The Scientific Notebooks of German Orchidologist Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kränzlin

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Corycium orobanchoides.

Corycium. Swartz. Perianthium ringens. Sepala basi aequalia, erecta, lateralia connata. Petala libera, concava. Lavellum unguiculatum, cum columnae facie connatum, antice appendiculatum. Anthera dorsalis, resupinata, loculis ungue accreto labelli interposito sejuntis. Glandulae nudae.

Corycium orobanchoides Swartz in act. holm. 1800 p. 220. Thunberg. fl. cap. ed Schultes, I. 20. Ker in Brandes Journal vol 8 t. 3 fig 3 ??

Satyrium orobanchoides. Linn. suppl. 402.

Sepalum supremum lineare, angustum, acutum, inter petala saccata, flavescentia, apice purpurea rotundata interpositum; inferius paulo brevius, oblongum, concavum, ascendens, bidentatum, dentibus sanguineis. Labelli appendix (lobus intermedius) alba, deflexa, cuneata, biloba, laciniis patentibus rotundatis; lobi laterales erecti, virides, anguste lanceolati, furcam referentes, petalis breviores. Antherae lobi pupurei, oblongi, breves, per totum unguis adnati labelli interpositi latitudinem sejuncti, inversi; connectivo hippocrepico carnoso subincurvo. Pollinia granulosa, sectilia; glandulis nudis in apices loborum lateralium rostelli incurvos jacentes. Rostellum resupinatum, 3-lobum; lobo medio connectivi

forma eique adpresso [appresso], lateralibus linearibus, obtusis divergentibus.

Floret mensibus Septemb et Octobr. Capens bon. sepei.

It agrees pretty well with the species described by Thunberg under this name, but not entirely: for that author speaks the upper sepal being somewhat notched at the end, and of a plant a foot high. It is therefore possible that 2 species nearly allied to each other exist at the Cape of g. H. and that while this fig. represents one of them, the barbarous drawing in Brandes journal, as above quoted, may have been intended for the other.

Fig 1. Flower seen in profile.

Fig 2. Front view of the same, the petals & upper sepal [crossed out: just visible at the base.] having been cut off; the principal part of the fig. represents the lip, with the point of the lower double sepal just visible at the base.

Fig 3. The column in profile with the lip adhering to it, and 1 lobe of the purple anther.

Fig 4. Front view of the column, the lip having been cut off as is shown by the scar represented on the upper edge; the glands of the pollen masses are seen lying in the cavities of the rostellum.

Fig 5. Sketch of a pollen mass sticking to the rostellum & pulled out of the anther.

Fig 6. The same parts seen in a different direction with the pollen in its cell.