82 ORCHIDES (Rolfe). [Zeuxine. 
. Z. cochlearis (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. oad 50, 11); 
a terrestrial herb, with a tuft of thick brown hairy roots ; stems 
erect, terete, leafy, 2-12 in. high, with a few reduced ote at the 
base ; leaves numerous, suberect, linear-lanceolate, acute, amplexicaul 
at the base, }-2 in. long ; spikes oblong or narrowly ovate, 1-24 in 
long, dense-flowered ; bracts lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, eouniie 
nate, }—1 in. long ; flowers shortly pedicelled, about } in. long, white, 
with a yellow lip; ; sepals connivent, ovate- lanceolate, s ubobtuse, con- 
cave, the dorsal somewhat gibbous at the base ; petals adherent to the 
margin of the dorsal sepal, steer: obtuse, slightly shorter than 
oe about as long as the sepals, concave at the base, and with a 
oblong eal. margins incurved and irregularly crenulate ; 
ree short and broad ; “rostellum 2- partite with subulate acumi- 
nate lobes ; anther rounded ; ; pollinia pyriform, attached to a broad 
flattened stipes, iis G: to a small gland at the base. Bolus, Ic. 
Orch. Austr.-Afr. i. t. 58. 
EasteRN Recron : Natal ; marshy sandy places near the seashore red — mouth 
of the Umgeni River, near Durban, Schlechter, 3001, 3002! Wood, 5 
XIV. PLATYLEPIS, A. Rich. 
ls nae gH narrow, free, connivent round the column; 
ee united at the base into a very short chin. Petals narrow, 
slightly cere oh te dorsal sepal into a hood. Lip sessile at 
the ler of the ‘column, erect, channelled, broadly ventricose at the 
base, cohering with the margins of the column; limb very little 
dilated, idiasitteen poet the sepals. Column elongated, subterete ; 
anther- oblong, erect behind the rostellum. Anther erect, 
acuminate, as long as the rostellum; cells distinct ; pollinia 2, 
sectile or granular, adhering to the lobes of the rostellum. Stigma 
broad, papillose ; rostellum erect, 2-lobed, with lanceolate acuminate 
lob 
es. Capsules oblong, shortly contracted at the apex. 
Terrestrial sage yer creeping rhizomes and pepeding leafy stems ; leaves 
petiolate, oy ate-lanceolate, membranous ; flowers narrow, shortly 
pedicelled, perenne in eae spikes ; bracts ovate, 
Distrip. Species 6, four being natives of the Mascarene Islands, one Tropical 
African, and one South African 
1. P. australis (Rolfe in Kew Bulletin, 1906, 378); rhizome 
creeping ; stem ascending, leafy ; leaves petiolate, ovate, bigots mi- 
nate, membranous, 15—-20-nerved, #-1} in, long, 1-2 i 
petiole 11—2 in. long, dilated at the base into a tubular ahcancle 
sheath ; scapes erect, 6-12 in. high, with several distant spathaceous 
sheaths below ; racemes oblong or elongate, 2-44 in. long, many- 
