188 ORCHIDE# (Rolfe), [ Monadenia. 
flowers very small, dingy yellow with red petals ; dorsal sepal 
broadly elliptic-oblong, obtuse, somewhat concave, 1-14 lin. long ; 
spur reduced to a gibbous prominence ; lateral sepals ovate-oblong, 
obtuse, somewhat reflexed, 14-1} lin. long ; petals oblong, obtuse, 
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the apex ; stigma pulvinate, rounded in front. Disa conferta, Bolus, 
Ie. Orch. Austr.-Afr. i. t. 28; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxi. 212. 
AST REGION: Cape Div. ; near Raapenburg, 50 ft., Guthrie in Herb. Bolus, 
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7079! Bredasdorp Div. ; Koude River, 1000 ft., Schlechter, 9618! Caledon Div. ; 
near Houw Hoek, Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 623. 
2. M. multiflora (Sond. in Linniea, xix, 101); plant 3-1 ft. high; 
stem stout ; leaves cauline, suberect, 6-8, linear or linear-lanceolate, 
acute or acuminate, involute, sheat ing at the base, 2-3 in. 
Lett. ikes 2-6 j 
apiculate, cucullate and incurved at pex, 24 lin. long; spur 
13-2 lin. , oblong, obtuse ; lateral sepals oblong or ovate- 
» Orch. 
inn. Soc. xxv. 196; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb, xxxi. 215. 
Disa bracteata, Sw. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1800, 211 ; Willd. 
Sp. Pl. iv. 48; 
yp . Bolus in Trans. 8. Afr. Phil. Soc. v. 154, in 
note, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 196, not of Lindl. ; Schlechter 
in Engl. Jahrb. xxxi. 298, 
Sout Arrica: without locality, Sparmann. 
Coast Recion : Cape Div. 3 Cape Flats at Doorn Hoogte, Zeyher, 1 
and without precise locality, Pappe, 57! Table Mountain, above Klassenbosch, 
Bolus, 4885! Diimmer, 554a! Hout Bay or Camps Bay, Marloth in Herb. Bolus, 
4972! Riet Vallei, Pappe, 58! Lions Head, towards Camps Bay, Bergius, Wolley- 
Dod, 3587! near summit of Twel ley- 
Retreat Station and Muizenberg, Schlechter, 1479! 
The history of Disa bracteata, Sw., has been much confused, and the original 
specimen cannot be traced, but I believe it belongs here, for the phrase ‘‘labello 
lineari apice latiore ; bracteis erectis floribus longioribus” is quite in agreement. 
For Disa bracteata, Lindl., see D. cylindrica, Sw. 
564! Ecklon! 
3. M. macrostachya (Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 357); plant 
about 1 ft. high; stem stout ; leaves in a radical tuft, suberect, 
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