Brachycorythis.| ORCHIDE® (Rolfe). 85 
abe ree Gen. & Sp. Ore speed 3a gid glabrous 
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2 in. long, $-1} in. broad, upper gradually Aseteesncl into the e 
leafy bracts ; racemes dense, leafy, 4—9 in. long, with very numerous 
owers ; bracts sessile, spreading, Acer fepomiae ie a bad broadly lanceo- 
late, acuminate, 4-11 in. long; pedicels stout, $—j in. long ; flowers 
medium-sized, purple or lilac-purple, with a yellow keel and a few 
yellow spots on the lip; gps en broadly elliptic-oblong, sub- 
obtuse, somewhat cucullate, } long ; lateral sepals aap 
falcate- -ovate, ascending, pice Bove slightly longer than the dorsal ; 
petals obliquely ovate, subobtuse, as long-as the dorsal sega curved 
over the column at the a ex ; lip s suberect from the curved base, 
at the sides, nearly } in. long, base gibbous and concave ; disc with 
a narrow keel extending to the apex; column broad, } in. long. 
Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 149,151; Harv. Thes. Cap. i. 34, t. 53 ; 
Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 205, and Ic. Orch. Austr-Afr. i 
541, — in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. 
Wien, xx. 3; and & Se hinz, “Conspect iT, Afr wo lS, an- 
thera Seah, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. ‘Baal, 50, 12, 30. 
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Sim, 26. Komgha Div. ; near mouth of Kei River, "Plana agar 
HARI Recron: Transvaal; Mauch Berg, near at sak Be 5000- _— ft., 
Atherstone ! near Lydenburg, 5000 ft., Schlechter, 3922; Mac Mac, Mu 
Eastern Recion : Transkei ; Fort Bowker, Bowker, 28! 621! near abters 
worth, Mrs, Barber, 16! 28! Tembuland ; in grassy places, B Bolus. Griqualand 
East ; near mark er, ; 
River and Umsikaba River, 1000-2000 ft., Drége, 4569! near Umkwani River, 
200 ft., Tyson, 2670. Natal ; Bellair and. Fields Hill, 208 oe Sanderson, 211 ! 
Attercliffe, 800 ft., Sanderson, 482! near Durban, Ger rard, 739! Highlands, 
Gerrard, 1540! In anda, Wood, Br bee phate and without precise 
uchanan ! Gerrard, 606 ! Swaziland ; tain sides = ho 0 ft., oe peg 
ear Pinetown, 800 it., Wood, 540! Zaluland, Gerrard, 6 
2. B. Allisoni (Rolfe); a mie herb, about 9 in. high, 
with densely leafy stems ; leaves very numerous , sessile, somewhat 
spreading, ovate or Re REE acute or acuminate, lower 
i-1} in. long, }-} in. broad, SP decreasing into he some- 
what leafy bracts ; raceme den in. long, many-flowered ; 
scone Prise spreading, ovate or mrp ator acute or 
acuminate, in. long ; ore tout, }—! in. long; flowers 
dull bluish- a (Allison ; dorsal sepa fg Rate ee gaa 
subobtuse, somewhat concave, over { long ; lateral 
perely ovate, ascending and slightly niente ; “aubobtuse, “sb 
than the dorsal sepal ; petals obliquely, laste subobtuse, rather 
longer than the dorsal sepal, somewhat incu ved at the apex ; lip 
incurved from the base, suberect at the pas poder obtuse and 
