Disa. | ORCHIDE& (Rolfe). 253 
. 14; 
Phil. Soo. v. 146, t. ‘6 as Cap. Penins. aa Pe ee nd Jouen. Linn 
Soc, xx. 478, xxv. 197 ; Krénzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 782 ; Schlechter 
in “es saben. xxxl. 275. Schizodium pesca Lindl. Gen. & § 
Orch. 3 
SoutH Arrica : without locality, Masso 
Coast Recion: Tulbagh Div. ; near Winter Hoek, Thunberg! Cape Div. ; 
moist clefts of rocks, Muizen Berg, De ign es ee sokin, Bolus, 4843! and i in 
MacOwan af" Bolus, Herb, Nor -Afr. 160! lower slopes of ipso 
Mountains, 2800 ft., igo Woliey. Ded, 2150; Caledon Div. ; moist rock o 
Houw Hoek Mountains, Bolus 
XXXVII. SCHIZODIUM, Lindl. 
Odd sepal oe with an oblong or narrow spur behind, th 
limb often na or acuminate and reflexed ; lateral sepals free, 
more or less apasiasinis often narrow or acuminate. Petals free, 
ascending, often narrow and unequally bilobed at the apex, more or 
less adnate to the rostellum at the base, the outer lobe sometimes 
much elongated and filiform. Lip pandurate or subpandurate, with 
a broad or concave base, often narrowed or acumi ont, 
sometimes with a orm appendage, spurless. Column short. 
Anther refiexed, with two parallel cells ; pollinia attached by short 
caudicles to separate glands. Rostellum erect, emarginate or “retu use, 
with short side lobes. Stigma cushion-shaped. Capsule oblong or 
obovate-oblong, ribbed. 
ee al herbs, with simple Patines tubers; stems erect, slender 
rigid, often strongly flexuous at the ; leaves spathulate or eliptiowrate 
in a ap a radical tuft ; flowers in ices oi or lax racemes, medium-sized ; bra 
usually ovate- Rigas” 
Distrrs. Species 8, almost limited to the eee eran corner of South Africa. 
m was reduced by Bolus to a section of Disa, but afterwards resto 
en teis en It differs siaikedhy ii in the rece Hosein of the lip and in habit. 
Bolus remarks that the rae of the — is quite unique among South 
African Orchids, and appears to afford a maximum of strength with a minimum 
of resistance to the wind on ithe wind-swept plait where these plants usually grow. 
Sepals broadly elliptic-oblong, obtuse -.- (1) flexuosum, 
— linear-lanceolate, subobtuse or acute: 
Spur not constricted at the base : 
Spur broad and straight a 
--- (2) inflexum. 
pur narrowed ook and distinctly pas ... (3) rigidum. 
Spur clavate, or distinctly constricted at the base : 
Oe ae sh - aoe --- (4) obliquum. 
Dorsal sepal 2 ne 
Spur narrowly ce gore obliquely apiculate (5) obtusatum. 
Spur broadly clavate ; coe omen op fid .. (6) elavigerum. 
very narrow, long-acumi 
is eo vai ith broad entire limbs fei lobe of — 
sho ioe . (7) areuatum, 
Leaves wit th na a lagen: -undula: is ite « froias lobe 
of petals srigs as long as the oti .. (8) longipetalum. 
