94 ORCHIDEA (Rolfe). | Schizochilus. 
Eastern Recion: Griqualand East; Insiswa Mountains, Schlechter! Natal ; 
stony slopes of the Drakensberg near Tugela ae Wood, ae ! marshy places at 
Oliviers Hoek, sources of Tugela River, 5000 ft., Allison, 
10. 8. Gerrardi (Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 205) ; plant 
—} ft. high ; leaves 4—8 , narrowly linear, acute, }—2} in. long, }—} in. 
Bare scapes 4-3} ft. high, with 4-6 narrow acuminate sheaths ; 
racemes elongate, narrow, 1—3 in. long, dense ; bracts lanceolate or 
ovate-lanceolate, very acuminate, }—} in. long; flowers Abnee ently 
ite ; als cone : 
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minutely apiculate, one-third as long as the sepals, 1-nerved ; lip 
two-thirds as long as the sepals, shortly 3- lobed, slightly pubescent, 
cine fleshy ; side lobes semiovate or broadly r ounded, obtuse 
t lobe ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse, twice as lo ng as the side 
faien’ ; dise with 3 short fleshy tubercles below the middle ; spur 
oblong, obtuse, about half as long as the limb; column suit and 
te tea hy page oblong, neat 4 in. long. Durand d Schinz, 
Cons Fl. Afr. 116. Brachycorythis Gerra rdi, Reichb. f. in 
en 1867, 116. Piisdlgere Gerrardi, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 
Beibl. 50, 12. 
Katanart Reaion: Transvaal; Devils Knuckles, near Spitz Kop, Lydenburg 
District, Bip nas 1385! 
ison i EGION: Griqualand East; Insiswa Mountains, Schlechter! Insiswa 
stiches to Umain klowa River, Krook in Herb. Penther, 660! Nata tal ; Ingoma, 
Gerrard, 1542! 
XIX. BARTHOLINA, R. Br. 
Sepals subequal, free, erect, narrow, somewhat herbaceous. Petals 
coloured, about as long as the sepals. Lip adnate to the column at 
the extreme base, produced into an acute spur; limb broad, 
spreading, deeply fimbriate-multifid. Column very short below the 
anther ; middle lobe of rostellum short, reflexed ; stigma not pro- 
duced ; anther-bed erect, very long ivrid narrow, concave, con- 
eons not distinct from the anther-bed; cells subparallel, 
adnate, apex elongate, adnate to the lobes of the rostellum ; pollinia 
sdlitary i in the cells, coarsely granular ; caudicles very long, dilated 
into glands at the apex, included within the lobes of the rostellum 
Dwarf terrestrial herbs, with ovoid-oblong tubers; leaves solitary, siti, 
spreading, reniform-orbicular and eniglesiedl ; flowers solitary at the apex of a 
short hairy sca 
DIstTRIB, ae 3, limited to extra-tropical South Africa, and chiefly 
Segments of the lip filiform throughout : 
Sepals 4—} in. long ; lip 3-1} in. long ... bes --- (1) pectinata. 
Sepals }-4 in. long; lip 4-Zin. long... nes ..» (2) lindleyana. 
Segments of lip shortly clavate at the apex kes --» (3) Ethel. 
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