bus, racemo oblongo 7—8-floro, bracteis 
membranaceis acuminatis cucullatis pedi- 
~ eellorum longitudine, sepalis oblongis acu- 
= tis, petalis feré tripló latioribus :equilongis 
obtusis, labelli trilobi laciniis lateralibus 
ovatis planis intermedià retusà undulata 
ramentaceo-cristatà, calcare cylindraceo 
obtuso ovario subequali. 
(Hb. Burchell, No. 6611.) Jn agro 
Zwellendam, prope Zoetemelks Rivier. 
Vix pedalis. Scapus vaginis tribus dis- 
tantibus acuminatis. Folia rigida. 
ll. E.üssochiloides ; foliis lineari-lan- 
ceolatis suberectis scapo brevioribus, ra- 
cemo laxo 8—9-floro, bracteis lanceolatis 
acuminatis patentibus, sepalis lineari-ob- 
longis obtusis, petalis obtusissimis latiori- 
bus brevioribusque, labello trilobo laciniis 
ralibus membranaceis ovatis intermedia 
oblonga subcuneatá retusà carnosá, venis 
tribus lacero-cristatis, calcare conico in- 
curvo. 
(Hb. Burchell, No. 6764) Cum pre- 
e. 
E. Spithameus. Scapus vaginis 2—3 dis- 
E tantibus, Folia palmaria, inter carinata et 
tantia, Flores magis carnosi quam in 
.  Speciebus huic proximis. 
Cyupipium. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 161. 
Mr. Harvey has found at the Cape a 
Plant that has escaped the notice of all 
other observers, and which he calls C. pl- 
eatem. I have seen no specimen; but the 
figure and accompanying description leave 
no doubt of its being distinct from C. acu- 
leatum, 
Cymbidium plicatum: Harv. MSS. — 
Seapo | erecto vaginato multifloro, spica 
vata, bracteis ovario longioribus lineari- 
ara. sepalis erectis obtusis, labello 
obo, lobis lateralibus obtusis incurvis 
Pea) sind involuto ciliato, foliis radi- 
a nsilormibus plicatis scapo longio- 
Oymbidium pli : 
: plicatum. Harv. in Hook. 
Te. Plant. t. 104. 
Wet spots by the side of drains and in 
ma « 
igi 3 Mes Flats" near Wynberg n 
NOTES UPON SOME GENERA AND SPECIES OF ORCHIDACE £. 
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Root, one or more fleshy oblong or fasi- 
form transversely fasciated tubers, with 
fleshy fibres from the crown. Leaves ra- 
dical, about three, ensiform, strongly pli- 
cate, acute, the lowest short, the next 
longer than the scape, erect, they and the 
scape inclosed in a common radicular 
sheath. Scape straight, cylindrical, sim- 
ple, sheathed, from the base to the apex, 
glabrous, bearing an ovate dense spike of 
white flowers; sheaths foliaceous, green, 
acute, striate, loose, erect; bractee linear- 
lanceolate, acute, longer than the ovarium. 
Sepals erect, never expanded ; three outer 
ovato-oblong, obtuse, of equal length, the 
dorsal narrowest, the two lateral slightly 
keéfed ; inner obovato-elliptical, very ob- 
tuse, rather shorter. Labellum articulat- 
ed with the prominent base of the column, 
erect, t teat the b A 1 tas] g 
the sepals, trilobed, lateral lobes connivent, 
oblong, obtuse, medial rather the longest, 
truncate, its margins involute and waved, 
its surface adorned with about four rows 
of white cilie, which at its base are united 
into two prominent longitudinal ribs, reach- 
ing to the base of the labellum. Column 
short, about half as long as the labellum, 
prominent at the base ; oblong, flat in front, 
rounded behind, with a triangular cavern- 
ous perforation near the apex, round the 
walls of which stigmatic tissue is develop- 
ed.  Pollen-masses geminate, solid, at- 
tached to a common scale at the apex of 
the perforation, concealed beneath a cucul- 
late, deciduous hood. Ovarium clavate, 
spirally twisted, sessile, six-ribbed. Cap- 
sule pyriform. Harvey. 
Gen. et Sp. Orch. 189. 
1. C. foliosa; vaginis scapi foliosis, 
foliis strictis ensiformibus, racemo multi- 
floro vagina supremá paulo longiore, (brac- 
teis acuminatissimis laceris floribus longi- 
oribus,) perianthii carnosi laciniis lanceo- 
latis acutis subequalibus, labello concavo 
subrotundo trilobo lobo intermedio emar- 
ginato medio parcé papilloso basi tricris- 
tato. AM : 
Inter Basche et Omtala in graminosis. 
Caulis sesquipedalis feré ad racemum 
CYRTOPERA. 
