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stripes on the petals and spots at the mouth of the galea. There is 
no other species on the Peninsula, so far as I know, like it, or for 
which it could be mistaken. Nevertheless as it is like D. Draconis, 
Swartz, which grows not far off, and may hereafter be found within 
our limits, I will summarize their chief differences. D. Draconis 
is larger and more robust, with larger, and always, so far as I have 
seen, cream-coloured flowers ; the petals lanceolate and less spreading, 
the lip linear and very obtuse. In the dried state the two species are 
very easily confused. The recurved upper half of the galea in both is 
a character very unusual in the genus. 
26. Disa glandulosa, Burchell, in Lindley, Gen. & Sp. Orch. 
(1838), p. 351.—Herbaceous, leaves and sheaths covered with glandular 
hairs, erect, 4-7 in. high ; scape straight or flexuous, stout or slender, 
more or less thickly covered with sheaths; radical leaves 3 or 4, from 
ovate to broadly lanceolate, acute, narrowed and sheathing at base, 
1-2 in. long; sheaths herbaceous, dense and leafy, or sometimes 
closely appressed; bracts similar but more acuminate, as long as the 
ovaries; raceme 2-12-flowered, somewhat corymbose, sometimes dense. 
or loosely spreading; side sepals broadly elliptical, very obtuse, convex, 
spreading, 4 lines long; odd sepal galeate, the limb ovate, very obtuse 
and wide-mouthed, with a conical, somewhat inflated spur compressed 
at the sides and half as long as the ovary; petals oblong, concave in- 
curved ; lip obovate-oblong, very obtuse, nearly 3 lines long; rostellum 
very low, scarcely rising above the stigma; anther horizontal; stigma 
deeply channelled in front. 
Has. Moist grassy ridges between rocks on Muizenberg, 1600 ft., and on Table 
Mountain, 3000 ft.; fl. Dec—Jan.; not common. Herb, Norm. Austr.-Afr., 169; 
Bolus, 4540.—Extends to the neighbourhood of Swellendam, where Burchell 
(No. 7337) first found it, in Jan. 1815. 
Flowers rose-pink, with dark red spots at the base of the sepals 
and on the top of the petals. The habit is rather variable and but for 
the pubescence small specimens might be confused in the dried state 
with the next species, the flowers of which it somewhat resembles. 
The chief differences are there pointed out; and it may be added that 
the habitat of the two species is, so far as I know, quite distinct: the 
present being never found in the open, but always on steep and rocky 
mountain slopes. 
Pratt 35.—Fig. 1, flower, side view, X2 diameters; 2, ditto, front view, x3; 
3, parts of the flower, one petal viewed from the outer, one from the inner side, 
x3; 4, 5, column, side and front views; 6, pollinium ; 7, glandular hairs from the 
leaf,—all variously magnified. 
27. Disa vaginata, Harvey, in Hook. Lond. Journ, Bot., vol. i. 
(1842), p. 15.—Glabrous, crect. slender, 8-5 in. high; leaves at the base 
