Polystachya. | ORCHIDE (Rolfe). 67 
. P. glaberrima (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 50, 11) ; 
8 OVO : 
leaved ; leaves erect, linear, shortly emarginate, 14-2} in. long, 
about } in. broad ; scape terminal, erect, slender, very glabrous, 
shorter than the leaves, 1—2- flowered, with a small membranous 
sheath hoes the middle ; flowers shortly pedicelled, white ; dorsal 
sepal ovate, very acute ; lateral sepals about as long as the dorsal, 
ou ete beat attenuate and very acute at the apex, the 
front margin much broadened at the base, about } in. long; petals 
linear, dilated above the middle, acute, scarcely as long as the sepals ; 
ip erect, rhomboid, elongate and seta Goi abtinalikte at the apex, 
very glabrous, with a thickened middle nerve ; ieee slender, half 
as long as the lip, with an elongated foot ; mentum obtuse. 
KALAHARI mires Transvaal; Saddleback Mountain, near Barberton, 4000- 
5000 it, Coan 
Not seen, but ne to be closely allied to the preceding. 
9. P. pubescens (Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 643); rhizome 
-—. and woody ; pseudobulbs approximate, ovate or thickened at 
e base, narrowed above, 1-1} in. long, with several broad imbri- 
te sheaths, 2~3-leaved ; leaves elliptic-oblong to linear-oblong, sub- 
obtuse, often cevapistblecsen ‘recurved at the apex, coriaceous, 1-6 in. 
bescent ; 
usually elongated and many- -flowered ; bracts triangular-ovate to 
triangular-lanceolate, very acuminate, {—} in. long, concave at the 
often recurved ; icels about } in, long ; flowers eatin 
Ve . 
rather shorter than the petals ; front lobe abe. bane: side 
li. t. 30; Durand & Schi hing, Conspect Fl. a 36 ; ay att Diet. 
Te. Orch., Polyst. t. 1; Schlechter in Engl. Saket 3 xx. Beil. 50, 29. 
Bs lindleyana, Harv, Ties. ap. ii. 50, t. 178. Epiphora pubescens, 
Lindl. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. aie Sond. in Linnea, xix. 
DNs Zwei Pf. Dicanent 127, 141. Lissochilus sylvaticus, mkt 
x Son ee 
d. in Linnea, xix 
ow 
Sourn Arrica : without locality, Prior! 
Coast Rearon: Uite e Div. ; Van Stadens River, Drége. Port Eliza 
“ile 3 around Krakakamma, ” Der chell, 4547 ! ree Holland, 3! Bathurst Din: 
ween Kowie and Kap River, Drege, 4578! Albany Div. ; wo oof west 
ms ! 
of ! Fallers, 
MacOwan, 110! Stones Hill Range, on trees and rocks, 1800-2500 ft., Galpin, 
8 ; New Years River, Mrs. Barber, 261! Kafferland, Brownlee! Eastern frontier 
of Cape Colony, Hutton ! 
CenTrat ReGIon: Somerset Div. ; Somerset, Bowker 
Kaianagr REGION : recoil i Houtbosch Berg, noid ft., Schlechter. 
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