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sister, Jiss Wheelwright. It is quite unlike any 8. African species, but 
seems allied to H. (Bonatea) gracilis, Lindl. from Peninsular India. 
Fig. 1, flowering stem; the natural size. Fig. 2, one of the lateral sepals; 3, a 
petal ; 4, labellum with the petals in situ; 5, flower, after removing the sepals, petals, 
labelfum, and processes of the rostellum; more or less magnified, 
148. DISPERIS PALUDOSA, Harv. ( Orchidee.) 
D. paludosa: caule glaberrimo, foliis lineari-lanceolatis linearibus- 
que acutis, floribus solitariis v. seepius 3-4 nis, sepalis omnibus acumi- 
natis glabris, lateralibus divaricato-patentibus cornutis, petalis falcatis 
intus glanduloso-punctatis, labello lineari apice glanduloso truncato sub 
apice appendice naviculari membranacea acuto aucto.—Lindl, in Hook. 
Lond, Journ. Bot. 1, p.14. Sond. in Linn., yol. xix., p. 112. 
Has.—In boggy or marshy places. Sides of Devil’s Mount, Ecklon, Oct., 1813. 
Near Camp’s Bay; also on Table Mount Summit, and at the Fransche Hoek, W. H. H. 
Oct., Nov., Dec., 1840. Kat River, H. Hutton, 1863. (Herb. T, C. D.) 
Drscr.—Tuber oblong, making runners. Stem quite glabrous, 4-15 
inches high, bearing 3 or 4 leaves. Leaves sheathy at base, lanceolate or 
sublinear, concave, acute, erect. Flowers either solitary or 2-4 in a 
short, often flexuous spike, purple. Back sepal adnate to the petals, 
vaulted, erect, acuminate; lateral sepals spreading horizontally, much 
acuminate, with deflexed points, with an incurved, obtuse calcar above 
the base. Petals form a broad base faleato-lanceolate, with many con- 
vex, green glands on their inner surface. Labellum with a subulate, 
keeled appendage. 
This pretty little Orchid, first noticed in the neighbourhood of Cape- 
town, has recently been sent, by Mr. Hutton, from the Eastern limits 
of the colony, and it is fair to suppose that it may occur in many un- 
noticed intermediate stations. It always grows in very moist, spongy 
places; and like several other tuberous or fleshy-rooted Cape endogens 
from similar situations (including Disa grandiflora), it throws out sub- 
terraneous, fleshy runners that form buds at a distance from the parent 
tuber, thus increasing after the manner of couch grass, although not so 
rapidly. Though its flowers are purple, as in D. Capensis, it is less 
nearly allied in structure to that species than to D. secunda, from 
oat however, it differs in several particulars besides the colour of its 
ower. 
Fig. 1, a plant in flower; natural size. Fig. 2, back view of a lateral sepal; 3, front 
view of the same; 4, petal; 5, side view of labellum and anther ; 6, front view of the 
same; magnified, 
149. ERIOSPHARA OCULUS CATI, Less. ( Composite.) 
BE. Oculus Cati, Less! Syn., p. 270 (not of DC. Prodr. 6. 166.) 
Gnaphalium Ocu'us Catt, Linn. J. Suppl. 364. Gnaphalium Oculus, 
Thunb. ! Cap. 657. 
Has.—Cape, Thunberg! (Herb. Thunb.) 
Desc,—Root annual, slender, simple. Stems branched from the 
