Platanthera.] ORCHIDE (Rolfe). 89 
Kananart Reaion: Transvaal ; Stryd Poort, Makapans Berg, =“ 5390 ! 
near Bititeoin’, 4700 ft., “ppgerearenel 4349 ; Middelbu burg, Hewitt, 
EasTERN REGION ; Natal ; betw — Maritzburg and Bi shopstoe, ‘2000 ft., 
Sulerson, 1046! Inanda, Wo od, 7 r Umkomanzi River, Krook, Penther, 
. 0; a Estcourt, A7vook, Feuken . “973, ae without a locality, Mrs. 
. Saune 
Also in Tropical Africa, in the Mozambique District. 
2. P. macowaniana (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 50, 12) ; 
an erect stout glabrous herb, 4—8 in. Ligh, with very leafy stems 
broad base, acuminate, }—} in. long ; pedicels rather stout, }— } in. 
flowers small, pale green, with brown sepals and a light 
eirler than pee Biles. asus front lobe ovol Lo long, 
obtuse, rather i than the — colum 
Bolus, Ie. Orch. Austr.-Afr. i. t. 59. Beach ycory es macowaniand, 
Reichb. f. Otia Bot. Had ii. 104; Krénzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 545, 
and in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xx. 3; Durand é Schin, 
E. 
Conspect. Fi. ee 5. Habenaria rancho 
in Gard. Chron. 1889, v. 168; Bolus in Journ nn. Soe. 3 XXxv. ae 
Gy api gg she ae” ‘Schlechter in Vorkandl, Bot. Ver. 
andenb, xxxv. 46. 
EGION : Riversdale Div. ; slopes of the Langeberg Range near Riversdale, 
1000 rf , Schlechter, 1900! Knysna Div.; grassy mou ve near Knysna, 1000 ft., 
Newdiyate in MacOwan Herb. Norm. Austr. -Afr., 1733! eh Schlechter, 
ra ee oh Silver Ete enther, 55. Albany Div. ; ie athe ee ee 
r, co 
Column short; rostellum broad, entire, elevated and subgaleate ; 
stigma near the base of the column, elevated, fleshy and concave. 
Anther erect or slightly reclinate, broad ; cells elevated, parallel, 
adnate at the apex to the short side lobes of the rostellum ; pollinia 
in separate cells, coarsely granular ; caudicles short ; glands distinct. 
Capsule ovoid or oblong, short, straight. 
Glabrous ss panogyeme erbs, yee tiger oe _ leaves radical or sub- 
radical, small or narrow, the u reduced to short sheaths; flowers gone’ 
