96 ORCHIDEA (Rolfe). | Bartholina, 
69 (ewel. syn. Endl.). B. pectinata, oe in net Reg. t. 1653 (ewel. 
all syn.) and in Hook. Com ~ Bot. M . 210; Drége, Zwei Pf. 
Documente, 121, not of R. B 
Coast Reaton: Uniondale Div. ; in Langkloof, between Keurbooms River and 
Kromme River, 2000-3000 ft., Drége, 1235b! Uitenhage Div. ; Uitenhage, 
collector t Port E Div. ; sandy pl: Port Elizabeth, 
remsley | Hallack rs. LH Spec iv Al 8 Dies Mill River, 12 miles from 
Grahamstown, Athersto: 23 ! r Graham 2200 ft., srg dyirie 1528 ! 
Bolton ! Kowie River, rey ey | seid witht pe se ecality Hutton 
Nearly allied to B. pectinata, R. B which it was sepa aaa by Reichen- 
bach, and chiefly differing from the mle nga by its smaller flowers 
3. B. Ethel (Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soe. xx. 472) ; plant 3-1 ft. 
high, with 2 ovoid tubers ; leaf solitary, horizontal, , sessile, orbicular 
with a broadly cordate base, ane or slightly convex, }—1} ong 
by about as broad ; scapes erect, $—1 ft. high, éoplinsly elias oh 
long spreading hairs, 1-flowe red ; fone spathacoous, oblong, su 
acute, pubescent, about } in. long ; ’ pedicels 1 —} in, long, puberulous ; 
flowers very large, with green sepals and pale lilac- blue petals and 
lip ; ; dorsal sepal cucullate, lanceolate, acuminate, puberulous, about 
2, long as the dorsal ; petals linear-lanceolate, narrowed and obtuse 
at the baer rather longer than the sepals ; lip spreading, fan-shaped, 
3-1} in. long, and di vided to below oO numerous 
filiform ‘Gepitebo® segments ; disc smooth; spur curved, narrowly 
conical, acuminate, r to nearly } in. long ; column clavate, apiculate, 
about } in. long. Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soe. xxv. 188, in Trans. 
S. Afr. Phil. Soc. v. 112, t. 3, and Orch. Cap. Penins. 112, 
Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v.68 ; Kranzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. 
i. 594, and in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, bo Bay 
Coast Reaton: Tulbagh ; Saron, 800 ft., ssa el Cape Div. ; under 
shrubs at the foot of a oy hi hill ov erlooking t the sea between Kalk Bay and Fish 
Hoek, 150 ft., Bolus, 4850! and in MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.- 
Afr., 500! sandy places in a Mos - . he ak erie ft., Bolus ; Simons 
olley-Dod, 846! Simon and without precise bpp 
$b Grey! Caledon Div. ; ar po Roca Pewee 2801 yp peed. Div. ; Knysna, 
rveme 
X. HOLOTHRIX, L. C. Rich. 
Sepals subequal, connivent, herbaceous, sometimes hairy. Petals 
longer than the sepals, narrow, entire or variously divided at the 
apex. Lip adnate to the base of the column, erect or spreading, 
concave or involute at the sides, divided into from three to many 
segments at the apex, produced at the base into astraight or curved 
spur. Column very short, usually auricled at the sides of the 
stigma; anther-bed erect, broad, concave or almost cucullate; 
connective of the anther not distinct from the anther- 
Anther-cells ovoid, adnate, distinct, included ; pollinia coarsely 
