280 ORCHIDE (Rolfe). | Pterygodium. 
Cape Div.; near Constantia, Krauss, 1325; mountains behind Houts Bay, 
1800 ft., Marloth in Herb. Bolus, 4945! Devils Mountain, Pillans ; eastern slopes 
Vi : ie ch Div. ; near Stellenbosch, 
Marloth, Miss Farnham in MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm, Austr.-Afr. 1379! 
Lowrys Pass, 250 ft., Schlechter, 1153! Caledon Div. ; Houw Hoek Mountains, 
Ecklon & Zeyher, 115! Schlechter, 5473, Zwart Berg, near Galedon, 400-2000 ft., 
Zeyher, 3944! Bolus. Swellendam Div. ; Puspas Valley, near Swellendam, 
Zeyher, Bolus. 
XLIV. ANOCHILUS, Rolfe. 
more or less distant ; pollinia solitary in each cell, coarsely 
caudicle and gland uppermost. Stigma situated between the arms of 
on rostellum, cushion-shaped or somewhat bilobed. Capsule oblong, 
ribbed. 
Terrestrial herbs, with small undivided sessile tubers ; leaves cauline, oblong or 
ovate-oblong, suberect or somewhat spreading ; flowers in dense erect spikes, 
greenish-yellow or smoky-grey ; bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate. 
Distr1B.—Species 2, western or central. 
_ Distinguished from Pterygodium by the superior lip and other correlated 
differences. It is based upon Pterygodium section Anochilus, Schlechter. 
Flowers greenish-yellow ; lip obovate-flabellate from a 
narrow base... oe fee we ae ... (1) inversum. 
y-grey ; lip oblong ... es me ... (2) Flanagani. 
Flow i 
1. A. inversum (Rolfe); plant 3-1} ft. high; stem stout, 
straight ; leaves cauline, 4— , Somewhat spreading, oblong from a 
broader sheathing base, acute or subacute, 3-6 in. long; scapes 
d-1t ft. high ; spikes oblong, 4—6 in. long, dense, many-flowered ; 
bracts ovate-lanceolate, acute, 7-1 in. long; pedicels 6-8 lin. long ; 
a short reflexed obtuse apex, 4 lin. long : lateral sepals spreading, 
obliquely ovate-oblong, obtuse, rounded, conduplicately folded and 
concave ut the base, 4 lin. long; petals obovately suborbicular, 
: : uppe 
4 lin. long ; lip broadly unguiculate ; limb refiexed, obovate-flabellate 
om a cuneate oblong base, minutely crenulate, concave, 2} lin. 
long ; appendage oblong or obovate-oblong, emarginate or shortly 
