Orthopenthea. | ORCHIDE& (Rolfe). 185 
flesh coloured or sometimes nearly white; dorsal sepal galeate, 
broadly ovate, obtuse or subacute, obtusely saccate behind, 4-6 i a 
long; lateral sepals broadly ovate-elliptic, obtuse or subac 
4—6 lin. long ; petals 2-lobed, about 2} lin. long, front lobe sedis 
ovate, obtuse, ck lobe triangular, fhivkened and clavate at the 
xxv. 202, and Ic. Orch. Austr.-Afr. ii. t. 64; Durand d Schinz, 
Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 107 ; Krénzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 762 ; Schlechter 
in Engl. Jahrb. xxxi. O77. 
SoutH AFRICA : poe egpenv de ve gius, Mund, Hesse! Villet! 
AST Region : Cai iv. ae ridges and clefts of rock on Table 
Mountain, 1500-3200 ft., Bea Hors Bolus, 4562! and in MacOwan & 
Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 319 ! Seeher 198 ; ’ Muizenberg, 1 400 ft., toma 
Orange Kloof, Wolley-Dod, 392! Caledon ; Ho ouw Hoek Mountains, Bolus 
‘Seinbdendal: 3200 ft., Galpin, 4623 ! 
10. 0. Telipogonis eto plant 2-5} in. high ; stem somewhat 
stout; leaves radical and cauline, suberect or arcuate, linear, 
Ob tie eng 1-4 in. long, re uced upwards into. the bracts ; ee 
thie acuminate, 3-6 in. — ; pedicels 3-4 lin. long ; Assia 
pee heits half as long as the limb, shedeend at the margin ; “spur 
conical, obtuse, abot half as long as the limb ; sities sepals Ges, 
acute, about 3 lin. long, with a long slender bristle at or sometimes 
behind the apex ; petals nena unequally bilobed at the apex, with 
the upper lobe ppmueng! 14 lin. long; lip linear-lanceolate, 
acuminate, 2 lin. long; column short; anther reflexed; ros- 
tellum suberect, Sobed. ‘with Pips like ‘side lobes, and a much 
longer triangular ¢ concave fro t lobe; stigma pulvinate. cae 
Soc. xxv. 204, an d Ie. Oreh. mets 2%, ii. t. 70; Durand & ‘Schinz, 
Conaioee Fil. Afr. v v. 108; aan pri Gen. et Sp. i. 779; Schlechter 
in Engl. Jahrb. xxxi. 267. phi by fg. 
ast REGION: Paarl or Worcester Div.; mountains about Bains Kloo 
f, 
Wellington District, 2300 ft., Schlechter, 9165 ! Cape Div. ; summit of Table 
M ie in rock crevices, 3500 ft., Bergius! Miss Rensit i in Herb. Bolus, 9355 ! 
11. O. fasciata (Rolfe); plant 3-6 in. high; stem rather stout ; 
leaves cauline, 4-6, spreading, ovate from a sheathin g base, acute 
or acuminate , limb. 4—} in. long, decreasing irae site the bracts, 
leaf-cheaths barred with red ; scapes 3-6 in. high, with short ovate 
sheaths above; spikes corymbose, 1-6- cad: bracts sti ieas 
