with g-land, back view ; 5, ditto, front view ; 6, apex of rostellum, 

 viewed obliquely, the gland removed ; 7, pollinarium ; 8, leaf, 

 cross section ; 9, part of leaf — all magnified. 



An erect very slender glabrous herb, 36-60 cm. high ; radical 

 leaves 6-12, erect flexuose rigid linear-filiform acute, widened at 

 base, 15-30 cm. long ; scape straight or subflexuous, clothed with 

 6-8 distant closely clasping acuminate sheaths ; raceme laxly 

 4-12fl., flowers spreading; bracts ovate setaceo-acuminate, usually 

 shorter than the ovary ; lateral sepals deflexed oblong, acute or 

 obtuse, 1 '2-1*4 cm. long; odd sepal galeate subacute, about as 

 long as the lateral ones, the spur spreading conical, 0*4-0'7 cm. 

 long ; petals knee-bent above the middle, dilated at the apex, trun- 

 cate, dentate or bilobulate, oblong obtuse at the base ; lipdecurved 

 ovate oblong lacerate - dentate or lacerate - multifid, segments 

 incurved obtuse, l"2-l-4 cm. long; rostellum erect trifid, the 

 segments equal in length, the intermediate placed behind ; gland 

 solitary oblong, retuse at the apex ; ovary 1-1 '5 cm. long. 



Described from several dried and living specimens. The 

 drawing was made from a plant collected on the Peninsula. This 

 is a widespread species and variable somewhat as to the form of the 

 lip, \iw\. greatly as to the degree and nature of the incisions on its 

 margin. In the original specimens of Thunberg (as on recent ones 

 I have from the eastern districts) these were probably subulate 

 and acuminate, while in this form they are obtuse, or more 

 precisely clavate. 



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