6, column, with one petal, oblique view ; 7, pollinarium — all 

 variously magnified. 



An erect glabrous herb, 20-40 cm. high ; stem straight or sub- 

 flexuous, leafy ; leaves erect linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute 

 or acuminate, the lower 5-12 cm. long, the upper passing off into 

 the bracts ; spike cylindrical, densely or sublaxly many-flowered, 

 6-20 cm. long, the flowers ascending ; bracts erect ovate acuminate, 

 as long as, or a little shorter than the flowers ; lateral sepals 

 deflexed, involute at the apex, obliquely oblong, obtuse, apiculate 

 below the apex, 0*5-0'6 cm. long ; odd sepal erect galeate-concave, 

 spurred at base, the spur more or less inflated, obtuse or sub- 

 acute, shorter than the ovary ; petals fleshy erect, obliquely 

 ovate, subfalcate, unequally bilobulate at the apex, 0*4-0*5 cm. 

 long ; lip spreading-deflexed, linear, slightly narrowed towards the 

 base, as long as the petals ; rostellum somewhat quadrate 

 emarginate, the anther resupinate, the gland solitary, semi- 

 orbicular ; ovary 1-1 '2 cm. long. 



Described from several living and dried specimens. The 

 drawing of the whole plant was made by Mr. F". Bolus from a 

 specimen sent living by Mr. McLoughlin ; the analyses were 

 drawn from Mr. Hallack's specimens collected at Port Elizabeth 

 {Bolus 6093). 



