178 ORCHIDS OF THE CAPE PENINSULA. 
secund, loosely 8-9-flowered, the lower bracts leaf-like, longer (some- 
times 2-4 times longer), the upper shorter than the flowers; odd 
sepal galeate, rhomboidal when viewed laterally, acute and deflexed 
in front, bluntly saccate behind, the cohering petals somewhat 
rhomboidal, acuminate, also deflexed; side sepals spreading, lan- 
ceolate, acute, with a blunt, nearly straight spur in the middle, about 
4 lines long; lip with a narrow curved claw, produced close above 
the column into an appendage, the front part projecting forward, 
decurved, ovate, acute, concave, the posterior part ascending, linear, 
hispid at the obtuse apex; arms of the rostellum distant, divaricate, 
oblong, recurved; pollinia short, few-grained, caudicles flat; stigmas 
two, lateral, distant, placed behind the arms of the rostellum. Ker, 
in Journ. Sci. R. Inst., vol. v. (1818), t. 1, f. 3. Orchis circumflexa, 
Linneus, Sp. Plant. ed. 2, (1763), 1844.  Arethusa secunda, Thun- 
berg, Prodr. (1794), 3. 
Has. Grassy and sandy places near Cape Town, 100—300ft.; fl. July—Sept., 
Zeyher, 3939; Drege, 8279; Bolus, 4817; on Muizenberg Mountain; fl. Oct., 
A. Bodkin.—Extends to Saldanha Bay and Drakensteenbergen. 
Flowers a pale sap-green. A very distinct species, well charac- 
terised by the strongly deflexed hood, the point of which comes down 
so low as almost entirely to hide the lip and column. The species is 
by no means frequent on the Peninsula. 
Puate 11.—Fig. 1, flower, with bract x 3 diameters; 2, odd sepal x 3; 3, 
célumn with lip, viewed from the front obliquely; 4, ditto, viewed from behind 
obliquely ; 5, lip, with appendage; 6, pollinia,—all the latter variously magnified. 
5. Disperis villosa, Swartz, in Kong. Vet. Acad. Handl., vol. xxi 
(1800), p. 220.—Pubescent, slender, 8-6 in. high; leaves 2, usually 
distant, the lower ovate, the upper narrower, either petiolate or 
sheathing at base, 5-10 lines long; flowers 1-2, rarely 8, bracts leaf- 
like, complicate, small or large, and sometimes nearly equalling the 
flowers; odd sepal galeate, depressed, and nearly horizontal at the 
summit, saccate at base, 8-4 lines long, the cohering petals lanceolate, 
acuminate, lobed in front and adnate to the column at base; side 
sepals ascending, obovate, acute, with a conical sac just below the 
apex ; lip with a long, narrow, linear claw, bent over and then behind 
the column, produced at the apex into a deflexed, somewhat swollen, 
beaked appendage; arms of the rostellum closely approximate, pro- 
jecting, much twisted; pollinia with a long caudicle and few granules ; 
ovary 8-gonous. Ker, in Journ. Sci. R. Inst. Lond., vol. vi. (1819), t.i., 
f.5; Thunberg, Flor. Cap. ed. 1823, p.25. Arethusa villosa, Linnzus, 
f. Suppl. (1781), 408. 
Has. In moist grassy places near Cape Town, Mowbray, Wynberg, &c., 
common; and on the sides of the Devil’s Peak, 50—600 ft.; fl. Aug.—Sept., Bolus, 
3966; Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 178. — Extends to Drakensteenbergen, Paarl, 
Saldanha Bay, &e. Zeyher, 3937; Ecklon, 248; Drege, 481. 
