400 MR. A. B, RENDLE ON THE 
subcucullato obtuso calear dorsale hand Ingum obtusum emit- 
tente ; petalis lateralibus lanceolatis vel ovati-lanceolatis obtusis 
vel acutis 3-nerviis; Jabello lineari angusto ; eolumna brevissima, 
anthera ovali quam petala paullo breviore. 
Hab. Wigher slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro above Morang to 
10,000 ft.: W. E. Taylor, 1888. 
Hight inches to a foot high, the basal leaves sometimes reaching 
5 inches in length with a breadth of half an inch, the upper much 
shorter and more lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate in shape and 
pointed ; all half-spreading. The very dense spike more or less 
oblong in shape, 13-2 inches long, the acuminate bracts about 
half an inch long in the middle of the spike. The blunt lateral 
sepals 24 lines long by 12 broad, the dorsal slightly hooded 
(aperture 2 lines in height), emitting from below the middle of 
the back a blunt spur 23 line long by 4 line thick. The short 
slender lip is searcely 14 line long and only 1 line broad; the 
lateral petals, 13 line long by 2 live broad, are sometimes obtuse, 
sometimes acute. 
Near Disa polygonoides, Lindl., but differs in its longer spur 
and narrower lip. Must be very close to D. Deckenii, Reichb. f., 
in Otia Bot. Hamb. p. 105, from the same locality, which I have 
not seen, but the petals of which are described as oblong and 
aristate. 
DISPERIS KILIMANTARICA, sp.nov. (PI. XXXII. figs. 8-10.) 
Plantula glibra; caule tenuissimo e tubere ovoideo, viridi, basi 
vaginato; foliis 3 caulinis superne decrescentibus basi vaginan- 
tibus, lamina cordata acutiuscula; flore solitario terminali ; sepalo 
dorsali galeato a posteriore cbtuse saccato, lateralibus oblique 
anguste obovatis apiculatis lateribus contiguis saccatis; petalis 
cum sepalo dorsali «quilongis agglutinatis, galeee lutera hyalina 
prebentibus ; labello sub apice lineari sursum curvato, lamina 
apicali ovata cum sacco basali clongato; anthers rotundate 
processibus lineari-oblongis. 
Hab. Kilimanjaro, higher slopes above Morang to 10,000 ft. 
A tiny one-flowered plant, 8 inches high, springing from an 
ovoid tuber and sending out just at its origin filiform tuber- 
bearing underground shoots. Of the three bright green cordate 
leaves, the lowest is 7 lines long by 5 broad; the upper are smaller, 
while the uppermost is situated at the base of the ovary. The 
hooded dorsal sepal measures 3 lines along its straight base to 
