomes or tubers, 
leafy at the — ; leaves elongate, lanceolate or linear, plicate ; scapes usually tall, 
variously sheathed ase Ww, sete racemose pits ; flowers generally medium-sised 
or este arly small ; bracts small o 
Dis . Species oss 100, a as dein and mostly continental, so far 
as at pine ent known, two or three e, however, occur in the Mascarene Islands. 
Four of the 12 arg African species occur in Tropical Africa 
Petals about 4 in 
Spur robisbe or Patni blong : 
Spur stra ight, about 4 in. long ase ees .. (1) elitellifer. 
Spur cenrvedl din. long ... va .. (2) Rehmannii. 
Spur shortly saccate or subobsolete ... cee ... (3) platypetalus. 
Petals about 4 in sie! 
Sepals subconni 
Lip shorter Sia eS sepals and strongly 3-lobed ... (4) eq 
Lip longer than the petals and obscurely 3-lobed . i Ce) cipal 
: ong _ bro 
Petals yellow, veined with brown ... wax --. (6) parviflorus. 
Petals clear yellow . ae .. (7) streptopetalus. 
Leaves ionasiiohiadchlad 123 in. ser el ... (8) Erebsii. 
