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sub apice mucronulatis margine exteriore inflexis, galea encullato-saccata 
porrecta antice truncata, petalis oblongis basi et apice rotundatis medio 
hine constrictis columelle. oblique adnatis subcarnosis, labello oblongo 
basi angustato sepalis breviori. Sond. in Linn., vol. xix., p. 91. 
Hax.—In woods at Olifantshoek, near Bosjesman’s River, Uit., Ecklon & Zeyher. 
Albany, Mrs. F. W. Barber! Near Grahamstown, Col. Bolton! (Herb. T. C. D.) 
Drscr.—Stem 12-18 inches high, clothed throughout with suberect 
leaves, longer than the internodes; the root leaf 3-6 inches long, 6-8 
lines wide, obtuse; the upper shorter, narrower, and more acuminate. 
Flowers often 20-40 in a lax spike, 4-12 inches long. Bracts erecto- 
patent, ovate, acute, scarious, and veiny, 5-2 inch long. Ovary rather 
shorter than the bract. /Vower 3 lines long, lateral sepals sub-horizontal, 
2 lines long, longer and broader than the labellum, subearnose. Galea 
bonnet-shaped, prolonged backwards into a long, subacute hood; trun- 
cate in front. Petals adnate with the column, much constricted in the 
middle, and enlarged at each end. -Anther horizontal. 
A pretty little species, with numerous, but small flowers ; the galea 
shaped like a quaker’s bonnet. 
Fig. 1, Disa aconitoides (rather a small specimen), the natural size. Fig. 2, side 
view of a flower; 3, galea, front view; 4, sepals; 5, petals seen from within, showing 
the ridge by which they adhere to the column; 6, the labellum; 8, anther and stigma. 
The latter figures enlarged. 
XLII. SCHIZOGLOSSUM ATROPURPUREUM, E. Mey. 
(Aselepiadee.) 
S. atropurpureumi: caule erecto simplicissimo bifariam pubescente, 
foliis ovato-oblongis mucronulatis puberulis v. glabratis internodia 
equantibus v. vix superantibus marginibus scabris recurvis, superiori- 
bus subhastato-oblongis auriculis obtusis, pedunculis brevibus multifloris, 
floribus atro-purpureis, corolle lobis obtusissimis, coronse-staminese 
foliolis emarginatis processu bipartito recto auctis. £. Mey. Comm. Dreg. 
p. 219. Dne. in DC. Prod. 8, p. 553. 
Hazs.—Grassy places on the Witberg, 5000-6000 feet. Drege. Caffreland, Rev. J. 
Brownlee! Kreili’s Country, H. Bowker, Esq. (Herb. T. C. D.) 
Descr.—Root ? Stem erect, 12-15 inches high, quite simple, softly 
pubescent on opposite sides. Leaves opposite, erecto-patent, equalling 
or scarcely exceeding the internodes, 1} inch long, ¢ inch wide, oblong, 
subtruncate at base, mucronate, with recurved margins, pubescent along 
the nerves beneath, scabrous above, especially toward the margins. 
Umbels terminal and from the axis of the uppermost, depauperated 
leaves, shortly pedunculate, 4—6-flowered. Pedicels and calyx pubes- 
cent. Corolla rotate, dark purple, glabrous. Corona of oval, flattish, 
emarginate, fleshy scales, bicuspidate on the inner face, below the apex. 
Pollen masses broad-based, ovate, sessile. Stegma peltate, 5-crenate. 
Decaisne describes the corona “ foliolis rotundatis appendicula ex- 
terna prominente sub-horizontali emarginata, inter. breviter bifidis 
rectis,” characters which I cannot find on the specimen here figured, but 
