158 ORCHIDS OF THE CAPE PENINSULA 
faleate, obtuse, erect, incurved; lip setaceous, deflexed, 4-5 lines 
long; rostellum erect, the arms divaricate and arching forward over 
the stigma, with a broad petaloid appendage crisped at the margins, 
embracing the anther below and reaching higher than its sides; 
anther ascending, long and narrow; stigma pulvinate. Orchis jili- 
cornis, Linneus, the younger, Suppl. (1781), 400; D. filicornis, 
Thunberg, Flor. Cap. ed. 1823, 17; Penthea filicornis, Lindley, Gen. Sp. 
Orch. (1838), 861; P. reflewa, Lindley, l.c., 8361; D. reflexa, Reichen- 
bach, the younger, in Flora (1865), p. 182. 
Has. Moist sandy places in the lower mountain-tops Muizenberg, &c., 1100— 
1300 ft.; fl. Oct.—Dec. Drége, 1233, &e.; Bolus, 3365; Zeyher, 3931; Herb. Norm. 
Austr.-Afr., 163.—Extends eastward to Villiersdorp and probably farther. 
The side sepals are a bright reddish purple; the odd sepal and lip 
rose, with purple spots on the former ; the petals yellow inside, edged 
and spotted with purple, the stigma a brown purple. The species is 
quite distinct from any other, and is abundant in some seasons. 
There is a form without any claw to the odd sepal; this Lindley dis- 
tinguished as Penthea refleva, but it does not appear to differ otherwise, 
judging from specimens which I gathered near Villiersdorp. I have 
not found this form on the Peninsula. 
§4. Coryphea. 
Flowers lilac, large .. oe Be ats ae ae .. D. Harverana 25. 
Flowers rosy, small. 
Leaves broad, glandularly hairy ae ac ac .. D.Guanpuxosa 26. 
Leaves narrow, glabrous ae ie es He ..« D. VAGINATA 27. 
25. Disa Harveiana, Lindley, in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot., vol. i. 
(1842), p. 15.—Erect, glabrous, 10-20 in. high; scape straight, 
nearly leafless ; leaves at the base of the scape 2-8, linear, acuminate, 
weakly spreading and nearly withered when the flowers bloom, 5-7 in. 
long; sheaths membranous, netted-veined, covering and closely in- 
vesting the scape, with short, free, acuminate points; bracts, lanceo- 
late, acuminate, membranous, netted-veined, shorter than the ovaries, 
flowers 3-7 in a loose spreading raceme, on pedicels 3-4 lines long; 
side sepals oblong, somewhat obtuse, spreading deflexed, about 10-11 
lines long ; odd sepal subgaleate, the limb expanded, obovate, arched 
backward, with a spreading filiform spur exceeding the ovary, 1-14 in. 
long ; petals nearly linear, acute, eared at base, spreading outward at 
the apex; lip linear-lanceolate ; rostellum low; anther resupinate. 
Has. Rocky clefts and ridges on Table Mountain, 1500—2500ft.; most 
frequent on the lower plateau, at about 2500 ft., but scarcely abundant; fl. Dec.— 
Jan. Bolus, 3304; Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 162. 
Colour of the flowers a delicate lilac or French-grey, with purple 
