Herschelia. | ORCHIDEA: (Rolfe). 203 
Krénzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp.i. 797, partly ; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. 
xxxi. 287. D. lacera, var. multifida, ; Br. in Gard. Chron. 
1888, j iv. 664, fig. 93; Bot. Mag. t. 7066. D. barbata, Lindl. Gen. 
& Sp. Orch. 354, partly, - of Sw. D. venusta, Bolus in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xx. 482, Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. v. 170, an 
Orch. Cap. Penins. 170, ay N. E. Br. in cone jCiron 1885, 
xxiv. 232; Durand & Sohine, Conspect. Fi. Afr. v. 
hos ge Sateen without locality, Masson! Brown, Waldegrave! Harvey, 140! 
Rae Main! Cape Div. Cape Flats, Burchell, 151! Wolley-Dod, 391! 
Bolus, 4566! Ecklon & Zeyher, Pappe, ts ses ch! - hlec hier ; Table ountain, 
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arvey! Prior! Stellen gbosoh Div. 5 : ig ay 
Vogelgat, 150 ft., Schlechter, 9544! near Caledon, 'Bowte. Swellendam Div. ; 
rakakamma and upper part of Maitland inte Burchell, 4592! near Port 
Elizabeth, 200 ft., Hallack. Albany Div. ; near Grahamstown, 2200 ft., Bowie! 
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NN, has labelled one of Masson’s drawings Disa lugens, Bolus, but from 
met not green lip, I gnee i onpage ‘hohe ea his Herbarium contains a 
as aga ‘of this, but none of D. Ll 
H. lugens (Kriinzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 806) ; plant 14-24 ft. 
high ; stem slender; leaves radical, suberect, narrowly elongate- 
linear, acute, rigid, keeled below, channelled above, 3-14 in. long ; 
scapes 11-2} ft. high, with several narrow acumin inate sheaths ; 
with the narrowed apex about 1 lin. long ; lateral sepals s spreading, 
oblong-lanceolate, acute, 5-6 lin. long ; petals strongly falcately 
bent, about 3 lin. long, dilated at the base in front into an oblong 
han the lateral sepals; column broad, about 1 lin. long ; anther 
reflexed ; connective exceeding the cells ; rostellum erect, 3-partite, 
with linear lobes ; stigma pulvinate. Disa lugens, Bolus in Trans. 
S. Afr. Phil. Soc. v. 171, Orch. Cap. Penins. 171, Journ. cE Soe. 
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Gen, d: Sp. Orch. 354, partly, not of Sw. 
Souru Arrica: without locality, Villet ! Harvey, 116! Hooker! Yorke, 34! 
piles Rearoy: Cape Div.; sandy heathy downs, eastward of Rondebosch and 
