Cynorchis. | . ORCHIDE (Rolfe). 143 
XXVI. CYNORCHIS, Thouars. 
Sepals subequal; dorsal erect, concave; lateral oblique and 
spreading. Petals entire, narrower than the dorsal sepal, and 
adpressed to its margin, forming a hood. Lip inferior, continuous 
with the column, spreading, usually broad, 3—5-lobed, produced at 
the base into a short or elongated spur. Column very short and 
broad; anther-bed erect or somewhat reclinate. Anther -cells 
oblong or fusiform, sometimes shortly bea 
Terrestrial — igre fasciculate fleshy roots, sometimes thickened into tubers 
leaves radical, few or solitary, oblong or elongated ; —_ ers small or medi oun 
epee asanced ¢ in lax, short or elongated racemes ; bracts small or narrow 
Distris. Species about 40, _ majority natives of the Mascarene Islands, with 
a few ‘Tro opical heb: 3 other in China and Japan, and one representative in 
extra-tropical South Africa 
C. compacta (Rolfe in Bot. Mag. t. 8053); plant 4-4 ft. 
high, with ovoid or fusiform tubers, 4-1 in. long; leaf solitary, 
2 short imbricate basal aes hs ; scape erect, 4~7 in. high, glabrous ; 
raceme many-flowered, compact or sometimes lax, 1-3 in. long ; 
bracts lanceolate or ov cate tennant acuminate, 2—6 lin. long; 
pedicels 4-9 lin. long; flowers small, white, with a few red-purple 
lateral sepals somewhat spreading, oblique, 2} lin. long; petals 
ovate-oblong, obtuse, slightly oblique, incurved beneath the dorsal 
sepal, 2 iin. long ; lip spreading, 4-9 lin. long, _lobes obovate- 
spur oblong or subclavate, somewhat curved, 14 lin. long; column 
very short, obtuse ; anther with parallel cells ; rostellum minutely 
3-lobed ; stigmas very short, included wit thin the cavity of the 
rostellum. Cynosorchis compacta, Reichb. f. in Flora, 1888, 149 ; 
— Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 495. 
ASTERN REGION: Natal; rocks near Emberton, 2100 ft., Wood, 5765! and 
pabon: precise docwlity, pow son ! 
