Disa emini Kraenzl.

A terrestrial herb 3–6 dm. high, glabrous except for the roots.. Tubers nil.. Roots numerous, slender, pubescent.. Stem erect, rather slender, terete, leafy throughout its length.. Leaves 7–11, the lowermost sometimes reduced to a short sheath, the intermediate 3 or 4 borne at the base or on the lower part of the stem, erect, linear or very narrowly linear-lanceolate, acute, the largest 10–45 cm. long and 5–10(–12) mm. broad, the upper ones much smaller, adpressed to the stem, lanceolate, acute.. Inflorescence 5–15 cm. long, 3.5–5.5 cm. in diameter, rather loosely 7-to many-flowered.. Bracts leafy, lanceolate, acuminate or acute, 1–3 cm. long, usually shorter than the flowers.. Flowers suberect or half-spreading, salmon, cherry-or coral-red; pedicel with ovary straight, slender, ± 17–25 mm. long.. Dorsal sepal erect or bent slightly forwards, very convex and almost hooded, broadly elliptical, rounded at apex, spurred near the base, ± 9 mm. long, 7–8 mm. broad when spread out, the spur horizontal or curving slightly upwards, narrowly cylindrical, 2–2.5 cm. long; laterals spreading, obliquely oblong-elliptical, obtuse, ± 1 cm. long, 4.5–6 mm. broad.. Petals erect, ± inside the hood of the dorsal sepal, oblong or obcuneate, obtuse, ± 7 mm. long, 2.5–4 mm. broad above.. Lip projecting forwards, oblanceolate from a narrow base, rounded at apex, ± 1 cm. long and 4 mm. broad.. Anther horizontal on a short (±1.5 mm. long) erect stalk, 3 mm. long.. Stigma in front of anther, broadly elliptical or nearly orbicular, 2 mm. in diameter.