TAB. 94. 



Tribe Ophryde^. 

 Sub-tribe CoRYClEy?h:. 

 Genus Dispekis. 



Disperis MacOwani, Bolus, in Journ. Linn. Soc. , vol. xxii. , 

 p. 11 (1887). — Herba pusilla erecta, 6-15 cm. alta ; caulis sub- 

 flexuosus hispidulus, distanter 2foliatus, apice l-2fl. ; folia patula, 

 ovata vel suborbicularia, acuta cordato-amplexicaulia ciliolata, 

 l-2-2"2 cm. longa ; bractese foliaceae, ovariis paullo breviores vel 

 long-iores ; sepala lateralia patula, apice deflexa, circuitu lanceolata, 

 acuta vel acuminata, ad 0*5 cm. long-a, fere medio calcarata, 

 calcaribus sub apice extensis nee dependentibus, obtusis, 0*2-0'.3 cm. 

 longis ; sepalum impar erectum g-aleatum, apice porrectum, 

 acutum, 0*G cm. long-um ; petala sub galea agglutinata, lanceolato- 

 falcata, margine anteriore dimidio inferiore lobo rotundato praedita, 

 0*5-0*6 cm. long-a ; labellum erectum, basi lineare, in laminam 

 rhomboideam expansum, 0*25 cm. longum, appendice rostello 

 incumbente, lineari subcarnosa papilloso-hispidula, apice 3-51oba, 

 basi in dentem incurvum acutum breviter producta, 0*5 cm. longa ; 

 rostellum convexum, brachiis gianduliferis deflexis acutis. [Ex 

 exempli, phir. exsiccatis.) 



Hab- : South-eastern Region ; Cape Colony : on the banks 

 of streams, Boschberg, near Somerset East, alt. 1350 met., 

 Mac07oan, 2626 ! Mountain slopes behind Bruintje's Hooghte 

 Hotel, fl. March, G. F. Scott-Elliot, 568! Featherstone's Kloof, 

 near Grahamstown, alt. 600-720 met., fl. Dec, MacOwan, 807! fl. 

 May, R. Schlechter ; on the farm Beaumont, near Fort Brown, 

 H. Hutton! — Natal: Drakensbergen, near Van Reenen, alt. circ. 

 2100 met., fl. March, R. Schlechter, 6937. 



Plate 94. Fig. 1, odd sepal, side view ; 2, one of the lateral 

 sepals, side view ; 3, one of the petals ; 4, column and labellum, 

 front view ; 5, ditto, side view ; 6, lip, front view — all variously 

 magnified. 



A small erect herb, 6-15 cm. high ; stem subflexuous hispidulus 

 distantly 2foliate, l-2fl. at the apex ; leaves spreading, ovate or 

 suborbicular, acute cordate-amplexicaul ciliolate, l*2-2*2 cm. long; 

 bracts leaf-like, a little shorter or longer than the ovary ; lateral 



