160 ORCHIDS OF THE CAPE PENINSULA. 
of the scape 8-4, ovate to lanceolate, acute, spreading, less than an inch 
long, passing gradually into rusty brown resin-dotted sheaths which 
clothe the scape; bracts lanceolate, as long as, and enwrapping, the 
ovary ; flowers 2-9, commonly 3-4, in a loose sub-corymbose raceme ; 
side sepals broadly oblong, very obtuse, slightly concave, spreading, 
3-4 lines long; odd sepal galeate, the limb ovate, acute, with an 
elliptical mouth, and a thin tapering spur half the length of the ovary; 
petals in the mouth of the odd sepal, oblong bent, truncate; lip obovate, 
truncate, spreading, about 24 lines long; rostellum a mere ridge, very 
low; anther horizontal ; stigma pulvinate. D. modesta, Reichenbach, 
the younger, Linnea, vol. xx. (1847), p. 690. 
Has. Moist places amongst Restios and shrubs on the lower plateau, Table 
Mountain, alt. 2500 ft.; and on Muizenberg, 1400 ft.; fl. Nov.—Dec., Bolus, 3898; 
Herb. Norm. Austr. Afr., 164.—Extends to the Drakensteen Mountains, near Du 
Toit’s Kloof, and to Villiersdorp. 
The flowers are a rose-pink, with darker red spots on the petals and 
at the base of the galea. The species is nearest to D. glandulosa in the 
general structure of the flowers, but the habit is different. Reichen- 
bach has a note (Joc. cit.), on the composition of the contents of the 
minute brown cells which are scattered over the sheaths of the scape. 
$5. Schizodium. 
The following table is given to assist the student, but cannot be 
exclusively trusted for identification, since several of the species do not 
offer diagnostic characters capable of brief expression. 
(* Flowers large). 
Sepals oblong or roundish, very obtuse (pure white) nis .. D. FLExuosA 28, 
(* * Flowers mediocre). 
Sepals lanceolate or linear. 
Sepals linear, much arched and acuminate .. a »« D. Torta 29. 
Sepals lanceolate, acute; petals narrow, acute 
Petals lobed in front at the base; spur short and thick . D. mruexa 30. 
Petals rounded and fimbriate at base; spur long and thin 
Scape much bent Ae ss 50 ate .« D. oprrgua 81. 
Scape usually bent at the base only .. ae .. OD. srripa 32 
(* ** Flowers small). 
Sepals lanceolate; petals oblong, subtruncate Fe ne .. D. cLAvIGERA33. 
28. Disa flexuosa, Swartz, in Kongl. Vet. Acad. Handl. (1800), 
p. 212.—Six to fifteen inches high; leaves about an inch long; scape 
1-6-flowered; sepals subequal, 4-5 lines long, oblong or roundish, 
very obtuse, veined, odd sepal apiculate, reflexed at the sides, spur 
short, incurved, retuse at the apex; petals erect, from a dilated base, 
narrow-linear, acuminate, entire, as long as the sepals; lip ovate, 
