TAB. 36. 



Tribe Ophryde^. 



Sub-tribe Diseje. 



Genus Disa. 



Disa Richardiana, Lehmann, e.v Lindley, (ren. tf Sp. Orch., p. 361 

 (1838) — (j Orthocarpa). — Herba glabra pusilla ; cauHs erectus vel 

 subdecumbeus foliosus, 5-20 cm. altus ; folia 5-8, pleraque ad basin 

 conferta oblougo-lanceolata acuta laxa patentia, inferiora 2-5-5 cm. 

 longa, superiora minora, sensim in vaginas foliaceas abeuutia ; Acres 

 3-8, corymboso-capitati conferti, bracteae lanceolatae ovariis aequilougfe 

 eaque involventes ; sepala lateralia late ovata obtusissima patentia, 

 apicem versus concava, incurva, 6-8 mill, longa ; sepalum impar 

 ovatum cucullatum obtusissimum recliuatum, basi saccule couico 

 perbrevi auctum ; petala nana, fere oblouga, reclinata, sub sepalo 

 imparl abscoudita, apice dente incurvo aucta, circa 4 mill, longa; 

 labellum posticum oblougum obovatumve obtusissimum vel truncatum, 

 3 mill, longum ; anthera recliuato-adscendens ; rostelli bracbia per- 

 brevia divaricata, lobulo rotundato interjecto ; glandul® dissitae. {Ex 

 exempli, plxir. vie.) Penthea Obtusa, Lindley, Gen. d- Sp. Orch., p. 361 

 (1838). 



Hab: South-western Region; Cape Colony: Table Mt., Cape 

 Peninsula, on moist turf banks, from 770 to 1050 meters altitude, fl. 

 Sept.-Oct., Han-ey, 121; Bolus, 4846; Berb. .Yonn. Aiist.-A/r., 168. 



Plate 36. Fig. 1, flower, front view; 2, ditto, tlie side sepals 

 being removed ; 8, one of the side sepals, — all the foregoing magnified 

 3 diameters ; 4, a petal ; 5, ditto, from a flower of another plant ; 6, 

 lip ; 7, ditto, from flower of another plant, — all the latter magnified 

 about 6 diameters ; 8, column, with one petal in position, side view ; 

 9, ditto, front view, — the two last variously magnified. 



A small glabrous herb ; stem erect or subdecumbeut, leafy, 

 5-20 cm. high ; leaves 5-8, chiefly crowded at base, oblong- 

 lanceolate acute lax spreading, the lower 2'5-5 cm. long, the 

 upper smaller passing gradually into leafy sheaths ; flowers 3-8, 

 crowded into a corymbose head, bracts lanceolate about as long 

 as the ovary and enwrapping it ; side sepals broadly ovate, very 

 obtuse, spreading, concave towards the apex, incurved, 6-8 mill, 

 long ; odd sepal ovate hooded, very obtuse, recHned, with a very 



