Aviceps.| ORCHIDE (Rolfe). 177 
of = generally few-flowered ; flowers relatively large; bracts leaf-like, 
ace Bee 
A single species, almost confined to the western and south-western 
let of Cape Colony 
. A. pumila (Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 346); plant 14-4 in. high ; 
‘es stout ; leaves 4—6 in a basal tuft, the lower somewhat spreading, 
ovate, acute, 3-13 in. long, 4-1 in. broad, somewhat fleshy, passing 
upwards into the bracts ; scapes 11-4 in. high, stout; spikes 
congested, very short, usually few- ee bracts leaf-like, ovate 
ovate lanceolate, ~ or acumin 2, 2 1} in pig gies 
e, f 
extends upwards; free os are 1 lin. oe ; sepals broad, 
obtuse, lateral pair falcate ; petals linear ; lip galeate, elliptic-ovate, 
acute, about } in. long, with slightly papillate nerves, yellow, with 
numerous transverse brownish streaks and spots ; pg very broadly | 
ii : 
saccate, about 1 lin. long; column curved, 5 long; stigma 
oblong or elliptic-oblong, 14 lin. long ; rostellum sales. ‘not half 
as long as the stigma; capsule oblong, 4—5 lin. long. rege, Zwei 
Pf. Documente, 68, 69. Satyrium pumilum, Thunb. Pr odr. 6, and 
Cap. ed. Schult. 19; Sw. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1800, 216; 
, ect. i a : 
et Sp. i. 656; Schlechter in Engl. “Jahrb. xxxi. 194. Diplecthrum 
pumilum, Pers. Syn. ii. 509. 
oast Recon: Piquetberg Div. ; Piquet Berg, near streams, stoma 
Tulbagh Div. ; moun ae near Tulbagh, Zeyher. Worcester Dw.5 untains 
near Hex River, T'ysor 
CENTRAL REGION : bac Div. ; abundant on moist ground near oer 1500 ft., 
Bolus, 7347! and in MacOwan - Bolus, He a reas orm. Austr. me Mas 
ESTERM ReEGIon: Little Namaqu raland ; zels Fonte ba Bi Roode Berg, 
3500-4000 ft., Drége, 2996a! near Lily Fontan, = ag foot of Ezels Kop, 4000- 
_Remarkable for the Stapelia-like flowers and the united sepals and petals with a 
inct sac at the base; the latter character apparently overlooked in previous 
descripti ions. 
XXX. PACHITES, Lindl. 
Sepals subequal, free, spr reading. Petals similar to the sepals or 
rather smaller. Lip superior, erect, undivided or lobed, without 
spur. Column erect, cylindrical below ; canned ‘obliquely 
directed towards the summit of the column ; anther-cells pendulous, 
Separate or approximate at ; pollinia 2, in separate cells, 
a with ascending caudicles ; glands terminal or deflexed in 
V.—SECT. III. N 
