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DISA bracteata. 
Small-flowered Disa. 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Orcutpe®.- Jussieu gen. 64. Brown prod. 309. Div. F. 
Anthera adnata subterminalis persistens. Pollinis masse & lobulis angulatis - 
elasticé coherentibus; basi affixee. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 188, 
DISA. Supra vol. 3. fol. 210. 
Div. Calcare longiore. 
D. bracteata, galed obtusd, calcare oblongo, labello lineari apice latiore, 
spicd cylindrica, bracteis erectis floribus longioribus. Swartz act. holm. 
1800. 211. 
Disa bracteata. Willd. sp. pl. 4.48. Swartz in Schrader’s neues journ. fur 
die bot. 1.28. Exemp. spont. in Herb. Banks. repostum. 
Planta spithamea. © Taber subrotundum. Folia caulina plura (5-6) lan- 
ceolata erecta concaviuscula. Spica multiflora bipollicaris. Bractew altitu- 
dine circitér florum, foliacee, lanceolate acumine brevi. Germ. cylindraceum 
tortum in flore expanso, subsessile. Flores parvt, luteo-virides galeé pallidé 
Jusca, erecti. Galea erecta ovalis obtusa modicé concava, calcari ipsa galea 
ter breviore descendenti obtuso fusco. Petala 2 inferiora exteriora arcté re- 
Sflexa lanceolato-subovata acutiuscula plana: interiorum 2 superiora crassius- 
cula, conniventia lanceolato-linearia viridia basin versus sensim latiora ibique. 
columne latera amplexantia apice lineari integro citius marcescente. Labellum 
lingulato-lineare obtusum integerrimum planum dependens primim viride 
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deindé superiore parte cititis marcescente. Brown MSS. 
Of the four or five species, of this curious South African 
genus, introduced into the gardens of Europe, two are due 
to Mr. Griffin; viz. the present and the prasinata of the 
210th article of this publication. 
We have to thank Mr. Brown for his very liberal com- 
munication of a description of the plant made by himself at 
South Lambeth, where it was in flower in June last in the 
conservatory, the root having been very recently received by 
Mr. Griffin from the Cape of Good Hope. 
Our only guide to the species intended by Swartz by his 
Disa bracteata is the above short specific phrase, unaccom- 
panied by any note: with this our plant, however, in Mr. 
Brown’s opinion, agrees too closely to justify a separation ; 
and being moreover clearly of the same species with the spe- 
cimen in the Banksian Herbarium, deemed to be the brac- 
teata of Swartz, we have no hesitation in giving it under the 
present title. 
