286 ORCHIDE& (Rolfe). [ Corycium. 
into the bracts ; as 4-2 ft. hi igh ; spikes cylindric, 2-6 in. long, 
dense, many-flow : bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 5-9 lin. 
long ; pedicels ar ie long ; flowers small, globose, dark brown or 
dark purple ; dorsal sepal “suborbicular, obtuse, very concave, 2 lin. 
long ; lateral sepals connate into a very a Leese am defiexed 
limb, obtuse or emarginate, very concave, 24-3 lin. long ; petals 
obliquely sehen ears obtuse or obliquely apiculate, deeply saccate, 
h r margin broadly dilated and subconduplicate, 2} lin. 
long ; pe broa ly unguiculate; limb exserted ei reflexed, 
the rostellum ae, oblong, subacute, strongly incurved and 
twisted, about 2 lin. long. olus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 207 ; 
Durand Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 122; Kréinzl. Orch. Gen. et 
Sp. i. 876, and in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xx.11.  Ptery- 
godium nigrescens, Schlechter in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1™ sér. vi. 847. 
— Le ong George Div. ; near George, 600 ft., Flas Schlechter, 2326. 
Alex iv.; near Quaggas Flats, Zeyher. Albany D: near Sie iasmg le 
3000-2200 ft., Read! Glass, Zeyher. Fort Beaufort Div. ; Winterber, rg Range, 
rber, 437 ! 520! Stockenstrom Div. ; Chumie Peak, near pare ee, 
D GIon: Cradock Diy. ; near Cra dock, Ginger ion partly ! 
KaanaRI ReGion: Orange River Colony ; near mith, Sankey, 267! 
Basutoland ; — gpa: , Dieterlen, coal Transvaal ; Little Lomati Valle ey, near 
berton, 3500 Culver, 59 r Bergendal, 6300 ft., vem tl 4013! 
Belfast, 6500 ft. Mik see 4807! Ermelo , Miss Leendertz, 2 ! 
Eas EGION ; s Country, Bowker, 15! Tembuland ; 
azeia Mountain, 2000 i ; er uae ‘Gua East ; Zuurberg Range, 4000- 
5000 ft., Schlechter, Ky y ; Pine Tow 00 , Sanderson, 485! 
! 
: , 530! ! k rg Range 
Satsannas Peak, 9200 ft., Galpin, 6844! near Bothas Hill, 2500 ft., Wood ; near 
Van Reenen, 5500 ft., Schlechter, 6963; and without epee locality, Gueinzius ! 
Sanderson, 482 | Buchanan ! Mrs. Fannin! 70! Gerrard, 
. C. crispum (Sw. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1800, 222) ; 
lant 9-19 in. high; stem stout, nearly straight ; leaves cauline; 
2-4 in. long, dense, many-flowered ; bracts ovate, mi acuminate, 
6-8 lin. long; pedicels 5-6 lin. long ; flowers medium-sized, 
yellow with the apex of the petals and limb of the lip deeper 
yellow ; dorsal sepal elliptic-oblong, obtuse or slightly dilated and 
emarginate at the apex, 34 lin. long; lateral sepals connate to or 
beyond the middle into a suborbicular limb, 4 lin. long, slightly 
concave, lobes obtuse or apiculate ; petals obliquely obovate-orbicular, 
conduplcately folded, obtuse at the inner angle, with very sinuate 
margin, long, obtusely saccate at the base; li 
hited ra ere ; limb res reflexed, flabellate from @ 
broadly cuneate base, emarginate, 2 lin. long, with rounded lo 
gma 
appendage bipartite, divaricately recurved, oblong, dilated, truncate 
