Mystacidium.] ORCHIDE® (Rolfe). 79 
7. M. venosum (Harv. MSS.) ; stem very short, with numerous 
slender flexuous roots ; leaves 2—4, oblong, bepress ricigiia at the 
apex, coriaceous, suberect or spreading g, 1-1] 7 in. long; racemes 
co arching, 1{-21 in. long, loosely EBvwaral s- bracts 
reate, minute, dechiiads 3 flowers small, white ; sepals spreading 
or recurved, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, J—} in. long, latera I 
broader than the dorsal at the base; petals linear- paaeng « acute, 
as long as the sepals ; lip onbieula at the bas und the wide 
orifice of the spur, with one or two small tobe vehal suddenly 
contracted into a narrow jaitbectate acute limb, about as long as 
the sepals ; ae. elongated, curved, gradually narrowed from the 
orifice, 14-2 in. long ; ¢ colunin short and stout ; rostellum beaked, 
projecting ees 3-fid, with linear shortly bearded side lobes, 
nd an acuminate smooth front lobe; pollinia broadly ellipsoid, 
attached by ‘filiform stipites to separate piers Sumer M. gracile, 
Bolus, 7“ Orch. Austr.-Afr. i. t. 56, not of Hi 
Coast Rraton: Ko a : Bid ; near Komgha, pine gan in MacOwan & Bolus, 
em “Norm uate soar bg 
N REeIo : without precise locality, Mrs. K. Saunders! Fannin, 
86! go someary Mos. ) p se 
8. M. filicorne (Lindl. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 206) ; stems 
.. and stout, with several rather stout flexuous roots below 
leaves 3-5, distichons: oblong or obovate-oblong, emarginate or 
Sbbisdly: 3 2. ‘lobed at the apex, coriaceous, 2—5 in. lon g, }—1 in. broad ; 
racemes several, arching or pendulous, sometimes suberect flexuous 
8 in. long, | many-flowered ; bracts ochreate, 1 in. long ; 
pedicels slender, over } in. long; flowers rather large, often secund, 
3~% In. long, dorsal rather broader than the lateral; petals similar 
to the lateral sepals but rather owes ah spreading or recurved ; lip 
lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, about as long as t 
petals, with a pair of minute basal teeth ; spur slender, cylindric, 
curved, 14-1} in. long, narrowly funnel-shaped at the mouth; 
column short and stout, somewhat constricted below the anther ; 
rostellum beaked, pr ojecting forwards, 3-partite, with the lateral 
lobes papillose and the middle lobe lanceolate and smooth ; pollinia 
broadly ellipsoid, attached by curved slender stipites to. separate 
lanceolate-oblong glands. Dré, ége, Zwei Pf. Documente, 124, 
le ri and 
Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 53. Epidendrum gf i 
Linn. f. Suppl. 407. Limodorum longicorne, Thunb. Prodr. Pl. Cap. 
3 (eael. syn.), and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 28. L, riage Sw. : 
need pai Bot. ii. 230. Eulophia longicornis, Spreng. Syst. 
ii, 7 zecum capense, Lindl. ar & Sp. Orch i 248 (eT ae 
flicornia Rooks f. in Walp. Ann 
“ne — phe without es my Sater Mrs, ris ! Mrs. are 
Recton: Knysna Div. a (Karratera) River, Knysna 
Shirg "Barkly! Ui ieaethags Div. :n nat gang Burchell, “eg! ! sac forests 
