274 ORCHIDE (Rolfe). [ Pterygodium. 
concave, 4 lin. long; lip reniformly obovate, cuneate at the base, 
bilobed ‘above, 4 lin. long, 6—9 lin. broad, with a crenulate margin ; 
u 
fusiform-oblong, about 5 lin. long. Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 
23; Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 367 ; Drége, Zwei Pf. Documente, 98 ; 
Krauss in Flora, 1845, 306, and Fl. Cap- “ne Natal. 158 ; Sond. in 
Linnea, xx. 220; Bolus in Trans. Ws ~~. hil. Soe. v. 186, t. 22, 
fig. 22, Orch. Cap. Penins. 186, t. 22, fig. 22, and in Journ. reve 
: r. 
Schlechter in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1 sér. vi. 812; Krénal. Oreh. Gok 
et Sp. i. 859, and in Ann, Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xx. 10. Ophrys 
caffra, Thunb. Prodr. 2. 
Arrica: withou ere RE Masson! Brown! Forster! Harvey, 146! 
: Malmesbury Div. near Groene Kloof, Bolus, 3936 ; near Darling, 
Coa 
100 ft. Ecadeckien 5341! Penther, ‘eam Paarl Div. ; — Paarl, Thunberg ! 
ween Paarl and Lady Grey Railva Lecilag under 1000 ft., Drége, 1254a! 
Won 
1254d! Cape Div. ; Cape Flats berg, 50-100 ft., Ecklon & Zeyher, Webb, 
Krauss, 1322, Bolus, 3936 | ! Sehlechter, bg oy Table Mountain, below 500 ft., Heklon 
Zeyher, 72! Bolus 6! Bergius; Muizen Berg, 800 ft., MacOwan & eters 8, 
Herb. Norm, Austr. Afr. 176! Red Hill, Wolley-Dod, 1799! pie nge Kloof, n 
the Waterfall, Wolley-Dod, 2128! near sore Bi SN? haar 2 near Trae 
rg, Bolus, 3936! Simons Bay, Wrig Mou Ecklon, Pappe, 
Bunbury. Stellenbosch ag Hottentots olla Mountain, , Pape, 23! Prior! 
George Div. ; near George, B ! Knysna Diy. ; near Knysna, Wallich. 
CENTRAL ieenigin Ceres Div. ; ge Range, Heaoe 
3. P. acutifolium (Lindl. ur & Sp. Orch. 366); plant }$-1} 
or rarel 2 ft. high; stem stout, somewhat flexuous ; leaves 3-4, 
cauline, suberect, oblong- Fp acute or apiculate, the lower 
3-5 or rarely 7 in. long, the upper much smaller; scapes }— 1} or 
rarely 2 ft. high; spikes 14—4 in. Toad, rather dense and often 
many-flowered ; bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or shortly 
acuminate, 7-10 lin. long; pedicels 5-7 lin. long ; ; flowers large 
deep golden-yellow ; “dorsal sepal ovate-lanceolate, subobtuse, sab: 
concave, with a prominent rounded sac behind the sharply reflexed 
apex, 5-6 lin. long; lateral sepals widely spreading, obliquely 
ovate, shortly acuminate, subsaccate at the base, 5—6 lin. long; 
tals cohering with the dorsal sepal into a spreading limb, very 
oblique, broadly semiobovate, acute at the inner angle, rounded or 
subauriculate at et rte 6-7 lin. long; lip sharply sat 
broadl ate, acute, very undulate, 3 lin. lon 
appendage erect, triangula-oblong, with a recurved subobtuse el 
80 crenulate at the margin, 4 lin. long; column 
short ; arms of the i ead ascending, oblong, obtuse, 2 “jin. lon ng ; 
capsule oblong, about 8 lin. long. Drége, Zwei Pf. Documente, ae 
" ¥ 7 vA : oc. V. 1 : 
rn. Linn. Soc. xxv. 
nz, Conspect. t. Fl. Afr. v. 116; Schlechter in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 
