more usually paniculate, spreading- or nodding ; leaves erect- 

 spreading, sheathing at base, rigid linear-ensiform acuminate, 

 minutely serrulate, passing off into the sheaths of the scape, 12-20 

 cm. long- ; bracts spreading, shorter or longer than the slender 

 pedicels attaining 2*5 cm. in length ; sepals and petals almost alike, 

 spreading or connivent, oblong acute, or the petals obtuse, 

 l"5-2 cm. long; lip cuneate in outline, l*8-2'3 cm. long, Slobed, 

 lateral lobes obtuse, the terminal larger, widened towards the 

 apex, truncate, crispulate on the margin, crested, the tubercles 

 arranged in about 7 lines, spurred at base, the spur bilobed ; 

 column oblong, dilated towards the apex, lobed at the base on each 

 side ; anther 2horned, horns diverging obtuse ; poUinia sessile on 

 an oblong hyaline gland. 



Described from several living- and dried specimens. The 

 drawing was made from a specimen gathered on the Cape 

 Peninsula — the apical portion of one of the tubers figured under 

 fig. 2, being taken from a specimen collected by Mr. Tugwell, on 

 the Cape Flats. 



