densely many-flowered, 2*5-7 cm. long; bracts herbaceous, broadly 

 ovate or ovate, acute, usually exceeding- the ovary ; lateral sepals 

 porrect, ascending at the apex, membranous connate concave 

 suborbicular emarginate, 0'5 cm. long ; odd sepal erect-incurved 

 linear-oblong sulcate, a little longer than the lateral ones ; petals 

 erect concave, almost semi-orbicular, the margin involute, as long 

 as the odd sepal ; limb of the lip cuneate, widened towards the 

 apex, retuse, 0*2 cm. long, the appendix erect unguiculate, the 

 lamina bipartite, the segments horizontally divaricate rotundate ; 

 stigmas two ; ovary rostrate at the apex, 0-5-0*7 cm. long. 



Described from several dried and living specimens. The 

 drawing was made from plants collected on the Cape Peninsula. 



