the Cape by Mr. Watson, foreman of the propagation 

 department, who visited that colony in 1837, and it flowered 

 in May of the present year. 



Desce. Erect, glabrous, fifteen to thirty inches high ; 

 stem nearly straight, slender, distantly clothed with close 

 wrapping sheaths with shortly spreading points. Leaves 

 four to six, radical, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, laxly 

 spreading. Racemes distantly four- to nine-flowered; flowers 

 subsecund, deep rose-red ; bracts broadly ovate, acute, 

 erect, about as long as the ovary. Lateral sepals broadly 

 elliptic, obtuse, mucronnlate below the apex, spreading, 

 about ten lines long, seven to eight lines wide ; dorsal 

 sepal ovate, concave, obtuse, bluntly and widely saccate 

 behind just below the middle, about nine lines long and 

 five in depth. Petals obliquely oblong, apex incurved, 

 posterior margin erose, meeting and arching over the 

 anther, adnate to the column at the base. Lip linear, 

 acute, five lines long. Column erect or ascending; rostellum 

 with divaricate arms, bearing the glands at their apices, 

 furnished posteriorly with a petaloid appendage reaching 

 half-way up, and closely embracing the anther; glands 

 facing the front of the flower. — H. Bolus'. 



Fig. 1, Column and lip ; 2, column, anther, and arms of rostellum ; 3, pollinia :— 

 all enlarged. 



