110 ORCHIDE# (Rolfe). | Holothriz. 
secund ; bracts narrowly ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, 2-3 lin. 
long ; pedicels shorter than the bracts ; sepals ovate, acute, glabrous, 
14-14 lin. long, 1-nerved ; petals 24-3 lin. long, 5-fid to about the 
middle, oblong and somewhat dilated below, with filiform diverging 
somewhat unequal lobes ; lip as long as the petals, flabellate, with 
a narrow base, divided to the middle into 7 filiform diverging 
obes ; 
sepals ; column stout, about half as long as the sepals; capsule 
oblong, 4—5 lin. long. sais Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 588, and in Ann. 
Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xx. 2. 
Ast Region: Humansdorp nik ‘ BS apc 500 ft., among stones, 
Schlechter, 6015! Penther, 44. Que iar Div ar Queenstown, Mrs. Barber. 
bany Div. ; near Howisons Pont, 2000 3000 it., "South, 423! 
23. H. grandiflora (Reichb. f. Otia Bot. Hamb. ii. 119) ; plant 1 ft. 
bike stout ; leaves solitary, orbicular; scapes 1 ft. high, stout, 
pilose, wit th” a few ovate acuminate sheaths ; racemes 4 in. eas ; 
lobes ; spur conical, obtuse, curved, 24 lin. long; column broad, 
rather over 1 lin. long. Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 190; 
Durand & Schinz, ee aie Bt. Afr. v. 10: Schlechter in Ocst. Bot 
Zeitschr. 1899, 22; Kranal. ae Gen. et Sp. O91. oe opularia 
grandijiora, Sond. in Linnea, xix. 79. 
Coast REGION: regu Div. ; Uitenhage, Wiedemann ! near Olifants River, 
among stones, Zey 
T have only seen a single flower of this remarkable species, which was sent by 
9 der to Dr, Lindley, and is preserved in the Herbarium of the latter, now 
t Kew. 
24. H. Burchellii (Reichb. f. Otia Bot. Hamb. ii. 119) ; plant 4-14 
ft. high, with large ovoid tubers ; leaves 2, unequal, broadly ovate, 
orbicular or reniform, obtuse or subacute, glabrous, somewhat 
fleshy, {-3 in. broad ; scape }~—1} ft. high, pilose, with spreading or 
retrorse hairs, with several ovate-lanceolate acuminate sheat 
r s 6 in, long, dense, somewhat secund ; bracts ovate or 
raion ones: very acuminate, 2-3 lin. long; pedicels longer 
than the bracts ; flowers ime yellowish-green, the lower 3 lin. 
long, the upper more than twice as long owing to the much elongated 
lobes 0! sites petals and lip ; sepals ov ate or ovate-oblon ng, subobtuse, 
s, 1}-2 lin. long, l-nerved ; petals of the lower flowers 2-3 
lin. long, oblong, divided to about the middle into filiform 
more or less curved lobes, - the upper flowers } in. or more long, 
divided into 7 to 9 much ‘elongated filiform it about 4 times as 
