ones gradually smaller ; raceme cylindrical obtuse, usually densely 

 many-flowered, the flowers ascending-, among- the smaller ones in 

 the genus ; bracts leaf-like concave ovate-lanceolate acuminate, 

 minutely glandularly ciliolate, about as long as the pedicellate 

 ovary ; lateral sepals reflexed semi-obovate apiculate, 0-5-0-6 cm. 

 long ; odd sepal finally spreading lanceolate concave, as long as 

 the lateral ones ; petals erect bipartite, the posterior segment 

 linear-lanceolate, as long as the odd sepal, the anterior shorter, 

 obliquely ovate, shortly unguiculate ; lip spreading Spartite, seg- 

 ments obtuse, the lateral oblong, 0"2-0"3 cm. long, the intermediate 

 a little narrower, twice as long, spurred at base, the spur filiform 

 about as long as the pedicellate ovary ; clinandrium obliquely 

 ovate obtuse ; rostellum, when spread out, somewhat reniform in 

 outline, the intermediate lobe triangular obtuse, the gland-bearing 

 ones incurved ; ovary with the pedicel l'5-2 cm. long. 



Described from several dried specimens and one living one 

 {Bolus, 8776) from which the drawing was made. It is to be 

 regretted that the specimen drawn is not a very typical form, the 

 flowers being larger and less numerous than is usual in the species. 

 It appears to be very rare in the eastern districts of Cape Colony. 



