Bonatea. | ORCHIDE& (Rolfe). 141 
EastERN ee pose near the Tugela a 500 ft., Buchanan! Noods- 
rg, Buchana . Wood ! Drakensber, ar Newcastle, Wilms 8, 2284! 
Inanda, Wood, 970! aes hill above Pinetown "3900 ft., Wood, 946! and without 
precise ‘locality, Cooper, 3618 ! Sanderson, 172! Lange, 100 
Quite distinct from B. speciosa, Willd, ‘hitenstia sia Reichb. f.), to which 
Krinzlin has reduced it. 
. B. speciosa (Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 43); plant 1-3 ft. high, with 
wie leafy stems; leaves 8-10, sessile, amplexicaul, elliptic or 
bs ne to ovate, subobtuse or erat: 2—6 in. long, 1-2} in. 
green, exdept he stigmas and lower lobe of the petals, which are 
white ; dorsal sepal cucullate, elliptic-oblong, acute, 9-11 lin. long ; 
lateral sepals obliquely semiovate, acute, 12-14 lin. ‘long ; the inner 
Margin adnate to the lip for } in., then revolute ; petals 2-partite ; 
upper lobe falcate-linear, acute ; lowe lobe lanceolate Tinoar. acute, 
1} lin. long, curved at the apex ; fe 3-lobed to below the middle, 
aoling below, clavate. a nd compressed at the apex ; column 4 lin. 
long, apiculate ; rostellum cucullate ; front apiculate, recurved ; side 
lobes ong; stigmas | in. long, spathulate at the apex, the 
lower half adnate to the combined base of the lip, front lobe of 
petals and lateral sepals ; capsule oblong, 14-13 in. long. Lindl. Gen. 
gs Orch. 327 ; Bot. Mag. t. 292 6; Pod. Bot. Cab. t. 284; ; Bauer, 
z rim 
Vv. 89. Orchis speciosa, Linn. f. Suppl. 401 ; Thunb. Prodr. 4, and 
Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 5 ; Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. t. 451. Hahenaria Bonatea, 
Reichb. f. Otia Bot. Hamb. ii. 101 ; Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 
191, ee Ie. Orch, Austr.-Afr. ii. t. 44; se in Engl. Jahrb. xvi. 57, 
Oreh, Gen. et Sp.i. 179, excl. syn. Hare., and in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. 
Wien, xx. 2. H. robusta, N. E. Br. i S Gand Chron. 1885, xxiv. 307. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Masson! Thom, 32! 96! Moyle Rogers ! 
Coast Recon : org nie * near Darling, Peringuey in Herb. Bolus, 
13458, Cape Div.; Table M , Miss Kensit. Mossel Bay si ; near the 
landing-place at Mosse Bay, Bure 6231! thickets near Moss 
Katanart lr Ht Tra uk near —— MeLea in Herb, Bolus, 
3038; near Rustenbe ; 4400 ft., Miss Nation. 
Eastern REGIon: Padkik: near t e Coast he the Bashee River, Mrs. Barber, 
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