Corycium.] ORCHIDEA (Rolfe). 291 
Div. n “es sd Petrie a 
1000-2000 ft., Drége, 1242! Cape Div; Cape Flate, Zs Voce. Kr aal, 60 ft., 
bt in oe Bolus, 7098 ! Schlechter, 206 ; between Tokai and Steen Berg, 
130 
Masten: Hidion: Natal ; summit of Houtbosch Rand, 4000 ft., Krauss. 
The Natal locality seems to require confirmatio: 
14. C. vestitum (Sw. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1800, 
222); plant 10-11 in. high; stem very stout, straight; leaves 
2 
11 in. high ; spikes 3-4 in. long, dense, many-flowered ; bracts broadly 
ovate, obtuse, 6—7 lin. long ; pedicels much shorter than the bracts ; 
flowers rather large ; dorsal sepal oblong, concave pintore) sepals 
connate into a broad deflexed ovate limb, concave-ventricose at the 
base ; petals obliquely ovate-orbicular, obtuse with crenulate margin, 
subsaccate at the base, about 4 lin. long ; lip broadly unguiculate ; 
limb deflexed, obovate-oblong, crenulate, 14 lin. long ; appendage 
strongly recurved, oblong, obtuse, conduplicate at the base, about 
4 lin. long; column short ; arms of the rostellum incurved, oblong, 
short. Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 21; Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 369 ; 
a in nfags Linn. Soc. xxv. 207 ; Du rand ‘ Schinz, Conspect. FI. 
Afr. 3 Kranzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 873. Ophrys otto 
Thunb. Broil! 2, not of Linn. oe — vestitum, Schlechte 
in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1 sér. vi. 
acters} Rrcion: Piquetberg Div.; near Piquetberg and Verlooren Valley, 
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Only known from Thunberg’s original s The s single flower ec “ome is 
iticutenk as to the apex of the nie i and ane sat flower is in bad cond: 
XLVI. DISPERIS, Sw. 
Dorsal sepal erect, galeate or ae ak lateral sepals oblique or 
horizontal, dorsally saccate or s about the middle. Petals 
oblique, falcately curved, united to 5 the margins of the dorsal ais 
sometimes auriculate on the free margin near the base. 
ascending along the face of the At ates and adnate to it Sed 
the stigmatic lobes and arms of the rostellum, narrowed into a claw 
below, dilated above intoa variously shaped limb, bearing on its face 
a variously shaped appendage directed towards the apex of the dorsal 
a 
Anther-cells distinct, somewhat approximate ; 
granules usually large, and secund i in a double row on the — of 
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