Zeyher. The specimen here figured was kindly sent by 
~W. Gumbleton, Esq., in April of the present year. It is 
very closely allied to the D. spathulata, Swartz, also a native 
of Tulbagh, but that has the claw of the lip as long as or 
longer than the blade. 
-Drsor. A rigid erect perennial herb. Leaves five to six 
inches long, grassy, gradually dilated from a slender petiole 
to towards the finely acuminate tip, one-sixth of an inch broad 
at the broadest part, light green and channelled above, 
keeled and paler beneath. Scape longer than the leaves, 
one- to two-flowered; sheaths few, appressed, acuminate ; 
bracts oblong, acuminate, equalling or shorter than the 
ovary ; flower one to one and a half inch long from the tip 
of the upper sepal to that of the lip, of a uniform rather 
dull red-purple, except the small yellowish petals. Upper 
sepal(galea) rounded-ovate, subacute, concave with incurved 
margins ; lateral oblong, incurved. Petals minute, erect, 
contracted in the middle, below dilated and auricled in 
front ; above obliquely cuneate and unequally two-lobed, 
with the broader lobe toothed, the smaller acute or obtuse. 
Lip about as large as the upper sepal, shortly clawed, 
ovate-cordate, acumimate, waved and rather crisped. 
Column very short.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Front, and 2, lateral view of flower with the sepals and lip removed ; 
3, front, and 4, lateral view of column ; 5, a pollen-mass :—all enlarged. 
