Disperis. | ORCHIDE (Rolfe). 313 
somewhat - abrmeti eps acute, glabrous, the lower 7 lin. long 
4 lin. broad, upper smaller ; scapes 2-7 in. high, 1—2- flowered ; 
bracts lead-like, pee: acuminate, half as long as the pedicels ; 
; cdr 
narrowly conical galea 3$—4 lin. long; lateral sepals spreading, 
obliquely ovate-lanceolate, acuminate and deflexed at the apex, 
2-21 lin. long, with a short obtuse sac about the middle ; petals 
cates with. the dorsal sepal, obliquely ovate, Ae gS attenuate 
t the bak with a rounded undulate lobe about the middle in 
Bee lip narrowly unguiculate ; limb biecly ovate, acuminate, 
narrowed towards the apex ; appendage linear, with two spreading 
lobes at the apex; column short; rostellum obtusely apiculate ; ; 
arms short, porrect. Schlechter in Bull. Herb. Boiss, 1° sér. vi. 936. 
D. Bodkini, Kranzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 840, partly, not of 
Schlechter. 
Eastern Recron: Natal; marshes between Durban and the mouth of the 
Umgeni River, 10 ft., Schlechter, 3001. 
OrpeR CXXXIJ. SCITAMINE. 
(By C. H. Wriceur.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual. Calyx superior, lobed or 
gy sometimes split down one side. Corolla tubular below or 
free petals. Stamens 1 or 5; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing 
Uescadically ; connective sometimes roduced above and petaloid. 
Staminodes 1-6, large and petaloid or rudimentary. Ovary inferior, 
usually 3-celled; style long; stigma terminal ; stylodia often 
present; ovules 1 or many in each cell. Seeds 1 or man y; 
albumen hard or farinaceous; embryo central, straight or 
curved. 
Herbs, usually perennial, rarely shrubs; rootstock often horizontal, sometimes 
tuberous j apes - eolate to orbicular, eae or radical ; inflorescence spicate, 
r panic terminal a leafy stem, or direct from the 
peer acai pr large and showy 
Distris. Genera 69, species about 900, in the tropics of both hemispheres. 
pferia.— Calyx tubular or spathaceous, lobed or entire. Corolla tubular 
below, 3-lobed. Stamen 1. 
Il. Strelitzia.—Sepals 3, free. Petals 3, two connivent. Stamens 5. Fruit 
