boidal obtuse, somewhat fleshy, as long as the petals ; anther 

 resupmate ; rostellum short erect retuse ; stigma cushion-like, 

 3-lobed ; ovary cylindrical, ribs twisted prominent, 1"8 cm. long. 



Described from several living plants. Colour of the sepals 

 creamy white ; petals and lip white at base, then maroon for the 

 greater part of their length, tipped with deep orange. This 

 species is closely allied to D. Bodkini, milii {Orchids of the Cape 

 Peninsula, p. 165, t. 13). It is, however, distinct, by its chiefly 

 radical leaves, shorter and membranous bracts, difl'erently 

 shaped and differently set petals, lanceolate-rhomboidal lip, and 

 longer and more slender ovaries. In the living state its white 

 sepals render it easy of identification. Without doubt it belongs 

 to the same group as the last-named, which, before I knew this 

 species I called Orthocarpa, because of the untwisted ovary, and 

 the resulting posticous lip. But in the present species the same 

 result, or nearly the same, is produced in a curiously different 

 way. The ovary has here nearly a whole turn or twist (in most 

 DisEe it has a half-twist) and this, of course, brings the lip also 

 into a nearly posticous position as regards the axis of growth. 

 This is the only instance of the kind I have ever seen in the 

 genus. The small aborted branch with a single flower near the 

 base of the plant represented, only occurred on one specimen 

 and was doubtless the result of some accidental check to the 

 growth. 



Upon one of the flowers was found a beetle, Peritrichia sp., as 

 my friend M. Peringuey informs me, belonging to a group of 

 well-known fertilisers, and which had a pollinium attached to its 

 thorax. This being only the second instance of an insect 

 actually carrying orchid pollen which I have seen during many 

 years' study of Cape orchids, I have thought it desirable to 

 figure it with the plant. 



