sheaths spreading at the apex and laxly clasping- ; leaves erect- 

 spreading ovate, acute or acuminate, undulate on the margin, 1-2 

 cm. long ; flowers 1-6, corymbose ; bracts broadly oblong-obovate, 

 obtuse-mucronate or acute, loosely clasping the ovary, equalling 

 or a little exceeding it in length ; lateral sepals horizontally 

 spreading, broadly oblong, almost truncate, apiculate below the 

 apex, 1-2 cm. long; odd sepal horizontal, cuneate or subobcordate, 

 as long as the lateral ones, the spur pendent conical, inflated at the 

 mouth, 0'8 cm. long ; petals spreading, appressed to the lateral 

 sepals, ear-shaped, lobulate at base and apex, very short ; lip 

 spreading obovate, 0-9 cm. long ; rostellum erect excised, exceeding 

 the stigma ; anther strongly resupinate ; stigma somewhat exca- 

 vate ; ovary 1'4-1"8 cm. long. 



Described from several dried and living specimens collected on 

 the Peninsula from which also the drawing was made. 



This is one of the most beautiful and curious of all our small 

 South-African Orchids, and is strikingly like a species of Adenandra 

 which grew near it on the Houw Hoek Mt. 



