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184 ORCHIDE (Rolfe). [ Orthopenthea. 
small, with white sepals and golden-yellow petals and lip ; dorsal 
sepal galeate, subglobose, very obtuse, with inflexed margin, sub- 
saccate steiner ype 5 ee Laped lateral sepals broadly ovate, very 
ng, 
included within the dorsal — lip blae or pbov rg obtuse or 
truncate, about + lin. long; column short; i eee refiexed ; 
rostellum erect, 3-lobed, with short linear side lobes ; ; stigma pul- 
vinate. Disa pichacdians, Lehm. ex Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. Phi 
7; Kranal, Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 762; Schlechter in 
Engl. Jak xxxi. 278, Penthea obtusa, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch, 361. 
sori AFRICA : big locality, tes. Mund. 
t Recron : Cape Div. ; moist banks on the eastern side of Table Mountain, 
se rahe summit, Brown! Harvey, 121! Bolus, 4846 ! ee clefts _ the lower 
plateau, 2500 ft., ’ Bolus, and in MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 168! 
Wolley-Dod, 1 1787 | near Wynberg Reservoir, Wolley Y- ote 3176! Caledon Div. ; 
Genadendal, 5000 ft., Galpin, 4621! 
8. 0. schizodioides (Rolfe); plant 5-8 in. high; stem rather 
slender; leaves radical, rosulate, 4—8, spr reading, lanceolate to 
ovate-lanceolate, acute or apiculate, narrowed at t the base, $-? in. 
long ; scapes 5-8 in. high, with several narrow acuminate sheaths 
above ; spikes ee 1—2-flowered ; —— acai acuminate, 
6-8 lin. long ; pedicels slender, 7-1 in ; flowers medium-sized, 
submembranous, ee with dull pure dine to the — and pe 
dorsal sepal galea e, broadly ovate, subobtuse or acute, 5-6 
long, emg ae behind ; lateral sepals elliptic-ovate, subacute 
about 7 lin. long; petals oblong, obtuse, somewhat inc 
— about 3 lin. long; column short; anther piper 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. oe. wll Tos Orch, ae a 85 ; Sen 
Schinz, Conspec t. Fl. Afr.v. 107 ; Kranzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 790 5 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxi. 276. 
C Recion: Swellendam Div a mountain peak near Swellendam, 
a 7323 ! sie liecs ee: Puspus Valley, Z. cklon & Zeyher, mes clefts on the 
berg Range, near Zuurbraak, 3300 ft., ‘Schlechter, 2045! 
9. 0. rosea sion plant 4—8 in. high ; stem rather stout ; leaves 
radical and cauline, 3-4, spreading, spathulate or elliptic- oblong, 
obtuse or oibesii narrowed below w, 14-43 in. long; scapes 4-8 in 
long, with several narrow acute sheaths above; spikes broadly 
oblong, 1-2 in. long, somewhat dense, few- to many-flowered ; bracts 
lan or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 1-3 in. long ; pedic icels 
2-} in. long; flowers medium-sized, light rose-coloured, delicate 
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