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um. .Labellum calcaratum, cum columna 
articulatum, limbo indiviso. Columna 
brevis, recta, carnosa, semiteres, apice 
utrinque processu longo lineari instructa. 
-Rostellum ovatum, elongatum, convexum, 
nudum. Anthera membranacea 2-locula- 
ris. Pollinia duo, dorso excavata caudi- 
culà longà bicruri; cruribus filiformibus 
glandulis tot membranaceis peltatim inser- 
tis, Epiphyta, habitu Angreci. 
1. M filicorne. (Limodorum longicornu, 
Swz. Angrecum capense. Gen. et Sp. 
Orch. 248. Epidendrum capense, L.) 
Vischrivier ; super arbores prope Enon. 
Planta epiphyta ; tota palmaris, brevis- 
sima, semipoll. lata, obliqué emarginata. 
Racemus multiflorus, subsecundus, ab ima 
basi floridus. Sepala et petala lineari- 
lanceolata, apice recurva. Calear filiforme, 
apice infundibulare, sesquipoll. longum, 
arcuatum, dependens. Zimbus labelli li- 
neari-lanceolatus, carinatus, basi gibbosus. 
Anthera apice truncata, brevis, rostellum 
nullo modo tegens. Appendices columne 
lineares, canaliculate, diaphane, obtuse, 
seriebus pluribus papillarum purpurearum 
transversis quasi barbate. 
With the habit of an Angrecum this 
curious little plant has characters of so 
marked a kind as render it impossible to 
combine it with that genus. The curious 
two-legged caudicula, each point of which 
is inserted into the middle of a transparent 
gland, the naked rostellum, on which the 
cundi. Racemus 4—5 poll. longus. Bractee minime 
acute. Labellum fauce calcaris orbiculari infra me- 
Ero cone nec ad ipsam basin ut in reliquis 
» gracile, foliis subulatis, 
caulesce 
fk a — acutis, petalis Sisi ibas acutis pa auld 
brevioribus 
nudo, et recto filiformi ovario longiore: 
res parvi, Abe. solitarii. 
lo 
Columna brevissima. Poe 
Angreci 
A.c mum ; caulescens, foliis crassissimis en 
siformi recurvis apice acutatis bilobis lobo tis 
€ spicà horizontali ase pee subt terran ien 
eis ovatis is ri 
i rigidis 
bicis se vedo pina dr, 
labello ovato cucullato 9 nudo, caleare sigmoideo 
p bi. Ov 
a. a dorso, , Calcar, et labelli venter nigro-pilosa. 
viride et incrassatum hera 
trunca cm rostellum shaped m non fegeps caudicula 
linearis simplex ; glandula linearis, acuta, as cendens, 
NOTES UPON SOME GENERA AND SPECIES OF ORCHIDACES, | 
legs of the caudicula are placed witho 
any protection from the anther, and 
two very curious bearded appendages 
stand forward from the upper angles of 
from those genera will be sufficiently 
vious. 
HororHmix. Gen. et Sp. Orch. 283. 
The addition of several new species 
this genus renders it necessary to alter ad 
extend the characters of the two previously 
described. 
l. H. squamulosa ; strigosa, foliis oni 
culatis squamulosis, spicà densá secundi, 
labello cuneato 5-lobo calcare brevissimo. 
conico inflexo. 
Liefde, Korat 
ele ad neta Folia bina, 
1—13 poll. lata, orbiculata, horizontalia, 
carnosa, supra squamulis acutis versus 
onga. Bractee longitudine ovarii, a : 
minate, hirsutissime. Ovarium stri ; 
et sepala, que sequalia sunt, ovata, aisle 
Petala linearia, hinc repanda, carnost — 
crystallino - papillosa, labelli longitudine. - 
Labellum concavum, oblongo-cuneatum, | 
9-lobum, crystallino-papillosum ; laciniis | 
linearibus obtusis. Calcar parvum coni- - 
cum inflexum. 
Bs. Ovarium in hác et omnibus spe 
ciebus non omninó torquetur ut in pluribus 
Diar aps. 
Sale cry ree opi! dr rl ctl ka MERE i 
aliis Orchidaceis, sed collum suum abruptè - 
deflectit et simul pre. em flores hori- - 
zontales fiunt ovario erec 
2 . Harveiana ; ipiis binis ovatis 
strigosis, scapo retrorsum piloso, spicà ie 
cundaé multiflora, labello quinquelobo: 
care horizontali abrupte 
Lindl. in Hook. Ic. Plant. v. 2. t. 
Low sandy moist plains, called “ 
Flats,” which extend almost from 
False Bay, sometimes abundant. 
Tuber oblongum, indivisum, 
