Disa. | ORCHIDE (Rolfe). 215 
cauline, suberect, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, subacute, often 
numerous, 1}—4 in. long, reduced upwards into the bracts; scapes 
3-1 ft. high, with a few leaf-like sheaths above ; spikes oblong or 
cylindrical, 1-44 in. long, very dense an many-fiowered ; bracts 
ovate-lanceolate, wiakinatitee 5-7 lin, long ; pedicels about 3 lin. long ; 
e 
Pig a 
as long as the limb ; lateral sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse, recurved, 
2} lin. long ; petals obliquely ovate, with broad obtuse fleshy apex, 
and a short rounded basal lobe in front, 2 lin. long; lip linear- 
Fi. Cap. ed. Schult. 13; Lindl. Gen. & . Orch. 356 ; - Bolus in 
Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. v. 153, Orch. Cap. Penins. 153, Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xxv. 197, and Ic. Orch. Austr.-Afr. ii. t. 73; Durand & 
Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 102; Krénzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 746, 
268. DD, 
Gen. & Sp. Orch. 354, probably not of Sw. ; Krauss in mph 1845, 
306, and Beitr. Fl. Cap- und Natal. 158 ; Sond. in Linnea, xix. 97 ; 
ax: 219, Satyrium cylindricum, Thunb. Prodr. 5. Monaidoul bracteata 
ps a Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 111; Kranzl. Orch. Gen. et 
810. 
UTH AFRICA: Bi ots Jepaity, Masson, Thunberg! Lehmann! Grey! Harvey, 
189) ! "240 | ! Rogers! Prior! 
OAST Sagi: ‘Cape Div. ; Devils Peak, Bergius! Table Mountain, 2500- 
3500 ft., Bolus, 4537! and in MacOwan & Bolus, , Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 359 ! 
Mrs. ! Prior! Schlechter, 135! Rehmann, 8! -Dod, 
2117 ! Steenbe - 2136! Summit the ve Apostles, 
olley-Dod, 3603! Caledon Div. ; by the Zondereinde River, near Ap raal, 
! near Knoflook, Pappe, 51! Swellendam Div. ; oof, 
Krauss, 1314 versdale Div. ; Garcias Pass, 1200 ft., Galpin, 4617! Langeberg 
ge, 1500 ft., Schlechter Div. ; abov 
Schlechter. ther, 180, 335, Krook; near George, Penther, 100. Knysna Div. ; 
7 er 
Elands River, Penther, 294 ; near Knys na, Penther, 284 
cteata, Bw. in Vet. Acad. Handl. a 1800, 211, is a mystery. 
I ‘°C, b. sp. Sparrman,” and characterised as ¢ galea obtusa, 
caleare oblongo ¢ capile yon apice latiore ; spica ahaa, bracteis erectis 
floribus longiori A sheet sore lent by the authorities at Stockholm 
contains three agen rs te of which belong to a ticket from an unknown 
collector, inscribed ‘‘ 43. Im Sande partion den one Cy ap der — 
des Tafelberges. Jan. 24-24.” This presumably means 1824, ich 
cannot be Swartz’s type. The other aesiuman is Zepher, 3926, “hich is also Pn 
Kew, All three are Disa cylindrica, ek as here understood. The plant 
red as D. bracteata, Sw., in the Botan’ cal Register, t. 324, is apparently a 
lax-flowered form of the same; but Robert Browil 8 wild s ens there alluded 
to belong io Mc ia micrantha, Lindl., and are preserved at the British 
useum, labelled by Brown himself as ‘‘ Disa Be) aid ptio 
alluded to in Bot. Reg. t. 324 is also preserved (but not the actual specimen), 
and it shows that Brown at fi t t as es, but 
Brov rst. de: 
erwards thought that it agreed ‘‘too closely to justify a separation,” an "ke zat 
in which I cannot oe Bolus also thought D. bracteata, Sw., might be 
Monadenia, which is quite borne out by the long bracts I believe it ei 
