3, lip ; 4, sepals and petals ; 5, column, front view ; 6, ditto, side 

 view ; 7, one of the pollinia. B. Fig-. 8, flower, front view ; 9, 

 ditto, side view ; 10, column, front view ; 11, ditto, side view. 



Var. B. An erect glabrate herb, the bracts and nerves of the 

 galea rigidly ciliate or subpapillose, 7*23 cm. high ; stem slender 

 leafy, lower leaves spreading ovate-lanceolate or oblong, acute, 

 2"o-5 cm. long, the upper ones passing off into the rather distant 

 leaf-like sheaths ; spike oblong, densely many-flowered, 2-5-7 cm. 

 long- ; bracts reflexed or spreading ovate acuminate, decreasing in 

 size, the upper ones equalling the flowers, the lower ones exceeding- 

 them ; lateral sepals falcate-oblong obtuse, 0*4 cm. long, the odd 

 one shorter ; petals obliquely lanceolate, 0-;5 cm. long, with the 

 sepals connate for half their length, all deflexed ; lip erect galeate, 

 the mouth ovate acute, the sacs very short rounded ; stipe of 

 the column elongate slender, inflexed at the apex ; rostellum 

 31obulate, the lateral gfland-bearing lobules divergent linear, the 

 intermediate abbreviate ; stig-ma oblong rounded or subemarginate ; 

 ovary densely papillose-ciliate along the ribs. 



Var. C. Herb attaining 7'o cm. in height, with all the parts 

 smaller and leaves fewer than in Var. B, bracts strictly reflexed, 

 sepals and petals less connate, stig-matiferous lobe broader, pilose 

 at base. 



Described from several living and dried specimens. The 

 drawings were made from plants collected on the Cape Peninsula 

 (Bolus 3932 and 4820). 



