306 ORCHIDE# (Rolfe). . | Disperis. 
Wien, xx. 10; piconet in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1 sér. vi. 940. D. 
pu rpurata, var. parvi olus in Journ. “ee Soc. xxii. 79, xxv. 
206 ; Durand & Bekins: mak Fl. Afr. v 
Coast REGION: ‘Piguet berg Div. ; slopes near Piquiniers Kloof, 1200 ft., 
Schlechter, 4972! Malmesbury Div. ; near a Kloof, 300 Pa Bolus, 4337 ! 
s near Malmesbury, 200 ft., Schlechter, 5346 ; among shru nent Hopefield, 
300 ft., Bachmann, Schlechter, 5321! Cape Div. ; Tyger Bere, pie Stellen- 
bosch Div. ; n near Stelle nbosch, Lloyd in Herb, Sanderson, 937 
23. D. purpurata (Reichb. f. in Linnea, xli. 55); plant 2-6 in 
high ; stem sparsely pubescent ; leaves cauline, 2, subamplexicaul, 
roadly cordate-ovate, subobtuse or apiculate, "puberulous and 
ciliolate, 4-1 in. long, 5-9 lin. broad, with broad shallow basal 
lobes, the upper leaf ‘much smaller than the lower ; scapes 2--6 in. 
3-4 lin. long; pedicels 4-6 lin. long; flowers medium-sized, light 
rose, wit ae few small green dots on the petals; dorswl sepal 
galeate, 15) lin. long, with a triangular acute Fell xed limb and a 
broadly saccate obtuse galea ; lateral sepals nie obliquely 
ovate-oblong, acute, 4-5 lin. long, with a broadly conical subacute 
sac about the middle ; petals cohering with the dorsal py broadly 
unguiculate, obliquely ovate-oblong, acute, obtusely auricled above 
the base, about 4 lin. long; lip narrowly unguiculate, limb broadly 
ovate, acute, strongly cucullate, recurved; appendage triangular, 
subobtuse, cucullate, longer than the limb ; column short ; rostellum 
pata, var. namaquensis, Bolus in Trans. 8. Afr. Phil. Soc. v. 188, 
a ReEcion : Calvinia Div. ; Hantam Mountains, Meyer 
STERN Recion : Little Namaqua land; Spektakel Mountain, near Ookiep 
Morrie in Herb, Bolus, 5820! among stones at Kasteel Poort, Baa ip Fontein, 
3000 ft., Bolus in MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr. -Afr, 
D. purpurata, var. parviflora, Bolus, is now referred to the preceding species. 
24. D. macrocorys elt); plant 4-6 in. high; stem slender, 
pubescent ; leaves cauline, 2, amplex xicaul, cordate-ovate, apiculate, 
puberulous, 6-9 lin. long, 3— 3 sca in. high, 
1-flowered ; bracts cucullate, suberect, ovate-lanceolate, shortly 
acuminate, lin. long ; pedicels 4-5 lin: long ; flowers rather 
large, pale yellow ; dorsal sepal galeate, 6-7 lin. long, with a short 
ular acute deflexed limb and a conic-oblong galea; nae 
