230 ORCHIDE& (Rolfe). [ Disa. 
short side lobes; stigma pulvinate. Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxi. 
242, t. 5, fig. F-L. 
Katanari Region: Transvaal ; marshes near Brug Spruit, between Middelburg 
and Pretoria, 4600 ft., Schlechter, 3756! and without precise locality, Hallack ! 
Eastern Reaion :; Griqualand East; marshes on the Zuurberg Range, 4500 ft., 
Schlechter, 6583! Natal; swamp near Nottingham Road, 4000-5000 ft., Wood, 
1020, partly ! swamps at Van Reenen, Wood, 4527 ! 
28. D. caffra (Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 171,172, fg: 9); 
plant 1-1} ft. high; stem moderately stout; leaves cauline, sub- 
erect, few, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, subacute, reduced upwar 
into the bracts, 2-44 in. long, rather fleshy ; scapes 1-1} ft. high, 
with narrow acute sheaths above ; spikes 1-2} in. long, somewhat 
dense, 8—12-flowered ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 6—9 lin. 
ong ; pedicels 5-6 lin. long; flowers medium-sized, deep vinous- 
purple ; dorsal sepal galeate, very broadly ovate, obtuse or truncate, 
about 4 lin. long; spur cylindrical from a conical base, obtuse, 
curved, longer than the limb ; lateral sepals broadly elliptic, obtuse, 
with a short stout dorsal apiculus ; petals falcate-lanceolate, sub- 
es; stigma pulvinate. 
inn. Soc. xxv. 199; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 
Afr. v. 101; Krénzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 820; Schlechter in Engl. 
Jahrb. xxxi. 258. 
Eastern Region : Pondoland ; among grasses near Umkwani River, 200 ft., 
Tyson in Herb, Bolus, 2611: in Swampy ground at the summit of West Gate, 
Port St. John, 1200 ft., Galpin, 3417! 
