raised at Kew from seed received in 1915 from the late 
Professor Pearson, Cape Town. Grown in an outside 
border during the summer, they flowered freely in 1916. 
At Kew the plant is not hardy and has not ripened seeds; 
propagation is, however, easily effected by means of 
cuttings. Its nearest ally is D. Burchellii, Hiern, which 
also occurs in the Transkei but extends thence westward 
to near Cape Town; this latter species has not yet been 
introduced, and is unlikely to prove more effective 
horticulturally than that now figured, which as a decora- 
tive plant, although not without charm, is much inferior 
to the better known D. Barberae. If the flowers of 
D. Barberae and D. Aliciae be compared it will be 
observed that in both species the filaments of the lower 
and longer pair of stamens form a loop through which 
the two upper stamens are deflected, the anthers of the 
latter being thus placed on the lower side, the four 
being connivent or coherent round the tip of the style. 
But whereas in D. Aliciae the style and anthers are 
appressed to the upper lip across the sac at its base, in 
D. Barberae they are diverted towards the median lobe of 
the lower lip and stand between the mouths of the spurs. 
_ Desoription.—Herb, perennial, up to 2} ft. high, all parts except the 
inflorescence glabrous, diffusely branched. Stems ascending, 4-angled and 
narrowly 4-winged, 1-1 in. thick, Leaves opposite, decussate, petioled, ovate, 
acute or apiculate, rounded at the base, dentate-serrate, 1}-2 in. long, 14-14 in. 
wide ; petiole 1-2 in, long, narrowly winged. Racemes terminal, lax, many- 
flowered, 2-10 in. long; bracts ovate, acuminate, entire or sparingly denti- 
culate at the base, 1-2 in. long; pedicels slightly Spreading, slender, 1-3 
in. long, glandular-pubescent. Calyx 5-partite, 1-1 in. long, sparingly 
glandular-pubescent ; Segments nearly equal, linear-lanceolate, very short. 
Corolla pale rose, with darker blotches at the base of each lip, greenish 
inside the pouch, sparingly glandular-pubescent; tube wide, very short, 
pouched behind and 2-spurred in front; limb 2-labiate, about 2 in. long 
and } in, across ; upper lip shortly 2-lobed, the lobes somewhat quadrate and 
slightly recurved, 3, in. wide; lower lip 8-lobed, the lateral lobes almost 
orbicular, spreading and recurved, the mid-lobe Spreading, orbicular, nearly | 
3 in. wide, with minute purple papillae at the base; spurs about 1 in. long, 
incurved under the mid-lobe of the lower lip. Stamens 4, included, ;); in. long ; 
filaments glandular-pubescent ; anthers connivent or cohering. Ovary narrow- 
ovoid, glabrous ; style rather stout, almost as long as the stamens; stigma 
indistinctly 2-lobed. Capsule ellipsoid, about 3 in. long, ¥); in. wide. 
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Tan. 8782.—Fig. 1, a flower seen from below; 2, the same, from above; 
8B, ovary with a portion of the calyx; 4, stamens and base of corolla; 5, anther 
with portion of its filament :—ail enlarged, 
