obtuse, 4-8 cm. long ; raceme oblong-, 4-11 cm. long, rather 

 densely 4-many-flo\vered, flowers ascending ; bracts membranous 

 ovate-lanceolate acuminate, enwrapping the ovary, shorter than or 

 about as long as the flowers ; lateral sepals spreading-ascending 

 concave ovate-lanceolate acute. 0-8-1 cm, long ; odd sepal erect 

 concave lanceolate acute, as long as the lateral ones ; petals erect 

 concave, in outline almost semi-orbicular, obscurely lacerate on 

 the margin, as long as the odd sepal ; limb of the lip deflexed, in 

 outline semi-orbicular, 1 •5-1-8 cm. broad, 21obed, the lobes 

 divaricate, lacerate on the margin, the appendix erect fleshy, 

 almost quadrate, excavate on each side at the apex ; rostellum 

 horizontal ; stigma bipartite. 



Described from several living and dried specimens ; the draw- 

 ing from a specimen collected on the Cape Peninsula. 



