Plate 65. Fig-. 1, flower, oblique view, the galea tilted ; 2, 

 column, with lip and petal, side view ; 3, column, ditto ; i, ditto, 

 front view, tipped forward ; 5, one of the pollinia ; 6, flower, 

 side view, from another plant ; 7, odd sepal, ditto ; 8, petal, ditto ; 

 9, lip, ditto ; 10, side sepal, upper and under surface, ditto. 



An erect glabrous herb, 15-35 cm. high ; stem straight or 

 flexuous, leafy ; leaves 6-7, .erect-spreading, lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute or acuminate, g^radually passing off into the 

 bracts, 5-10 cm. long- ; spike oblong or more rarely cylindrical, 

 densely many-flowered, flowers erect-spreading, 3'5-9 cm. long ; 

 bracts herbaceous lanceolate acuminate, the lower exceeding the 

 flowers, the upper shorter ; lateral sepals porrect concave oblong 

 obtuse, bluntly apiculate below the apex, 0'5-0*6 cm. long ; odd 

 sepal horizontal or ascending, galeate obtuse, often emarginate, 

 as long as the lateral ones, the spur spreading, often ascending at 

 the apex, oblong compressed, obscurely bilobed at the apex, a little 

 shorter than the limb ; petals erect-porrect, obliquely ovate in out- 

 line, subfalcate, obscurely bilobed at the apex, 0"3-0'4 cm. long; 

 lip porrect linear obtuse, a little narrowed towards the base, as 

 long as the petals ; rostellum short, the lateral lobes abbreviate 

 obtuse, the intermediate larger fleshy, produced into a callus 

 between the anther cells ; anther strongly resupinate ; stigma 

 excavate, almost as long as the rostellum ; ovary 1 cm. long. 



Described from several living and dried specimens. The 

 drawing of the whole plant and figs. 1-5 were made from plants 

 collected by Mr. Flanagan (No. 1983) in the Valley of the Eland's 

 River : figs. 6-10 were made from a specimen sent by Mr. Culver 

 (No. 9) from Barberton. 



