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pressas apicibus liberis reclucta ; spica cylinHracea, sublaxiflora, 

 8-17 cm, longa, 2'5-3'0 cm, lata, bracteis lanceolatis, acumiuatis, 

 erectis, apicibus reflexis ; galea iufundibularis erecta, I'l cm. longa, 

 calcare filiformi adsceudente, apice interdum subincrassato, 3 cm, 

 longo, aucta; sepala lateralia elliptica subobtusa, infra apicem 

 valde apiculata, cum apiculo 1'4 cm, longa; petala lateralia ob- 

 longa, erecta, margine postico auriculato, antice ampliato, emargi- 

 nato, vix 1 cm. longa ; labellum anguste rhomboideo-lanceolatum 

 vel lincari-lanceolatumj basi angnstatum, obtusissimum, minutis- 

 sime crenulatnm, circa 1 cm. longum, 2-3 mm. latum. (Ex ex- 

 empli, duobus exsiccatis ut infra.) 



Ilab. In uligiuosis, Menziesbcrg, prope Stockenstrom, Regione 

 Orientali Coloniae CapensiSj flor. Jan., legit JF. C, Scull)/, (No. 

 5015 JBohis in lierb. Kewensi, Ac,) Caffraria, Mrs, Barber No. 



23 ! in Herb, Kew. 



The habit is straight and lanky with two or three leaves at 

 base, and half a dozen close or little-spreading sheaths on tlie 

 scape, Tbe species comes next to D. Coopcriy Eeichb. f., to 

 wdiich it is, perhaps, too nearly allied. Nevertheless, though it 

 has sepals of a similar shape and nearly as large, it differs in the 

 petals and labellum. The former in D, Cooperi are very fleshy 

 and have no ear-like lobe on the back margin ; the labellum is 

 still more different in shape, and three times as large superficially 

 as in this plant. Judging from my specimens the habit is also 

 different ; the present plant being less robust, the leaves few^er 

 and narrow^er, and the spikes rather shorter and much less dense. 

 The se[)als appear to be rose-coloured, with darker veins. 



As Prof, Beichenbach has not given the colours of Z>. Cooperi^ 

 I may quote them from a note by Mr. Tyson on his No. 1606: 

 '' Galea and spur creamy, with pinkish sides ; petals greenish 

 yellow^; labellum lemon-yellow. All the spurs lie uniformly 

 pointing upwards ah^ng the rhacliis. The flowers are strongly 

 clove-scented." 



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p. 402). Erecta vel subdecumbens, 1-1| pedalis; folium inferum 

 ellipticum, subobtusum, multinervium, basi vaginans patens, 10- 

 19 cm. longum, 5-6 cm. latum, superiora (1-2 vel rarius 3) sensim 

 minora, acuta, mucronata,in bracteas abeuntia; scapus vaginis 4-5 

 submembranaeeis arete adpressis vestitus ; bractea? late ovata) acu- 

 minatse, membranacese, reticulato-venosa?, ovaria caleariaque laxe 



