Herschelia. | ORCHIDE& (Rolfe). 205 
ar Recion : Albany Div. ; near Bushmans River, under 1000 ft., Drége, 
3577a 
Only known from Drége’s original specimen. Lindley remarks that - had 
not been able to bearing the form of a P ‘ate Is, but he had not dissec 
loose flower preserved in a capsu Ae in n Herbarium. Schlechter aie 
the species dner ‘Disa spathulata, Sw. 
10. H. beg ak pet plant about 6 in. high ; leaves about 
9, suberect or somewhat ¢ rved, Picagetier linear, acute, 3-4 in. long, 
1-1} lin. nied sie tig at the base ; scape t 6 in. high, 
with 2 lanceolate acuminate Sectha Stee gy are elliptic- 
lanceolate, acute or acuminate, cucullate, 6-8 lin, long ; pedicels 
about 7 lin. long ; flowers large, dark purple ; dorsal sepal galeate, 
broadly ovate, acute or shortly acuminate, 6-7 lin. long, with 
ovate-oblong, acute, concave, 5-6 lin. long ; petals 2-2} lin. long, 
somewhat curved, dilated at the base, constricted in the middle, 
dilated at the apex into a 2-lobed limb ; lip narrowly unguiculate ; 
claw 24—4 lin. long ; limb dilated, broadly cordate-ovate, crenulate, 
o 5-lobed in front, 3-6 lin. long and about as broad, front lobe 
cute or acuminate ; column broad, 13-2 lin. long ; anther reflexed ; 
suneeotiive as long as the cells; rostellum erect, 3-dentate, with 
acute teoth ; stigma ovate. Disa nia me pti Sond. in Linnea, 
ix. "Br. in Gard. Chron. 1886, xxv. 532; Bot. Mag. 
t. 6891 ; Bales: in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 203 ; Durand & Schinz, 
Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 100; Krénzl. Orch. Gen. i Sp. i. 194. 
D. spathulata, var. atropurpurea, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxi. 
284. 
Coast Recton: Tulbagh Div. ; near Tulbagh Waterfall, Ecklon & Zeyher ! 
1l. H. spathulata pgs Ape: + 1 ft. high; stem rather 
slender; leaves 8-12, mewhat arching, narrowly ~ 
linear, slightly broader | [ pe on half, acute or acuminate, 
3-5 in. long; scapes 4-1 ft. high, with 2-4 er as acuminate 
na 
sheaths ; spikes 1—5- flowered ; bracts lanceolat 
pedicels i in. long ; flowers large, pink or “purple: dered opal 
galeate, broadly ovate, acute, 6-8 lin. long ; spur broadly conical, 
with oblong obtuse apex, about 3 lin. long ; Gileeal sepals ovate, 
with shortly faleate obtuse apex, 4-5 lin. long; petals falcate, 
about 4 lin. long, obliquely dilated at the base in front, constricted 
in the middle, dilated and unequally 2-lobed at the apex ; lip long- 
unguiculate ; claw $-1} in. long ; = broadly cordate, crenulate, 
often more or less 3-lobed above, n. broad, front lobe acute, 
side lobes varying from rou nded As ac selihi column broad, 14-2 
i u 
spathulata, Linn. f. Suppl. 398. “poner spathulatum, Thunb. 
Prodr. 5. Disa spathulata, Sw. in Vet. Acad. Handi. Stockh. 2a 
213; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 15; Bauer, Illustr. Orch. Gen 
