186 ORCHIDE (Rolfe). [ Orthopenthea. 
ovate, acute, 6-9 in. roi = with red, sheathing the 
pedicels ; pedicels about 4 ong ; flowers rather large, white, 
with a few purple Ss in ie centre; dorsal sepal subgaleate, 
5-7 lin. iong ; spur narrowly conical, obtuse, about a quarter as long 
as the limb; lateral sepals broadly elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 5-7 = 
long, spreading ; petals oblique, auriculate, acute, 24 
with an oblong basal lobe in front ; lip broadly llipse spatula 
obtuse, 4-5 lin, long, spreading ; column . short ; anther reflexed ; 
rostellum erect, eeply emarginate ; stigma aoweanty Disa 
fasciata, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 350 ; Harv. Thes. Cap. i. 54, t. 85; 
lus in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. v. 167, t. 36, Orch. Cap. Penins. 
167, ¢. 36, and Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 202: N. E. Br. in Gard. 
Chron. an xxiv. 231 ; Durand é Schinz, Gone Fl. Afr. v dares 
, Leibold, 
ron Pigacar fom Div. ; summit of Table Mountain, Harvey ; Cone 
Berg, 2700-3000 ft., Bodkin in “Herb. Bolus, 4965! and in MacOwan & ioe 
Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 320! mountains south of nig" Town, 
Caledon Div. ; Zwart Berg, near Caledon, Ecklon! Pap uw Hoek, 
500 ft., Bolus, Schlechter. Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottento Pi “Holloill “Alerander' 
Lowrys Pass, 1500-2000 ft., Schlechter, 5378, Penther, Krook. Riversdale 
oe 350 Range, near Riversdale, ee 500 ah Schlechter, 2028 ; Gareias 
Galpin, 4618! Bowie! 
Geo Div orge, 
pe ot Mountains, above Montagu Pan, 3000 ‘tt, j ‘Schlechter, Penther, Krook. 
XXXII. MONADENIA, Lindl. 
Sepals free, the odd one superior, a pera aEee, with an oblong or 
cylindrical spur, lateral pair spreading I 
alf-exserted, entire or bilobed. 
nd narr 
reclinate, 2-celled ; cells distinct and Parallel; : 
each cell, granular, attached by short or long caudicles to a single 
gland seated near p ; 
‘ broad, subentire, emarginate or 3-lobed with 
P § arms, occasionally minute ; stigma cushion-like, seated in 
front of the rostellum. Capsule oblong or elliptic-oblong 
Terrestrial herbs with — sessile tubers ; leaves usually cauline and gradually 
reduced see t the lower subradical and the upper reduced to short sheaths ; 
flowers small or mediu m-sized, incor in dense cylindrical spikes, sometimes 
more te or in abet spikes ; bracts us y narrow or narrowed from a br ge 
Distris. Species 19, limited to Sake Africa, and the majority w 
Readily separated from Disa b by the single dt of the ihiin, pale from 
Herschelia and Mshigias | by habit and floral structure 
Spur of praes sepal descen 
Flowers small ; limb of pi mre 1-25 lin. long : 
Petals faleate-o -oblong or ova: 
pd Sep: 
lim! 
reduced to a gibbous prominence ,. ... (1) conferta. 
