74 MB. F. bolus's contrtbutions 



sometimes darker ; leaves a dark green. The species is distin- 

 guished by its usually slender stem (though stouter specimens 

 occur), and especially by its very broad membranous reticulately- 

 veiued bracts, low rostellum, and shallow cleft between that and 

 the stigma. On the Cape Peninsula at least, it is exclusively a 

 mountain-plant. 



DiSxV LiN^EiVTA, Solus, u. sp. Erccta, glabra, laxe foliosa, B-9 

 poUicaris ; folia 5-6, linearia acuta, adscendentia, basi vaginantia, 

 3-6 cm. longa, superiora sensim in bracteas abeuntia ; spica 

 subdensiflora (6-20-flora), cylindvica, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis 

 acuminatis, crecto-patentibus, flore plerisque brevioribus ; flos cum 

 ovario circa ]'3 cm. longiis ; sepalum alterum posticum galeatum, 

 erectum, acutum,margine subpatenti undulatoque, basi obtusissi- 

 mum (non calcaratum nee saccatum), 9 mm. longum ; sepalalate- 

 ralia oblonga acuta, patentia, 7 mm. longa ; petalalateralia oblique 

 oblongo-falcata, reclinata, ai)ice incurva, dentata, basi columnar ad- 

 nata, 5 mm. longa ; labellum e basi lata lanceolatum acuminatum, 

 integrum vel obsolete crenulatum, apice recurvum, 5 mm. longum ; 

 anthera reflexa; rostelli brachia erecta, parallelia, cum glandulis 

 arete approximata, basi utrinque tuberculata; stigma atnplum ; 

 ovarium cylindraceum 6-8 mm. longum. (Ex exempli, plur. viv. 

 sub num. 7001 distrib.) 



Hab. In clivis huniidis mentis Constantia) in Peninsula Capensi, 

 alt. circ. 2700 ped., fl. Sept. (-Oct.), legit A. A. Bodhn. Bolus 

 490G !, 7001 ! in Herb. Kew. &c. 



The sepals are a tawny yellow, the galea marked by definite 

 purple lines much in the manner of Satyrium lineatum, Lindl., and 

 somewhat like the galea o£ that plant in general appearance. The 

 petals have dark purple tips,tlie labellum a large deep red-purple 

 centre with a yellow tip. The species comes near to Z>. neglecta, 

 Sond. ; but jVIr. N. E. Brown informs me that the flowers are two 

 diameters larger than in that species, of which the lip is described 

 as narrow linear and as long as the s>epals, while in our plant it is 

 shorter and nearly ovate. 



DisA BoDKixi, 5oZt/5, n. sp. Erecta, robusta, glabra, 6-18 cm. 

 alta ; caulis foliosus sa^jie flexuosus ; folia G-8, e basi lata linearia 

 acutninata,basi v:j ghiautia, erecta, gracilia,flexuosa, 6-10 cm. longa, 



suprema inflorescentiam superantia ; bracte^e late ovatse acuminata?, 



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floribus a^quilonga* ; florcs 1-G, corymboso-capitatce, capitulis majo- 

 ribus 5 cm, latis, post authesin sa^pe in spicam brevem productis 



