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Monadenia. | ORCHIDE (Rolfe). 197 
4-6 lin. broad, with sheathing base ; scapes 3-5 in. high, with 3 or 4 
narrowly lanceolate acuminate s eat s; spike about 1 in. long, lax, 
6—14-flowered ; bracts narrowly Ceacaic, acuminate, }— } in. long ; 
ovate, obtuse, with inflexed apex, over half as long as the sepals ; 
lip linear- oblong, subobtuse, slightly dilated at the apex, 13-2 lin. 
long ; column very short ; anther somewhat reflexed, ice notched 
at the apex ; rostellum minute ; stigma rather large. Disa Basu- 
torum, Schlechter in Engl. Jah rb. xx. Beibl. 50, 17, and in Engl. 
ahrb, xxxi, 204, t. 3, fig. E-L. 
Katanart Recon: Basutoland ; heathy summits of the Drakensberg Range, 
10000 ft., Thode ! ‘ 
XXXII. AMPHIGENA, Rolfe. 
Sep tine a odd one superior, galeate, ascending, with a 
sag obtuse spur. Petals erect, included within the galea, some- 
what oblique, sosieaiaia on the front margin. Lip anticous, sessile, 
Anthe 
en On 
twisted; rostellum dwarf, destitute of side appendages; stigma 
cushion-shaped, aed in front of the rostellum. Capsule narrow. 
Terrestrial herbs, with rather large irregular es te and narrow grass-like 
leaves springing from a ii sal sheath, appearing before the ‘flowers and soon w wither- 
ing ; e in narrow cylindrical ste on slender wiry scapes 
bracts small and n 
DIsTRIB. ao 2, limited to the south-western corner of Cape Colony. 
culiar little genus, closely resembling Herschelia in es nd menses 
gland, but distinct from both i the unappendaged 
ith any other member of the Disa group 
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A peculiar i 
in the dicteae ollin 
rostellum, and bok me wi 
eeahen “= oblong or i ae Snap: with entire Fagor 
x long aristate-apic 
bout sepal heir ovate with crenlate taney, dis 
shortly apiculate 
. (1) tenuis. 
. (2) leptostachya. 
1. A. tenuis (Rolfe); plant }-1} ft. high ; stem slender ; leaves 
radical, few, disappearing very early (not seen), with several narrow 
basal sheaths; scapes }-1} ft. high, with several lanceolate 
acuminate sheaths; spikes 2-4 in. lon 1 h 
many-flowered ; bracts lanceolate, ‘long acuminate-aristate, about 
3 lin. long; pedicels 2-3 lin. long; flowers very small, greenish, 
