Flerschelia. | ORCHIDEA (Rolfe). 207 
spreading or deflexed, 5-6 tt long ; petals ascending, falcate-oblong, 
dilated and rounded at e base, oblique and deeply fringed or 
lacerate at the apex, is “tin. long ; lip long-unguiculate ; claw 
slender 13-23 in. long ; limb somewhat dilated, about 4 lin. long, 
broken up ng pine narrow somewhat fleshy filaments ; column 
broad, about 2 lin. long; anther reflexed ; rostellum 3-lobed, 
with eae lobes ; stigma pulvinate. Disa charpentieriana, 
Reichb. f. in Linnza, * 688 ; N. EB. Br. in tg bag 1885, xxiv 
“ 
231; Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1841; ‘Bolus in Journ. L Soc. xxv. 203 ; 
Durand & Schinz, lag, t. Fl. Afr. v. rs ‘Seiler in Engl. Jahrb. 
xxxi. 285 ; Bolus, Ic. Orch. Austr.-Afr. ii. macroglottis, Sond. 
ex Drége i me sia xx. 219, name only ; "Boke, f. in Reichb. Ic. Fl. 
Germ. xiii. p. viii. t. 354, fig. 21-23. 
Sovurn Arrica: without local lity, Gueinzius, Yorke 
oast Region: Tulbagh Diy. ; Winterhoek Ran nge, 8000s , Bodkin in Herb. 
Bolus! Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland Mountains, pont 371! Caledon 
iv. ; Zwart Berg, ne 3918 ! illi 
1300 ft., Bolus, 5278! near Caledon, Miss Guthrie in Herb. Bolus ; hills betw 
Houw Hoek and Pa ne shes 1200 ft., Bolus, 5278. 
CenTRAL ReEcIon: Prin Ibert Div.; summit of the Zwartberg Pass, near 
Prince Albert, 5300 ~ "Bilas 11645, 
Bolus remarks that the long lip is very remar ae and as it sways about in the 
wind suggests a possible means of attraction for insec 
XXXIVa. FORFICARIA, Lindl. 
Sepals tree, odd one inferior, porieontally spreading, aig Sao 
concave, without a spur. etals somewhat oblique, entire, lanceo- 
late, recurved. above the middle, ges g on the sepal. Lip 
Superior, erect or somewhat recurved, reniform-orbicular, obscurely 
trilobed and ciliate at the apex, without a spur. Column short. 
Anther suberect, 2-celled ; cells distinct and parallel ; pollinia solitary 
in each cell, granular, attached by short caudicles to two distinct 
glands, seated at the apex of the rostellum. Cian 'y gs ah . 
rostellum short, produced on each side of the column into adna 
ciliate wings ; stigma fl 
rect herb, with several narrow grass-like radical leaves, and a few basal 
sie ths : flowers rather small, palé yellow sit red-purple petals and lip, gat on 
a slender sakes elongated raceme. 
Disrris. A single species, limited to the south-west corner of Cape Coleny: 
like ng in habit, but differs in its untwisted 
ovary and pero lip, ei the concave, not galeate, odd sepal and the 
separate glands of the pollinia, 
By an oversight ce genus was omitted from the key. 
F. graminifolia (Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. ee plant 1-1} ft. 
high. ; ‘stem rather slender ; ; leaves radical, rather numerous, sub- 
erect, narrowly linear or grass-like, acuminate, 6—8 in. long ; scapes 
