140 ORCHIDE (Rolfe). | Bonatea. 
3. B. saundersioides (Rolfe) ; aro se large oblong prises 
2 in. long, and leafy stems about 16 igh ; leave s 6-8, lin 
lanceolate, acuminate, about 6 in. iene 4 “i wm. benad; agh Noma 
upwards into bracts ; scapes with a few inant like sheaths ; racemes 
lax, few-flowered ; bracts ovate, acuminate, pallid, nearly half as 
long as the pedicelled ovary; flowers rather large, with green 
sepals and white petals and lip ; dorsal re cucullate, acuminate, 
lin. long ; lateral sepals deflexed, obliquely ovate, acute, rather 
longer than the dorsal ; petals 2-partite ; upper lobe linear, as long 
as the dorsal sepal and united to its margins ; lower lobe linear- 
lanosdlate, faleate, very acuminate, 1 i n. long ; ; "Lip 3-partite, with 
scarcely half as long as the cies: stigmas elon ae free from 
the lip, somewhat curved at the apex. "Ha benaria saundersioides, 
181. 
Krénzl. & Schlechter in Kranzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 
Katauari Recion: Transvaal ; Umvoti Creek, Barberton, 3300 ft., Culver, 30. 
Only known to me from the description. 
4. B. Boltoni (Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. 340); plant #-1} ft. 
high, with large oblong tubers and leafy stems; leaves 5-7, “peasile; 
linear-oblong to ovate, Lguinigersie — fleshy, 1-5 in. long, 
i oies and white ; dorsal sepal cucullate, sinnctted acute, 
6-7 lin. long; lateral "sepals obliquely semiovate, acute, with an 
acute tooth on the inner margin near the apex, about } in. long ; 
petals 2-partite ; upper lobe linear-lanceolate, acute, as il as the 
dorsal s sepal ; lower lobe linear-lanceolate, samewhat falcate, 7—8 lin. 
long ; lip 3-partite, ? in. long, with linear acute lobes ; ; front lobe 
e€ 
} g, apiculate ; rostellum cucullate, } in 
long ; front t lobe apiculate ; side lobes about 24 lin. long ; stigmas 
3 in. long, clavate at the apex, united to the combined base of the 
lip, petals = lateral sepals. Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. 
v, 88. aria Paige Harv. Thes. Cap. i. 55, sets oe in 
ia tan he 191; Krénazl. in Engl. roy 2. 
Bonatea, Schlechter in in ie Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 50, 32, md Pi Willd. 
HT. Bonatea, var. Boltoni, Bolus, Ic. Orch. Austr. Afr. ii t 
Coast as aoe sory Div. ; Karroo grounds of Uitenhage, Bowie! Albany 
Div. ; near Gra! peng ara. Glass é in Herb. Bolus, 6238 ; woods near Howi- 
sons Poo rt, Mae Kaffraria, Mrs. Hutton! Eastern Frontier of Cape 
Colony, Mrs. Barber, 899, fro 
KataHari REGION: Transvaal ; Barberton, Culver, 18! Houtbosch, among 
shrubs, Schlechter, 4381! 
