208 ORCHIDE# (Rolfe). | Forficaria. 
1-1} ft. high, with several. r narrow acuminate sheaths above ; spikes 
3-6 in. long, rather lax, many-flowered ; bracts lanceolate or ovale 
lanceolate, very acuminate, 4—8 lin. long ; pedicels about } in. long 
wers medium-sized, light yellow with ‘red: -purple petals and lip. 
dorsal sepal galeate, broadly ovate, acute, 5-6 lin. long, saccate 
behind ; lateral sepals obliquely ovate- lanceolate, acute or shortly 
acuminate 5-6 lin. long; petals faleate-oblong, the upper half 
rrowed, recurved, subobtuse and ciliate, about 3 lin. long; lip 
ihiesasitittis so omewhat recurved, pitted ely 3-lobed and ciliate, about 
3 lin. long ; column short ; anther suberect ; oe short, Pe 
t Sp.i. 723. Disa Forflearia, Bolus, Ie. Gk ie many 2 itor, 
Schlechter i in Engl. Jahrb. xxxi. 297. 
Coast REGIon : aoe er Diy. ; Dutoits Kloof, 3000-4000 af Drés ge, ate 
Stellenbosch Diy ntots Holland Mo untains, Ecklon & Zeyher. Knysn 
Div. ; ete “ides, ani Hall, near Plattenbergs Bay, 650 ra a “Newdioale 
in Herb, B 
XXXV. PENTHEA, Lindl. 
without a spur. Petals erect, ique, with a sma mn basal auricle; 
ed ; ellum erect, 3- partives with divaricate side lobes ; 
bite cushion-shaped. Capsule oblong. 
errestrial herbs, with ovoid- Pita cia leaves radical or cauline, narrow. 
reduced upwards into the racts medium-sized, red or yellow, produced 
in short corymbose spikes ; tiraois narrow. 
rhe Species a, sts to the as corner of Cape bined 
nus was primarily based upon Disa patens, Thunb., Jjilicornis, 
Thunb. (Lindl. ere Sy <j “ha ed, it 446), to which Lindley a ‘ide ty others with 
inverted flow referr: Airs momepe Rolfe. It is sy enacted from 
by the fre rare ates dorsal 
Flowers yellow ; lateral sepals narrow and acuminate .. - (1) patens. 
Flowers crimson or head lateral — — mee 
and apiculate - (2) filicornis. 
1. P. patens (Lindl. Gen. & ir Orch. 362) ; plant 3-10 in. high ; 
stem somewhat slender ; leaves adical, onesdete! was wer spread- 
—I in. long ; scapes 3-10 in. long, with eaves narrow acumina 
sheaths ; spikes short, loosely subcorymbose, 1—5- vie to 8-) 
flowered ; bracts lanceolate, acute or acuminate, lin. long ; 
