Plate 64. Fig. 1, radical leaves from a separate bud, reduced ; 

 2, flower, front view ; 3, ditto, side view ; 4, ditto, sepals removed, 

 front view ; 6, ditto, side view ; 6, one of the side sepals ; 7, one 

 of the petals ; 8, lip ; 9, column, front view ; 10, ditto, side view ; 

 11, pollinium. 



An erect stout glabrous herb, 25-55 cm. high ; radical leaves 

 3-5, from a distinct bud at the base of the stem, erect-spreading, 

 lanceolate or ensiform, acute or acuminate, 10-40 cm. long ; stem 

 straight leafy ; leaves linear, lanceolate or ovate, acute, sheathing 

 at base, gradually passing off into the sheaths, 7-15 cm. long ; 

 spike oblong or cylindrical, densely many-flowered, 5-25 cm. long ; 

 bracts membranous lanceolate-ovate, long acuminate, often some- 

 what twisted at the apex, exceeding the flowers, or very rarely 

 not equalling them in length ; lateral sepals spreading-deflexed, 

 lanceolate-oblong or oblong, obtuse, apiculate below the apex, 

 0'5-0"7 cm. long ; odd sepal erect galeate obtuse, as long as the 

 lateral ones, produced above the base into a deflexed filiform obtuse 

 spur, a little shorter than the limb ; petals erect, in outline 

 obliquely ovate, subacute, inflexed over the anther above the 

 middle on the posterior margin, 0'4-0"5 cm. long; lip porrect 

 linear, a little widened towards the apex, acute, as long as the 

 petals ; rostellum erect Slobed, exceeding the stigma, the gland- 

 bearing lobes abbreviate, the intermediate reflexed, furnished with 

 a green callus extending between the anther cells ; anther hori- 

 zontal ; stigma somewhat declinate ; ovary 0*7-1 cm. long. 



Described from several living and dried specimens. The 

 drawing was made from a living plant collected at Bester's Vallei 

 [Bolus, 13507.) 



