7, lip and column, back view ; 8, pollinium — all variously 

 magnified. 



An erect glabrous herb, 10-35 cm. high ; stem straight or 

 subflexuous, leafy, lea\ es erect-spreading or incurved at the apex, 

 linear-lanceolate acuminate semi-amplexicaul, 2'.5-8 cm. long, the 

 radical ones numerous linear-filiform, up to 6 cm. long ; spike 

 oblong or cylindrical, laxly or densely many-flowered, the flowers 

 spreading or erect-spreading, inverted ; bracts leaf-like lanceolate 

 acuminate, exceeding the ovary ; lateral sepals ascending concave, 

 obliquely ovate, acute, 0*8-l*2 cm. long; odd sepal slightly 

 cohering with the petals, deflexed lanceolate acute, 1-1-3 cm. long; 

 petals shortly clawed, subfalcate, the limb obliquely ovate, obtuse, 

 the outer margin incurved, as long as the odd sepal ; lip posticous 

 exappendiculate clawed, the claw deflexed oblong, 0'4 cm. long, 

 the lamina in outline subreniform, auriculate, shortlv acute at the 

 apex, tuberculate on the upper surface, 0*4 cm. long ; arms of the 

 rostellum erect or erect-incurved, 0-(3 cm. long ; ovarv cvlindrical, 

 0'8-l*4: cm. long. 



Described from several dried and living specimens. The 

 drawing was made from a plant brought by Mr. C. B. Fair from 

 the Constantiaberg. 



M 2 



