— 
Pachites. | ORCHIDEA (Rolfe). Tg 
linear, acuminate, suberect, }—3 in. long; pedicels 4-5 lin. long 
flowers lilac-purple, with the sone and side lobes of the lip purple ;. 
sepals lanceolate, acuminate, somewhat spreading, 5-6 lin. long. 
I-nerved ; petals ‘linear, acute, 4-5 lin. long, margins slightly 
incurved, l-nerved ; lip erect, 3-lobed, as long as the petals ; front 
: ae lin. : f 
rostellum horseshoe-shaped, with erect arms; stigma horseshoe- 
shaped, cushion-like. Krénzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 722; Schlechter 
in Engl. Jahrb. xxxi. 199. 
oast Reaion: Cape Div. ; in a 7 place on Muizen Berg, see ft , rare, 
Bodhin in eee Beles, 7071. Caledon Div. ; Zwart Berg, 2000 ., Bodkin in 
Herb, Bolus, 6970 ! Houw Hoek Mo cation Bodkin. Bredasdor ne Se 3 mountains 
near mee River, 1000 ft., Sehlec hter, 9624! 
XXXI. ORTHOPENTHEA, Rolfe. 
Sepals free, odd one inferior, expanded and horizontal or hooded 
and reflexed, concave, saccate or with a short spur. Petals reflexed, 
small or somewhat exserted, more or less adnate to the column at 
the base. Lip superior, sessile, oblong, narrow, or trowel-shaped 
or broadly elliptical, without a spur. Column short. A) the 
horizontal or reflexed, 2-celled ; cells distinct and parallel ; pollinia 
solitary in each cell, granular, attached by short saiadisles to two 
distinct glands, seated at the apex of the rostellum. Ovary straight, 
or twisted in O. elegans ; Sire erect, emarginate, obovate, bifid 
or trifid, with short side arms; stigma cushion-like or somewhat 
concave in O. fasciata. Cigale ‘cylindrical or oblong. 
‘Terrestrial herbs, with simple sessile veberts leaves gens or radical, 
a aah sy reduced and sheath-like ; flower medium-size d, usually produc fy 
rr spikes, rarely subsoli itary ; gee usually rane sheathing in 
Distrrp, Species 10, almost entirely south-western. 
h like Penthea, Lindl., in habit, but os in having inverted flowers as 
. Pachite Lindl., and a di fferen tly-s' shaped do sepal. It includes Disa section 
‘ia, Lindl., aaa section Bara: arpa, + ele Lindley also included some of 
the cae in his genus Penthe 
Odd sepal more or less concave or subsacca’ 
Leaves narrow ou np aden aa a more or less 
elongate wits ac 
ves 1-3 in. Tong flowers medium-sized and 
—. numerou 
st x ‘spas oe scohloa: — flat and 
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