~ Disa. | ORCHIDE (Rolfe). 237 
41. D. vaginata (Harv. ex Lindl. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 
i. 15); plant 3-7 in. high; stem rather stout; leaves on the lower 
part of the stem, 3-5, erect or somewhat spreading, subsessile, 
lanceolate to ovate lanceolate, acute, glabrous, somewhat fleshy, 
4-1} in. long; scapes 3-7 in. hig with sens beer lanceolate 
acute resin-dotted sheaths above ; spi ikes 1-1 ong, compact, 
2—10-flowered ; bracts oblong-lanceolate, tie pibroas or slightly 
scabrous, 4—8 lin. long ; pedicels 6-8 lin. long ; “flowers small, rose- 
pink, with darker rose dots on the base of the dorsal sepal and 
slender from a conical base, about as long as” sie limb ; lateral 
— broadly oblong, obtuse, 24-3 lin. long ; petals falcate-oblong, 
use, somewhat concave at the apex, 2-24 lin. long; lip 
ek -oblong, truncate, 2-24 lin. long; column short; anther 
horizontal ; rostellum erect, scarcely exceeding the are 
stigma. Sond. in Linnea, xix. 93; Bolus in Trans. 
Phil. Soc. v. 159, Orch. Cap. Penins. 159, Journ. Linn, Soe 
xxv. 200, and Ic. ‘Orch, Austr. say i CTE Some & ore 
vit 
spect. FI. Gen. et Sp. i 
pions in Engl. Jahrb. ‘eieei 939: D. sedi. Reichb. 4 ‘e 
Linnea, xx. 690, and in Flora, 1883, 463. 
SoutH AFrRIca: without rage cede goose anges Prio 
Coast Recion: Paar Po Drakenstein ear Dutoite Kloof (ex 
Div. ; ‘Tab S Meautaie, 3600. 3000 ft, “Bal 3898! and in 
M olus, Herb ee Austr.-Afr. 164! ! ef satin 576! 
Kiissner, Schlechter, 205. Waai Vley and Steenberg, Wolley. 113! tyes 
erg, s ft., Bolus, 3898! Schlechte Devils Mountain, 3000 ft., 
Schlechter, 68! Caledon Div.; cliffs at Bee River, near Vi aes and 
rench Hoek, 2500 ft., vies 38985! 
42. D. frigida (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 50, 18) ; 
plant 5-10 in. long; stem rather slender ; leaves subeauline 3-4, 
5-1 
suberect, linear, acum1 ; in. long ; sca high 
wi r rrow acuminate sheaths above; spikes 1-2 | in ; 
lax, 6—10-flowered; bracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate, }—} in. 
long ; pedicels 4-5 lin. long; flowers small, rose or rarely white ; 
e 
dorsal sepal a broadly ovate, obtuse, about 2} lin. long; 
, two-thirds as long as the dorsal sepal ; 
tals pau. ovate, subobtuse, about 14 lin. long ; lip 
subspathulate-linear, — 2 lin. long; column short; anther 
reflexed ; rostellum erect, short, minutely tridentate ; stigma 
paivt nate. Schlechter in "aagl Ja ahrb. xxxi. 269, #. 4, fig. A-D. 
D. cephalotes, Krénzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 758, partly. 
Katanart Recion: Orange River nae summit of Mont aux Sources, 
Drakensberg Range, 9500-10000 ft., Thode, 54! 
43. D. caulescens (Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch, 351) ; plage is ft. 
high ; stem rather slender ; leaves cauline, 5-9, rather lax, | 
late, acute, 1-24 in. long, reduced upwards into the bracts ; pat 
