Angrezcum. | ORCHIDEZ (Rolfe). 69 
Disrrts. A genus of nearly 100 species, widely diffused in Continental Africa 
and the Mascarene Islands, with an eae species in China and _ n, and 
another in the Philippines. Ten of the 11 South African species are e a 
ne genus is here limited to species having a single stipes to the pollinis. 
Leaves flat 
Woden large ; spur over 1 in. long: 
Flowers in pendulous racemes fe. es ... (1) Mystacidii. 
Flowers solitary ... : of nee ... (2) conchiferum, 
abe veh small ; rial under hin in. long: 
Ste etd short, with filiform erect inflores- 
hey es eke 2 in. long: 
Leaves Hee weg ; spur of lip saccate ... (3) sacciferum. 
Leaves linear ; spur of lip oblong... .. (4) pusillum, 
Leaves 3-5 in. long (5) Burchellii. 
Skea fbr g with rather stout, often spreading 
racemes : 
Front lobe of lip as long as the side lobes .. (6) tricuspe. 
j ront lobe of lip much shorter than the side lobes Be 7) bicaudatum., 
Lea 
Sepals broadly ovate ; lip with rounded basal angles (8 ) tridentatum. 
Sepals ovate-lanceolate ; ee with subulate basal 
angles ae ce 
.. (9) Bolusii. 
Leaves equitant ... a mae a Fe ... (0) Maude. 
Stems leafless 24) iy = ae ae ee ... (11) Chiloschista. 
1. A. Mystacidii (Reichb. f. in Linnea, xx. 677); stem stout, 
very short, with flexuous roots ; leaves distichous, narrowly aniafornt 
or cuneate-oblong, distine ctly and unequally 2-lobed at the apex, 
2-5 in. long, 17 in n. broad, with subobtuse lobes ; scapes suberect, 
rather slender, 4—6 in. long with 2 or 3 ovate sheaths below ; 
racemes distichous, lax, many-flowered ; bracts Spreading, broad] 
triangular-ovate, obtuse, concave, } in. long ; pedicels slender, 
+ in. or more long ; flowers rather large, white : sepals and petals 
spre eading, lanceolate-oblong, subacute, }—4 in. long ; lip lanceolate- 
cylindric, curved, 2-24 in. lo column short and_ broad ; 
rostellum curved, with a linear claw and a small ovate-oblong limb ; 
pollinia globose, attached by a — curved stipes to a single ovate- 
oblong gland. Bolus in — Linn. Soe. xxv. 186; Daren & 
Srey Petes ta Fi. ee A, Saundersiz, Bolus in Hook. Ie. 
lt ; Journ, Lin se xxv. 186, an =f Ie. Orch. Austr.-Afr. 
t.2; ai le nd and Schine, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 45. 
os Recion: Komgha Div.; near Komgha, in woods, 1800 ft., Flanagan, 
Easterx Recion: Transkei; Kentani, 1200 ft., Miss Pogl ATL! Natal 
Tavines around Durban, and at Palmiet and Umbilo Rive f 892! 
Fay amore Sanderson, 1001! and without precise iocality sr sw Sk Mrs. 
