84 ORCHIDE (Rolfe). | Pogonia. 
lanceolate, acuminate, about ? in. long ; petals rather broader than 
the sepals, otherwise similar ; “lip strongly 3-lobed, nearly as long as 
the sepals, cuneate at the base; side lobes broadly oblong, generally 
obtuse or rounded at the apex, erect ; front lobe subulate-oblong, 
acute, longer than the side lobes, somewhat recurved ; 
clavate, very slender at the base, about + in. long , suddenly dilated 
at the apex ; anther incumbent, hinged at the apex of the column ; 
pollen granular ; capsule ovoid or ellipsoid, aaa “agsiaret about 
4 in. long. Sete in Journ. Linn, Soc, xxv. 187, and Ie. pie 
Austr.-Afr 12; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. FL. Afr. v. 59; 
Schlechter é in "Bngl: Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 50, 29. 
a awart Recon: Transvaal; hill tops near eh ap Mine, Barberton, 
0 ft., Culver, 57! Mundt’s Ten, near Pretoria 0 ft., Schlechter, 3704! 
‘aaa esberg, Zey eyher, 1584! Aapies River, foot of iigaleatery Range, 4800 ft., 
Schlechter, 3663 
XVI. BRACHYCORYTHIS, Lindl. 
epals free, connivent or the lateral ultimately spreading ; lateral 
oblique, often broader than the dorsal, som nd 
ascending. Petals usually oblique and similar to the dorsal sepal 
or narrower, incurved ov he colur ip continuous with the 
er er somewhat reclinate 
apex inferior, adnate to the short side lobes of the rostellum ; 
pollinia g pistialar + caudicles short ; glands large, contiguous ; stami- 
nodes tities ey rounded or auriculate. Stigma pulvinate, 
lobe erect between the anther-cells, oo plicate ; side lobes 
short, suberect. Capsule narrowly oblo 
rrestrial, usually very leafy herbs, ipnrs Psoplieter fusiform or ovoid tubers ; 
sais ssile, generally numerous and in wipe Be decreasing upwards 
into the bracts cts ; sitkes or racem i ra and pos ceed vered, rarely 
somewhat lax ; bracts ovate or obakes VaonoockAtt afters somewhat leafy. 
Species about 22, exclusiv rf Continental African, 4 of which occur 
within o our 1x Kimita, 3 of them being endem 
Leaves cauline, very numerou 
Whole plant enearet or neck 
sepa 44 in. long ; bracts + ni in. ee ; lateral 
Is Fin. ‘long... 
(1) ovata. 
Leaves ete in. rg ; bracts ii in. Tongs ; lateral ae 
sepals 3 in (2) Allisoni. 
Whole plant very ‘hee ae ae os ... (3) pubescens, 
Leaves radical or subradical, few : 
Leaves 2 or 3, oblong or lanceolate, suberect ... -.. (A) Tysoni. 
Lower leaf ovate, spreading or recurved ae -.. (5) virginea, 
