292 ORCHIDE® (Rolfe). [ Disperis. 
the flattened caudicles, which curl up in a spiral on removal. 
Stigma bilobed, lobes situated on either side of the adnate claw of 
the lip, approximate or somewhat distant. Capsule cylindric or 
ovoid-oblong, ribbed. 
Terrestrial << usually small or slender, with ovoid tubers ; leaves one to 
few, alternate or sometimes in a single opposite ke or solitary ; flowers in 
racemes or par al bracts medium- snes or large and leaf-like. 
Disrris. Species about 55, most numerous in extra- -tropical South Africa, 
extending to Tropical Africa. the eee Islands, and South India, with a 
solitary represen in New G 
*Dorsal ore! with a saccate or saccate- hes galea, rarely 
as long as the limb : 
heaves napuianans or rarely solitary : 
or more or less narrowed upwards, 
per tons my 
eisuess small or medium-sized ; 3 Sepals acute or 
shortly poems 
agit “ao pale green ; dorsal — 
Pag poi icted galea - (1) secunda. 
am Ian or oblong-lanceclate island 
white, pin marked with purple ; dettiel 
cA 8 with oblong obtuse galea 
Flowers aor rarely fewer in weak 
speck 
Lateral aden 4-5 lin. long : 
Pedicels about half as long as the bracts 
Leaves aes ee — the 
bracts . (2) stenoplectron. 
Leaves ‘asa inal a ae. like 
Plans ne nin a 2D comtom)- - 
sees ga ms -» (3) Cooperi. 
eis orate lant, piliasios 
or acu 
Laterz geno yh eet 
saceate near the cea - (4) ermelensis. 
Lateral sepals ov. We Aiecblato. 
saccate about the in iddle ... (5) Buchananii, 
Podicels about three-quarters as long as 
. te acini of lip triangular-lanceolate, 
cullate “eae oe or slightly 
eeding t the 
estate dremel ate, obtuse (6) natalensis. 
agi oe: and ciaeome 
ordate . (7) Allisonii. 
Anda of lip in, ates as long 
the limb . (8) kermesina, 
Lateral pone 24-3 lin. ee ae .. (9) Tysoni. 
Flowers 1-3 : 
Lower leaves lanceolate or elliptic-oblong : 
Lim p peltate, bifid at the apex ... (10) anomala. 
Limb of aoe not epee he ntire : 
Lateral sepals 3—44 lin. long, acute or 
Lateral pao 3-84 lin. long -»» (11) concinna. 
