base, l*2-2'5 cm. long; spike cylindrical dense, 8-24 fl., 3-10 cm. 

 long ; bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 

 equalling or a little exceeding the flowers ; lateral sepals spreading- 

 recurved ovate-oblong, very obtuse, 0*4-0"5 cm. long ; odd sepal 

 galeate-concave, projecting forward or suberect, oblong obtuse, 

 shortly apiculate, as long as the lateral ones, the spur incurved, 

 rather inflated obtuse, half as long as the ovary ; petals suberect, 

 rhomboidal or triangular in outline, subacute, the posterior margin 

 lobulate, almost as long as the odd sepal ; lip deflexed oblong 

 obtuse, slightly narrowed at base, 0'3 cm. long ; rostellum erect, 

 exceeding the stigma, the arms truncate at the apex, the lateral 

 processes reflexed ; anther strongly resupinate, the gland single, 

 semi-lunate ; ovary obovate, papillose, O'o cm. long. 



Described from several living and dried specimens. The 

 drawing was made from plants gathered by Mr. Bodkin on the 

 Muizenbersf. 



