An erect glabrous dwarf herb, black in the dried state, 7-15 

 cm, high ; stem straight or subflexuous, leafy at base ; leaves 

 spreading- or erect-spreading lanceolate, acuminate or acute, the 

 margin sometimes undulate, gradually decreasing in size upwards, 

 2'5-o cm. long; raceme usually somewhat lax, 4-12fl., the flowers 

 ascending ; bracts ovate acute, as long as or shorter than the 

 ovary ; lateral sepals spreading or spreading-deflexed, obliquely 

 lanceolate, acute, 0'8-0*9 cm. long ; odd sepal erect concave 

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

 in outline cuneate - obovate, the outer margin crispulate or 

 irregularly crenulate, about as long as the odd sepal ; limb of the 

 lip deflexed, 1 cm. wide, 31obed, the lateral lobes divaricate, in 

 outline somewhat orbicular, crenulate on the margin, the inter- 

 mediate lobe tooth-like lanceolate, the appendix erect, incurved at 

 the apex, rather narrow, lobed on each side above the middle ; the 

 gland-bearing arms of the rostellum ascending; anther very short. 



Described from several living and dried plants ; the drawing 

 from plants sent by Miss M. Farnham from Stellenbosch (Herb. 

 Norm. Aust.-Afr. , 387). 



