Brachycorythis. | ORCHIDE (Rolfe). 87 
the apex; lip suberect from the curved base, } in. long ; limb 
broadly dilat ed, suborbicular, apiculate or cuspidate, minutely 
crenulate, somewhat reflexed at the sides ; base slightly gibbous and 
propre: ; disc with a slender keel extending to the apex ; column 
broad, } in. Wed Bolus in Journ. res Soe. xxv. 205, and Ie. Orch. 
Austr. Are, t. 63; Durand & Sch fh Come Afr 115 
* aSehgie Teens Schlechter in Engl. J ahrb. xx. Beibli 50, 6, 30 ; 
Krénzl. Orch. Gen, et Sp. i. 550, and in Ann. Naturhist Hofmus. Wien, 
ast Recton: Bedford Div.; summit of Kaga Berg (not Kat Berg), 3200 ft., 
MacCvany 1 spy at 3000 ft., Hutton! British Kaffraria ; mountain sides, 
ry 
KALAHARI Bed ION: Orange River Colony ; pe el at foot and near summit of 
Quaqua Mountain, Witzies Hoek, Thode, 51! Transvaal; Botsabelo, 5500 ft., 
Schlechter, 4062! in marshes, Houtbosch (Woo sh) ir teas 8800 ft, 
Schlechter, 4447 ! Rehmann, 5848! Belfast, Burtt-Dav "y, I 
Eastern Recion : Tembuland ; Xalanga 4800 ft. 5 aap near Maclear, Bolus ; 
near Umtata, Schlechter, 6343 pe Jand ~~ near Kokstad 5000 i Tyson, 
1083! a sed in MacOwan & Bolus, b. Nor ustr.- ‘rook, Penther, 
218 ; Newmarket, Penther, 114 ; haath: Penther, 176. Na a): sources of Tugela 
River at Oliviens Hoek, 4000 ft., Allison ! 
B. virginea (Rolfe) ; a slender suberect herb, about } ft. high, 
ae a single radical lea e and an ovoid tuber at the base ; leaf 
what flexuous, senators with one lanceolate acuminate sheath about 
the middle; rac eme short, about 3-5-flowered ; bracts ovate, 
acuininate, about n. long; flowers with white sepals, and pin 
petals and lip, the latter with a green central nerve and base ; 
dorsal sepal ovate-oblong, subacute, over 4+ in. long, 3-nerved ; 
lateral sepals somewhat oblique and spreading, otherwise similar to 
the dorsal ; petals broadly ovate, subobtuse, about 3 as long as the 
sepals, somewhat oblique at the base, 2-nerved ; lip suberect from 
the curved base, two-thirds as long as the sepals ; limb broadly ovate, 
subentire subobtuse, 3 iin. broad, hase somewhat gibbous and concave, 
somewhat dilated at the sides ; disc with an obtuse keel at the base ; 
column =a and broad. Platanthera virginea, Bolus, Ic. Orch. 
Austr.-Afr. i. t. 60. 
LAHARI ReGion: Orange River Caley 3 sides and summit of the Mont-aux- 
Source, 8000-9000 ft., regis i, 1982! 
STERN REGION: Natal ; n Reenans Pass, 6000-7000 ft., Schlechter. 
anomalous species, which Dr. Bol ferred somewhat Fgeeuite to 
1 ee tg It, however, agrees better with Brockpuisoer: in floral structu 
