B. Var. HIRSUTA. Fig. 9, section of leaf; 13, a flower, side 

 view ; 14, ditto, front view — all variously magnified. 



An erect herb, all parts, petals excepted, hirsute or squamulose, 

 10-20 cm. high ; leaf flat on the ground, often withering during the 

 flowering period, broadly ovate acute fleshy, 1 •3-2-5 cm, long ; 

 scape straight, rather stout, without sheaths ; bracts ovate acute, 

 shorter than or as long as the ovary ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute or obtuse, 0"2-0"3 cm. long; petals ascending, linear obtuse, 

 0*6 cm. long; lip 5-7 fid, the lobes linear obtuse, unequal in length, 

 the intermediate longest, spurred at base, the spur conical, usually 

 strongly recurved, a little shorter than the ovary ; column ovate, 

 obtuse ; pollinia affixed to a single gland ; ovary curved, 

 •3-0*5 cm. long. 



Var. a. scabra. — Leaves squamulose above. 



Var. B. HIRSUTA. Hairs on the upper surface of the leaves 

 dense, but smaller, and not scale-like. 



Var. C. glabrata — Leaves, except on the margins, glabrate 

 above. 



Described from several living and dried specimens. The 

 drawings were made from plants collected on the Cape Peninsula. 

 {Bolus, 7022.) 



