108. ORCHIDE (Rolfe). | Holothrix. 
flowers 3-4 lin. long; sepals ovate, very acuminate, glabrous, 1} lin. 
long ; l-nerved ; petals Sales aroha very acu sninhte: about 2 
lin. long, l-nerved ; lip narrowly flabellate, with a cuneate base, 
3—4 lin. long, membranous, with about 7—9 short broad apical lobes 
or teeth ; spur linear or very narrowly conical, obtuse, about half 
as long as the limb ; Ne broad, half as long as the sepals. Bolus 
in ete Linn. Soc , 190: Dura nd & Schinz, Conspect, Fl. Afr 
v. ; Schlechter i in Dak Bot. Zeitschr. 1899, 18; Kral. Orch. 
ak, ia Sp. i. 573, 
Coast Reeton: Albany Div. ; mountain rocks n ear pees a eer {t., 
Glass, Schinland. Bedford Div.; Kaga Berg, Weale in Herb. MacOwa ocken 
strom Div.; Kat Berg, near erect; Scully in Herb, Bolus, 6204! phage 
iv.; Queenstown, Wolley-Do 
Eastern Recion: Natal ; Lion River, 3000 ft., Mrs, Fannin, 160 ! 
. H. aspera (Reichb. f. Otia Bot. Hamb. ii. 119) ; plant about 
th in. “high, with 2 large ovoid tubers ; leaves 2, une qual, orbicular, 
obtuse or subacute, somewhat fleshy, glabrous be slightly pilose, 
2—} in. long; scapes 4 in. high, somewhat stout, pilose or villous 
about 5-fiowered ; bracts ovate, sonra puberulous, 1-14 lin. 
long ; A aaa longer than the bracts; flowers somewhat fleshy, 
about 24 lin. long ; sepals ovate, obtuse, somewhat concave, glabrous, 
about 1 lin, long, l-nerved ; petals broadly triangular-ovate, with a 
broad basal tooth in front, ‘subscate: 2 lin. long, obscurely 1-nerved ; 
lip about 24 lin. long, unequally 5-lobed to about the middle ; the 
central lobe linear, obtuse, the 2 lateral pairs oblong, obtuse ; disc 
covered with crystalline papille; spur broadly oblong, obtuse, 
spect. Fl. Afr. v 
partly ; iad, Oreh: Glen et Sp. i. 587, and in Ann. Naturhist. ay 
mus. Wien, xx. 2. Bu cculina aspera, Lindl. in Hook. Comp. B: 
Mag. ii. 209 ; Drége, Zwei PA. Documente, 95. 
ee Page Clanwilliam Div. ; near Oliphants River, Penther, at 
Fiche cstenertr Sip Namaqualand ; between Mieren Kastee 1 and Zwart 
er, r 100 -» Drége, 827 6b! Aspunals Bergen, 1000 ft., among 
—— pian cas Behloedte er). 
nly seen Drége’s original specimens, some seers cited as belonging 
“ee nu Sesicokbe: being now referred to H. confusa, Rol 
20. H. multisecta (Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 170, 190, fig. 
oa plant {-1 ft. high, with large ovoid tubers ; leaves 2, unequal, 
orbicular, obtuse, rather fleshy, pilose and ciliate ae in 3 scapes 
3-1 ft 
pon ; racemes 2-34 in. long, dense, secund ; bracts ovate, acute, 
ngly hirsute or hispid with pote hairs, about 2 lin. long ; pedicels 
peti than the bracts ; flowers 2-3 lin. long; se ovate, sub- 
acute, ciliate, ee lin. long, enceved; petals 2-3 lin. long, 3-fid to 
