Disperis. | ORCHIDE# (Rolfe). 303 
Hofmus. Wien, xx.9. Arethusa capensis, Linn. f. Suppl. 405 ; Thunb. 
Prodr. 3. Dipera capensis, Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 696. D. tenera, 
Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 696. 
Var. 8, brevicaudata (Rolfe); flowers smaller, greenish with purple tenn 
tails of. sepals reduced by about one-half ; petals much narrower than in the 
South AFRICA: ingen ee Thunder 'g! Masson, Lalande, Leibold, Hy rimen, 
Forbes, Mrs. Holland, 
Coast REGION: Cape Div. ; sath y places on - Cape Flats, Burchell, 8527 ! 
Bolus, 3735! and in MacOwan «& ee , Herb. Norm. Austr. -Afr. 177! Harvey, 
1 ; J er, 
; issn nge f, Se 
eak, Wilms, 3660a! Wolley. Dod, 601! Lion Mountain, Harvey! Wilms, 3660! 
Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland Mountains Mund, Schlechter, 1157: 
! Caledon Div 
Stellenbosch, Lloyd in Herb. Sanderson, 932! ; Houw Hoek 
Mountains, 1000-3 ‘ ade 3936 |! Cae Berg, Ecklon & Zeyher! Rivers- 
dale Div. ; Langeberg Ran ear Riversdale, 2500 ft., Schlechter. George Div. ; 
Cradock Berg, near George, Burehe u, Sigehad near Montagu Pass, Penther. Knysna 
iv. ; nee ysna, For cade ; Rui allei, under ft., Drége, 8278! Port 
Sma oe py ; bushy a ces at Port EK th, Kemsley ! marshes n goa 
1910! A iv. — stown, hn mson! and 
y; an, 19 near noe mo 
without ecii locality, Hutton ! Eastern Dist of Cape Colony, Hallack ! 
Var. 8B: Cape Div. ; damp rocks at Waai Vley, 3000. 8200 ft., ® Wolley Dodd, 3074! 
Eastern Reaion: Tra asked s Krielis Country, Bowker 
The variety brevicaudata is quite anomalous in character, and as D. paludosa, 
Harv., was foun oe few yards away, there is a siserace that it may be a hybrid 
between nr: although it is difficult to trace the character of the latter. 
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Major Wolley- Doa specially points out the difference in shape and colour of the 
flower, th remarks that D, capensis is rarely seen so high up, 
19. D. cardiophora (Harv. Thes. Cap. ii. 4, t. 106); plant 4—9 in, 
high; stem rather stout, glabrous; leaves subradical, solitary, 
sessile, spreading, suborbicular, amplexicaul obtuse, }—1 in. long ; 
scapes 4-9 in. high ; spikes ji . long, rather dense, distichous, 
secund ;_ bracts ‘saborbicalar) obi. ‘eucullate, 2-3 lin. long; 
pedicels 1-2 lin. long; flowers small, white and green with dull 
purple tips to the petals; dorsal sepal galeate, 24 lin. long, with a 
short triangular subacute limb and a subglobose sac ; lateral sepals 
faleate-oblong, obtuse, 24 lin. long, with a short and broad conical 
sac about the middle; petals — ion the dorsal bes 
erect, broad adly oblong, subobtuse, longer than the limb; pen 
the apex, refle xed, 1} lin. br oad : arms cartilaginous, ae 
linear, obtuse, 1 ] long ; ; gE broadly elliptic oblon’, 34 lin. 
long. Bolus, Te. Dek Ausir.-Afr. i. t. 95, and in Journ. Linn. Soe. 
xxv. 206 ; Durand & Schinz, na Fl. Afr. v. 118; Schlechter 
in Bull. Herb. Boiss. V sér. vi. 926 ; Krénal. Orch, Bon. et Sp. i. 
825, and in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xx. 9. 
SoutH Arrica: without locality, Buchanan, Mrs. Saunders! Mrs. Barber. 
Coast Rxaion: Stockenstrom Diy. ; Kat Berg, near Stockenstrom, Scully. 
Katanart Reeton: Transvaal ; without precise locality, Sanderson ! 
