DISA. 165 
-hood, nearly oblong, narrow at base, with an oblique incurved lobe at 
the apex, 24 lines long; lip exactly oblong, truncate, mucronulate, up- 
curved, 2 lines long; anther horizontal; rostellum with distant 
spreading arms and an intermediate rounded lobe; ovary 5-10 lines 
long. Penthea obtusa, Lindley, Gen. Sp. Orch. (1838), 361. 
Has. On moist grassy banks on the eastern side of Table Mountain, near the 
summit, about 3400 ft.; also in rocky clefts on the lower plateau, alt. 2500 ft.; fi. 
Sept.—Oct., Harvey, 121; Bolus, 4846; Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 168. 
Sepals pure white, suffused with rose in bud, petals and lip golden 
yellow. ‘A very well-marked species, bearing only a distant re- 
semblance to D. melaleuca in miniature, and connecting that with 
D. minor, It is by no means common, and I have only gathered it in 
two places, one of which, from the description, must be exactly where 
Harvey obtained his specimens. It loves to grow with D. rosea; and 
I know not whether its pearly white flowers, or the delicate flesh-tints 
of the other, are the more beautiful jewels bespangling the grassy 
ridges which ‘‘stand up and take the morning” on the top of the 
grand old mountain. 
86. Disa Bodkini, Bolus, in Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. xxii. (1885), 
p. 74.—Erect, robust, glabrous, 3-10 in. high; stem leafy, sometimes 
flexuous; leaves 6 to 8, from a wide sheathing base, linear, acuminate, 
erect, slightly flexuose, 8 to 5 in. long, the uppermost reaching 
beyond the head of flowers; bracts broadly ovate, acuminate, about as 
long as the flowers; flowers 1 to 6, crowded into a corymbose head, 
the larger heads 24 in. across, after flowering often running into a 
short spike; side sepals ovate-elliptical, somewhat acute, concave, 
erectly spreading, about 8 lines long ; odd sepal concave but scarcely 
galeate, narrowed at the apex, slightly emarginate, about 8 lines long ; 
petals oblong, faleately curved backwards and upwards, obtuse, fleshy, 
3% lines long; lip oblong, very obtuse, fleshy, ascending, 5 lines long, 
23 lines wide; rostellum erect, with parallel connate arms; anther, 
slightly curved downward ; ovary straight, 5 lines long. 
Has. In moist places on Table Mountain, on the lower plateau behind 
Klassenbosch, |alt. 2300 ft.; and in the long valley behind the upper plateau, 
3000 ft.; fl. Nov. Bodkin! Bolus, 4968! Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 333. 
Colour of the sepals dull red, the petals and lip deep purple with ~ 
orange tips. First found by Professor Bodkin in 1884. Nearest to 
D. melaleuca, but known from that by its relatively much larger and 
differently-shaped odd sepal, its wide obtuse lip and different colour. 
A very distinct species. 
PuatE 13.—Fig. 1, flower x 2 diameters; 2, ditto, side view, the side sepals being 
removed, x 2; 3, side sepal x 2; 4, lip x 2; 5, petal x 2; 6, column, with lip and 
petals x 4; 7, column, showing one gland in position, the other removed x 4; 8, 
pollinium, magnified, 
