Pterygodium. | ORCHIDE& (Rolfe). 275 
1* sér. vi. 815; Krénal. he Gen. et Sp. i. 856, and in Ann. 
Naturhist, Hofmus. Wien, xx. 
Arrica: without aed Gronovius! Brown! Leibold, Villet! Webb! 
Zeyher, 1578, partly Harvey, 
Malmesbury Dw. ; near Groene Kloof, Bolus. Tulbagh Div. 
ied ess lied to P. Sherngne Bree cramps by its more robust habit 
mo cute leaves, and (according to Bolus) large deep golden- ‘yellow 
> li “tt € sled mest sa Ea peat er altitude and flowers later than P. catholicum 
The two have been mixed under Zeyher, 1573. 
4. P. catholicum (Sw. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1800, 218); 
plant 4-1 ft. high; stem moderately stout, somewhat flexuous ; 
leaves 2 or rarely 3, distant, sessile, sheathing at the base, some- 
aig patra: oblong or elliptic-oblong, subobtuse or apiculate, 
the r 2—5 in. long, upper much smaller; scapes 4-1 ft. high ; 
pets 12 i in. long, loosely 3—8-flowered ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 
shortly acuminate, 5-7 lin. long; pedice Is 4-5 lin. long ; flowers 
large, pale sulphur-yellow, rarely with orange-red petals and lip ; 
dorsa 1 sepal ovatelanedulate, ragga subeoncave subacute, with 
a distinct rounded sac near the apex, 5 lin. long; lateral sepals 
widely spreading, obliquely pce shortly acuminate and curved at 
the apex, subsaccate at the base, 5 lin. long ; petals cohering with 
the dorsal sepal into an expanded limb, very oblique, broad] 
elliptic-oblong, oe Co the inner angle, broadly auriculate 
at the base, with a nulate outer margin, 5-6 lin. long; lip 
broadly thomboid-orbicular, subobtuse, very undu late, reflexed, 
2 lin. long ; appendage ovate-oblong , obscurely 3-lobed about the 
middle, obtuse, recurved at the apex, base broad, upper half narrow 
and erenulate, 4 lin. long; column short; arms of the rostellum 
auriculate, concave, 1) lin. long. Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult, 22 ; 
] é 
Bolus in Trans. 8. Afr. Phil. Soc. v. 184, Orch. Cap. Penins. 184, 
and in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 208 ; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. 
Afr. ¥. 117; "Schlechter in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1° sér. vi. 813; Kranzl. 
Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 856, exel. syn. Linn. f., and in Ann. Naturhist. 
Hofmus. Wien, xx. 10. ‘Ophry ¢ catholica, Li inn. Ameen. Acad. vi. 110, 
and Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 1344. Ophrye alaris, Linn. 4, 
Arethusa alaris, Thunb. Prodr. 3.—O. affinis, flore inteo, Buab. Fi 
Min. Cogn. —— 13, é. 21. ‘ 
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