80 ORCHIDE® (Rolfe). | Mystacidium. 
fhou 
Kloof a nd Olifants Kloof, Drge| fies it Zeyher | Port Elizabet h rity: 
ur’ iv.; Lushington 
oods near 
MacOwan, 312! ‘ m on ms r 
Hutton! and without precise locality, Atherstone, 54! Bowie ! Rog Williamstown 
Div.; King Williamstown, Brownlee! Peddie Div. ; Pian River Hills, near 
ers Dri i i er, 3617 
Somerset Div. ! 
Eastern Reaion: Pondoland ; St. Johns Rive er, Drége. Natal; Tugela River, 
shasta 1816! Mudd! Source of Nototi River, Gerrard! Bish hopstowe, en 80M, 
1001! and without precise locality, Sanderson, 504! Trimen! Buchanan! 
9. M. gracile (Harv. Thes. Cap. ii. 48, t. 174) ; a leafless epiphyte, 
with very short stems and numerous slender flexnous roots ; scapes 
somewhat arching, very slender, 1-13 in. long, racemes one-sided, 
lax, 4—8-flowered ; ig ke obliquely enp-shaped, about {1 in, long ; 
pedicels slender, 1 in. long ; sepals and petals subconnivent, ovate- 
lanceolate, subobtuse, about } in, long ; lip ovate- 1 Ae ._ subobtnse, 
about as long as the petals, with very short side lo 
of the spur; spur curved, } in. long, funnel-shaped _ on the mouth, 
Coast Recon : Bedford Div.; Kaga Berg Ra ange, in sion forest, 4500 cba 
West 5 in sgn Hance, 16338 ! Stutterheim Div. ; Klaklazele Berg, Cooper, 271 
Reeion: Natal ; Dargle Farm, Mrs, Fannin, 95! foe wink ee 
alt, perm rson ! 
us (Journ. Linn. Soc, xxv. 187) includes Mystacidium Meiraz, Bolus 
(aera Meira, gree f. in Flora, 1885, 540) as doubtfully South African, 
but it was described in a paper on Comoro Island Orchids 8, aan probably came 
from there, thengh no locality is give 
XIT. CORYMBIS, Thouars. 
Sepals ore petals narrow and approximate below, somewhat 
readi 
sp in ve. Lip erect from the base, linear, channelled, 
dilated at the apex into a ode recurved limb, Column elongated, 
e terete, clavate at the apex, terminating in two erect lobes or 
auricles; an bed short. Ant ct, narrow, acuminate, 
about as long as the column; cells ¢ contiguous ; pollinia granular, 
affixed to a subulate stipes, with a peltate gland, descending behind 
the rostellum. Stigma broad, often thickened at the lower 1 margin ; 
rostellum erect, acuminate, bifid after the removal of the pollinia. 
Capsule linear, subterete, crowned with the column and the remains 
of the persistent perian rianth. 
