Plate 28- Fig. 1, flower, front view ; 2, ditto, side view ; 

 3, side sepals ; 4, petals; 5, lip, flattened out— all the latter X 4 diams. ; 

 6, column, side view ; 7, ditto, front view ; 8, pollinium ; 9, section 

 of ovary — all the latter variously magnified. 



An erect glabrous herb, 20-50 cm. high ; stem straight leafy, 

 the lower leaves erect-spreading ovate-oblong acute, the margins 

 subundulate, 6-18 cm. long, the upper ones passing off into the 

 acute sheaths ; spike cylindrical slender, densely many-flowered, 

 5-20 cm. long ; bracts herbaceous reflexed oblong-lanceolate acute, 

 a little longer than the flowers ; lateral sepals ascending, obliquely 

 lanceolate, attenuate-acuminate, twisted towards the apex, O'7-l cm. 

 long ; odd sepal equalling them in length, lanceolate sub-acute 

 sigmoid-flexuous ; petals somewhat like the side sepals, but a little 

 shorter ; lip galeate, the mouth contracted oblong, the apex free 

 reflexed lanceolate, the spurs pendent filiform, about as long as the 

 ovary ; stipe of the column abbreviate ; lateral lobes of the 

 rostellum tooth-like, very small, intermediate one clawed semi- 

 orbicular ; stigmatiferous lobe erect oblong-ligulate, rounded at 

 the apex, twice as long as the rostellum ; ovary 0"7-l cm. long. 



Described from several dried and living specimens. The 

 drawing was made from the plants collected on Table Mt. {Bolus, 

 4853). 



The colour of the flowers is white or pale pink. 



