transverse section ; 13, portion of panicle of Pater son, 309, nat. 

 size ; 14, lip, column, ovary and bract from the same plant, 

 magfnified. 



An erect robust glabrous herb, up to 60 cm. high ; tubers 

 several cylindrical ; stem straight, leafy at base, bearing flowers 

 from above the middle, flowers paniculate, spreading or nodding ; 

 leaves erect-spreading rigid linear-ensiform complicate acuminate, 

 sheathing at base, minutely serrulate, passing off into sheaths, 

 10-30 cm. long ; bracts membranous, shorter or longer than the 

 slender pedicels ; perianth-segments subconnivent or more rarely 

 spreading ; sepals linear-lanceolate acute, 1-1*2 cm. long ; petals 

 obtuse as long as the sepals ; lip cuneate in outline, a little longer 

 than the sepals, 31obed, the lateral lobes obtuse, the terminal 

 larger, dilated towards the apex, truncate, crispulate on the 

 margin, cristate on the upper surface, the tubercles arranged in 

 about 7 lines, shortly spurred at base, the spur bilobed ; column 

 oblong, dilated towards the apex, lobed on both sides at the base ; 

 anther 2horned, horns divergent obtuse ; pollinia sessile on a 

 hyaline gland ; capsule ovoid, prominently 3costate. 



Described from several living and dried specimens. The 

 drawing was made from a plant collected on the Cape Peninsula, 

 and another sent by Mrs. Paterson from Redhouse. 



