DISA. 147 
shaped, acute, obtuse or scarcely saccate at base, mouth about 7 lines 
long, 5 lines wide; petals linear, reflexed, ascending at the apex; lip 
lanceolate, 7 lines long; anther horizontal; rostellum erect, bifid ; 
stigma umbonate, 3-lobed. Thunberg, Prodr. Pl. Cap. (1794), p. 4; 
ib., Flor. Cap., 1828, p.14. Schizodiwm maculatum, Lindley, Gen. & Sp. 
Orch. (1838), p. 860. 
Has. In moist clefts of rocks, Muizenberg, several places, alt. 1200—1600 ft., 
fl. Nov., Prof. Bodkin, Bolus, 4843; Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 160.— Extends to 
Roodesand Mts. (Thunberg) and Houw Hoek Mts. 
Flowers pale blue, faintly striped with green, the minute petals 
yellow with purple stripes, stigma dark purple; sheaths minutely red- 
spotted. An elegant little species, apparently unknown since Thun- 
berg’s time, and for the re-discovery of which we are indebted to 
Prof. Bodkin. There were no specimens in Herb. Kew until his were 
sent. It does not appear to have any near allies. 
Pirate 7.—Fig. 1, odd sepal, side view, x 2 diameters; 2, side sepal, x 2; 3, lip 
x 2; 4, petals, with column, magnified; 5, column, front view, mag. 
11. Disa uniflora, Bergius, Descr. Plant. e Cap. B. Spei. (1767), 
348, t. 4, f. 7—A robust, glabrous, decumbent herb, 1-2 ft. high; 
scape simple, leafy; leaves 5-7, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, sheathing 
at base, laxly spreading or suberect, 5-8 in. long, the upper smaller, 
distant, and gradually passing into sheathing bracts; raceme laxly 
1-2, rarely 3-flowered ; bracts lanceolate-acuminate, erect, longer than 
the ovary; side sepals ovate-oblong, acuminate, spreading, 24-8 in. 
long; odd sepal hooded, ovate, acute, with a conical straight spur 
dependent from the base, the whole about 3 in. long; petals somewhat 
obovate, arched and toothed in front and folded under the anther 
behind, 1 in. long; lip linear-lanceolate, acuminate, deflexed, 3 in. 
long; rostellum erect and arching forward, with short divaricate arms; 
anther long and narrow, turned back and ascending ; stigma umbonate, 
3-lobed ; ovary cylindrical. D. grandiflora, Linneus fil., Suppl. (1781), 
406; Thunberg, Flor. Cap. (ed. 1823), 7; Ker, Journ. Sci. & Arts, 
vol. 4 (1818), t. vi., f. 1; Bot. Reg. (1825), t. 926; Lindley, Sertum 
Orchid. (1888), t. 49; Bot. Mag., t. 4073; Fl. des Serres, vol. 2, 
t. 160; R. Trimen, in Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. 7 (1864), 144. 
Has. Margins of streams (which frequently become dry in the summer) on 
Table Mt., from about 1100 to 3300 ft., fil. Jan.—March, Bolus, 4662; Herb. Norm. 
Austr.-Afr., 559.—Extends eastward to the Hottentot’s Holland range of mountains 
(at Du Toit’s Kloof, &e.) ; Cold Bokkeveld on the Gydouw Mt.; and northward has 
been reported from the Cederbergen. 
The colour of the side sepals is a brilliant carmine, the remaining 
parts blush-coloured, with delicate carmine veins on the inside of the 
back sepal, and bright orange tints on the upper part of the petals. 
I describe the Peninsular form; but there is a variety found near 
