Plate 84. Fig-. 1, flower, front view ; 2, ditto, side \ iew ; 

 3, ditto, back view ; 4, side sepals ; 5, one of the petals ; 6, odd 

 sepal — all x 3 diams. ; 7, limb of the lip x 6 ; 8, column and lip, 

 side view ; 9, ditto, front view ; 10, ditto, back view ; 11, ditto, 

 one of the side lobes of the lip-appendage cut off in the middle to 

 shew the stigma, s, and the g^land, ^, on the one side ; 12, ditto, 

 shewing- the same on the other side, r, the rostellum ; 13, poUinia 

 — variously magnified. 



An erect glabrous herb, black when dried, 15-10 cm. high ; 

 stem straig-ht leafy ; leaves erect-spreadingf lanceolate acuminate, 

 prominently nerved, subplicate, 5-15 cm. long- ; spike oblongs or 

 cylindrical, densely many-flowered, the flowers suberect ; bracts 

 herbaceous lanceolate acuminate, exceeding the flowers; lateral 

 sepals spreading--deflexed connate concave suborbicular, excised at 

 the apex, 5 cm. long- ; odd sepal erect-incurved, lanceolate- or 

 ovate-oblongs, sulcate, as long- as the lateral sepals ; petals incum- 

 bent concave, suborbicular in outline, as long- as the odd sepal ; 

 limb of the lip porrect rotundate-cuneate, truncate at the apex, 

 reflexed or very shortly excised, 0"3 cm. long-, the appendix erect 

 unguiculate, the lamina bipartite, the seg-ments divaricate revolute, 

 0"4 cm. long; ovary shortly rostrate, 0*8-1 -2 cm. long. 



Described from several dried specimens and a living one sent 

 from Grahamstown by Dr. Schonland, from which the drawing 

 was made. 



