162 ORCHIDS OF THE CAPE PENINSULA. 
30. Disa inflexa, Mundt, in Herb. Lehmann, ex Lindley, Gen. Sp. 
Orch. (1838), 8360.—Six to twelve inches high; scape not much bent, 
2-8 flowered ; peduncles and ovary erectly spreading, about 6 lines 
long; sepals oblong-lanceolate, obtusely acute, about 5 lines long; 
odd sepal with a similar but shorter and erect limb, spur horizontal or 
deflexed, straight, broad, very obtuse, 3-34 lines long; petals erect, 
oblong, obliquely toothed at the apex, base dilated but not rounded on 
the anterior margin with a tooth-like lobe in front; lip somewhat 
broad at base, ovate in the middle, point filiform, deflexed, the whole 
about as long as the sepals. Schizodium inflecum, Lindley, in Gen. & 
Sp. Orch. (1888), p. 360. 
Has. Moist flat places on Table Mountain, from the lower plateau at 2500 ft. 
to the summit, 3550 ft.; fl. Nov.—Dec., Bolus, 3882; Burchell, 655.—Extends to 
Winterhoeksberg, Tulbagh, 800—5000 ft.; fl. Nov.—Jan. (Ecklon & Zeyher accord- 
ing to Sonder) ; Swellendam (Burchell 7307). : 
Colour of the flowers a delicate flesh tint, with carmine spots in 
four lines on the lip, and carmine points to the petals; the leaves are 
usually, at the time of flowering, a dullred. This species comes near 
to the two next, and is not always readily distinguishable. The chief 
differences are pointed out in the synoptical table above ; it appears 
usually to grow at a higher elevation than its congeners. 
PuatE 22.—Fig. 12, flower; 13, column with petals, g, gland, s, stigma: 14, 
column, side view; all variously magnified. 
81. Disa obliqua.—Four to seven inches high; scape usually 
much bent, 83—6 flowered; peduncles erect, lengthening, the older 
together with the ovary about 9 lines long; side sepals narrow lan- 
ceolate, acuminate, about 5 lines long; odd sepal with a similar but 
shorter and more concave limb, bent forward; spur horizontal or 
ascending, generally forming a sharp angle with the limb of the odd 
sepal, thin, dorsally compressed, blunt and retuse at the apex, longer 
than the limb, the whole about 5 lines long; petals linear in the 
upper portion and curved backward, obliquely toothed at the apex, 
the base dilated, subrotund, fimbriate on the anterior, sharply knee- 
bent on the posterior margin; lip broadly ovate in the middle, with a 
long, blunt, much deflexed point, the whole about as long as the 
sepals. Schizodium obliquum, Lindley, in Gen. & Sp. Orch, (1888), 
p. 859. S. obtusatum, Lindley, ibid 859. 
Has. Moist places on the mountain-tops (especially in burnt places) Muizen- 
berg, 1000 —1200 ft., Table Mountain, 2300 ft.; fl. July—Aug., Bolus, 7037; Herb. 
Norm. Austr.-Afr., 173,—Extends to Stellenbosch and Genadendal (Zeyher, 1571), 
Flowers delicate flesh-colour with purple blotches on the lip, and 
similar stripes on the apex of the petals. Closely allied to the prece- 
ding and succeeding species; the sharp angle formed by the ascending 
spur is a good mark of distinction from D, bisida, 
