Penthea. | ORCHIDE (Rolfe). 209 
pedicels 3-1 in. long; flowers rather large, bright yellow ; dorsal 
sepal nearly flat, broadly ovate or cordate-ovate, shortly acuminate, 
6-8 lin. long ; spur obsolete ; lateral sepals narrowly ovate from a 
broad oblique base, with a narrow falcate acuminate apex, 6-8 lin. 
long ; petals falcate-oblong, acute, with a rounded basal auricle in 
long ; column 4 lin. long ; anther incurved, acuminate, furnished 
with a narrow petaloid wing on each side ; rostellum erect, 3-partite, 
with oblong divaricate side lobes; front lobe triangular, acute, 
concave ; stigma pulvinate. Dré e, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 74, 82, 
89; Krauss in Flora, 1845, 306, and Beitr. Fl. Cap- at Natal. 158 ; 
Sond. in Linnea, xx. 220. Ophrys patens, Linn. f. Suppl. 404 ; Murr. 
Sy yst. Veg. xiv. 814. Serapias patens, Thunb. Prodr. 3. oe patens, 
2h # . 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxi. 229. D. tenuifolia, Sw. in Vet. Acad. 
Handl. Stockh. 1800, 214; Bolus in Trans. S. my Phil. Soc. v. 157, 
Orch. Cap. Penins. 157, and Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 199. 
Sout Arrica: without locality, Masson! Roxburgh! Brown! Hesse, 13! 
Sieber! Bunbury! Grey ! aca en i ibold. 
Coast REGION: oncige rn ; Ezels Bank, 3000-4000 ft., Drége, 1232 c. 
gga ee r Pikeniers * Kloot 1000-5000 ft., Zeyher, 1580! Tu ulbagh 
v.; near Tulbagh ‘Waterfall Ecklon & Zeyher! Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, 
300° 4000 ft. "Drege, 13 32b! Ca ap. Div. ; Table Mountain, 800-3500 ft., Burchell, 
rvey! Prior! Drége, 1232a! Ecklon, 343! Bolus! Wolley-Dod, 882! 
Relunann n, 570! Kassner, Schlechter, 145, 187 ; Muizen Berg, 1500 ft., Bolus, 3913 ! 
Tri ° : 
men! Schlechter, Kassner ; Stein Berg, Wolley-Dod, 2112b. Caledon Div. ; 
Berg, near Caledon, Bowie! Genadendal, Prior! Baviaans Kloof, Krauss; 
teenb River, Mu ndam n 
Langeberg Ra = D he Be 
Burchell, 7055! George Div. ; near George, 650 ft. Schlechter, 3868 | plains at 
Woodville, 800 ft., Galpin, 4619! 
P. filicornis (Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 361); plant 4-10 in. 
high: stem rather stout ; leaves radical and cauline, numerous, ate 
erect, linear or narrowly lane pipeecrte acute, narrowed upwa 
into the bracts, }-1} in. long ; scapes 4-10 i n. high, with narrow 
acute sheaths above; spikes short, loosely saheocyinbose, 2-8- wide 
pects lanceolate, acute or acuminate, }—I in. long ; pedicels 5-1 in. 
; flowers rather large, pink, gree with purple, and the ‘lateral 
Ae suffused with purple ; dorsal sepal eat obovate-spathulate, 
apiculate, 6—8 lin. Ong ice reduced a nearly obsolete sac ai 
auricle in ans 3—4 lin. long 
col 4 lin. | 
injelike wionnaags on each side ; rostellum ee _ with 
ivari 1 _ front lobe shorter and concave; stigma 
subdivaricate cue obes ; nt PA. Documente, 82, 84, 114; Sond. in agen 
