238 ORCHIDE& (Rolfe). | Disa. 
2-1} ft. high, with a few linear or linear-lanceolate sheaths above ; 
spikes 1-3 in. long, lax, mounly rather few-flowered ; bracts lanceo- 
icels ] 
base, about half as long as the limb ; lateral sepals elliptic-oblong, 
obtuse, with a short conical dorsal apiculus, 4—5 lin. long ; — 
broadly obovate-elliptic, emarginate or a bilobed, about 24 lin. 
long ; lip linear, subobtuse, abou 3 lin. long ; column short ; authee 
reclinate ; rostellum short, emarginate, with a pair of divaricate 
. Linn. 8 
Ie. Orch. Austr. -Afr. i. t. 31; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fi. Afr. v. 
chee Krénzal. Orch. Gen. et ‘Sp. i, 789; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. 
i. 264. 
Sout AFRica: without eer f iA temewn Zeyher, 1554! 
oast ReEcion: Tulbagh D between New Kloof and Pikiniers Kloof, 
Zeyher | Aa ak Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, 2000-3000 ft., Drége, 1246! 
Tyson albroks Kloof, Drége, 1248b! Worcester, Zeyher! Baines Kloof, 
2000 ft., Beale 9152 
ENTRAL REGION : ‘tl Div. ; rivulets at the foot of the Skurfdeberg Range, 
near Ceres, 1800 ft., Bolus, 7449! 
44. D. tripetaloides (N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1889, v. 360) ; 
plant ? $14 ft. high ; stem moderately stout ; leaves padhiasl. “deel 
numerous, arranged in a rosulate tuft, lanbeciate or oblong-lanceo- 
late, acute or shortly acuminate, 14—4 in. long ; a 3-1} “Ft. high, 
with several narrow acute shea tha: ; spikes 2-5 in. long, lax, usually 
many-flowered ; bracts elliptic-lanceolate or ownte: lanceolate, acute, 
3-3 in. long ; pedicels {-1 in. long; flowers medium-sized, pale 
conical base, obtuse, one-third to half as long as the limb ; lateral 
sepals ovate-oblong or hap Pa aa obtuse, 4-5 lin. long; petals 
falcate-oblong, obtuse, about 2 lin. long ; lip linear or oblong-linear, 
obtuse, about 2 lin. ong; ‘ peluain short ; ‘anther reclinate ; rostellum 
erect, tall, emarginate at the apex, with short side lobes ; stigma 
pulvinate. Bolus in Journ. Linn, Soc. xxv. 199; Bot. Mag. t. 7206; 
Durand & Schinz, sie aad *, Afr. v. 109 ; Kréanzl. Orch. Gen. 
. i. 788, and in . Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xx. 8; 
Schlechter in Engl. = Hise xxxi: 268, Dd. sg Lindl, Gen. & Sp. 
Orch. 351, not of Sw. D. excelsa, Sw. Vet. Acad. Handl. 
Stockh, 1800, 213 ; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult 14, partly. Orchis 
ob era wee: i @ l. mie awe Syst. Veg. xiv. 807. 
Tent ee —— (Bolus, Ie, Orch. Austr. om i, t. 30); flowers bright oat 
ithout spots ; spurs rather shorter and stouter th 
Engl, Jahrb. xxxi. 264, scene an in ‘the type. Schlechter 
