Acaulescent.Leaves tufted, erect, on long slender glabrous petioles, lamina linear-spathulate, obtuse, gradually narrowed from near the apex downwards, clothed with spreading stipitate glands to the petiole, together with it 2–3 1/2 in. long, lamina 1–2 lines broad above. Stipules more or less laciniate. Scape erect, glabrous, 2–3 times longer than leaves. Pedicels shorter than the puberulous ciliolate lobed calyx; bracts 1 line more or less, linear. Petals blue-purple. Styles 3, each divided to the base into two slender branches equalling or exceeding the ovary.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch!
Notes
Near to D. capensis, in which, however, the leaf-lamina is uniformly linear or even slightly narrowed towards the apex.
