68 ORCHIDE# (Rolfe). | Polystachya. 
EASTERN REGION : Ripa Krielis Country, Bowker, 354! Kentani, 1200 ft., 
Miss Pegler, 619. Natal ; ear Du rban, McKen, 3! inshady woods at De epdene, 
Richmond, 3000 ft. | Sanrson, 891! Town Bush Valley, near Pietermaritzburg, 
2800-3000 ft., Adlam, 
10. P. Gerrardi (Harv. Thes. Cap. ii. 49, t. 176); rhizomes stout 
and woody; pseudobulbs approximate, Hinear-oblong or somewhat 
elongated, thickened at the bas e, 3-41 in. long, with slender basal 
sheaths when young which disa ONT ast ; leaves solitary, linear- 
oblong or narrowly oblong, sessile, obtuse or subobtuse, 5—7 in. long, 
4—3 in. broad, coriaceous ; scapes erect, rather slender, 3-6 in. long, 
with 2 or 3 lanceolate basal shea thi. usually somewhat branched 
at the apex ; racemes or panicles usually short, somewhat dense and 
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Ve ae ke medium-sized ; dorsal sepal elliptic-lanceolate, acute, 
in. long ; lateral sepals triangular-ovate, acute, longer than and 
the als, cuneate at the b lobes sh and broa 
rounded ; front lobe triangular, acute; dise verrucose and puberu- 
lous ; column very short and broad, its foot about 1 in. long; 
capsules narrowly oblong, over 3 in. long. Bolus in - aie Linn. 
Soc. xxv. 186; Durand 2 Cees, Common Fl. Afr. v 
EastERN Recion: Natal; on trees at Ingoma, Gerrard, 1557! Richmond, 
Nauhaion. 824! 
ndiflora, Lindl., Bot. Mag. t. ere a age Tropical African species, is 
inched by Bolus (Journ. Linn af . 186) as a native of Natal, but I rates 
seen a specimen and suspect some piintake in the te record, 
IX. ANGRACUM, Bory. 
Sepals and petals subequal, free, spreading or connivent. Lip 
affixed to the base of the column and continuous with it, produced 
at the base into an elongated or sisonis spur, sometimes much 
elongated ; side lobes sonal or obsolete, eae at the mouth of the 
i i 3-lobed 
convex, often produced in front, scarcely 2-celled; pollinia 2, 
globose, sulcate ; stipes single, clavate or slender ; gland squamiform, 
simple. Capsule oblong or fusiform 
piphytic herbs ; stems leafy or rarely leafless, short or re ae elongated, 
not np sora into pseudobulbs ; leases distichous, coriaceous o goed articulated 
to a persistent sheath, often more or less obliquely 2 —— at ihe ; pedunc raged 
lateral, — flowers usu racemose, somet' in ohlee of fen small o 
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