An erect g-labrous herb, 15-45 cm. hig"h ; stem strai£jht, leafy 

 towards the base, the upper part vaguiate, the sheaths 3-6, closely 

 appressed ; leaves spreading or erect-spreading-, oblong-lanceolate 

 or lanceolate, acute, passing ofif gradually into the sheaths, r5-6 cm, 

 long; spike oblong, rather lax, 2-5-12 cm. long; bracts reflexed, 

 ovate or lanceolate, acute, shorter than the flowers ; lateral sepals 

 spreading, obliquely oblong, the odd one oblanceolate narrower, 

 obtuse, 0'6 cm. long ; petals like the odd sepal, reflexed, denti- 

 culate towards the raceme ; lip galeate-concave, the mouth ovate, 

 the apex beaked erect or projecting forward, keeled at the back, 

 the spurs spreading inflated obtuse, half as long as the ovary ; 

 stipe of the column elongate erect-porrect ; apex of the rostellum 

 emarginate ; anther pendent, the gland solitary ; stigma trans- 

 versely elliptical, twice as long as the rostellum : ovary 0"8-l cm. 

 long. 



Described from several dried and living specimens. The 

 drawing was made from plants collected on the Steenberg [Bolus, 

 4996). 



The species is a very pretty and elegant one, unlike any other, 

 and was regarded by Lindley as the type of a distinct genus. But, 

 excepting the union of the caudicles of the pollinia into a single 

 gland, the peculiar difference lies in the appearance of the column, 

 due merely to the pushing up of parts 



