Evota.| ORCHIDE (Rolfe). 269 
This genus is based upon Ceratandra section Evota, Li ndl., and is characterised 
eb a Pept dilated, not elongated arms of the rostellum and the large appen- 
the lip 
“Apoesags of ba with a eae of saps sepia decurved — 
. (1) bicolor. 
ef ee of tip without ge horn 
dage of lip very bar laterally dilated ... (2) harveyana. 
5s cebars of lip subquadrat --- (3) affinis, 
1. E. bicolor (Rolfe) ; plant 4-9 in. high; stem rather slender, 
flexuous; leaves radical and gran subere ct, lax, linear, acumi- 
nate, broader and sheathing at the base, 4-1} in. long : scapes 4—9 
in. high ; spikes 1-2} in. long, lax, 1—8-flowered ; bracts ovate or 
ovate-lanceolate, acai or shortly acuminate, concave, 3—5 lin. long ; 
pedicels 5-8 lin. long; flowers rather large, sepals light green, 
petals and lip light yellow, the latter with some red ‘stripes on 
the disc ; dorsal sepal elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, 5-6 lin. long ; 
lateral sepals spreading, obliquely and broadly ovate, apiculate, 
concave, 5—6 lin. long; petals obliquely cuneate-obovate, crenulate, 
$ in. long ; lip broadly unguiculate ; limb oblong and conduplicate 
at the base, divergently bilobed above or lunate, 4 lin. long, 5 lin. 
broad, with obtuse crenulate somewhat incurved ‘lobes a nd a broad 
truncate tubercle about the centre; appendage bipartite, falcately 
decurved, oblong, obtuse, 3 lin. lo ong, W with a pair of elongated 
decurved ‘apical horns ; column short ; ; arms of = rostellum rounded, 
ascending, very short ; anther-cells 4 lin. lon Ceratandra bicolor, 
rans. S. Afr. Phi 
20; Bol 
Soc. v. 190, t. 21, Orch. Cap. Penine: 190, ¢. 21, and in Journ, Linn. 
Soc. xx. 487, xxv. 209; Schlechter in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1° sér, vi. 
859; Krénzl. Orch. Ge en. et Sp. i. 870. C. harveyana, Sond. in 
Linnea, xix. 108, not of Lindl. xx. 220. 
SourH AFRICA: recon locality, Verreaux ! 
R uetberg Sete ; Twentyfour aay a ! Pb te Div, 
mountains near Tulbash, Zeyher! Pappe, 30! Ecklon & Zeyhe Paarl Div, : 
French Hoek, 2500 ft., Soke. 9296! Cape Div. : he: Pen especial] 
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—2400 ft. rchid Valley, and above Klassenbosch 
566! Diimmer, 967 ! senshi 2208! Schlechter, 95 ; Cape Flats, Ha arvey ! 
CENTRAL REGION : A oebaaiy ; between Witsen Berg and Skurfde Berg, 2000~ 
5000 ft., Zeyher, 1574 
2. E. harveyana (Rolfe); plant 4—9 in. high; stem moderately 
stout, flexuous ; leaves radical and cauline, saberect, lax, linear, 
acuminate, broader and sheathing at the base, $-1 in. long; oo 
4-9 in. high ; spikes 1-2 in. long, somewhat dense, 4—10- (ra me rely 1-) 
flowered ; bracts ovate, acuminate, concave, 4—6 lin. long ; pedicels 
4-5 lin. long; flowers rather large, sepals Hrowniahsavee, petals 
and lip yellow ; dorsal sepal elliptic-lanceolate, subobtuse, 44-5 lin. 
long ; j lateral sepals spreading, oe obtuse, concave, 5 lin. 
; petals obliquely cune renulate, with the front 
