An erect slender glabrous herb, 13-iO cm. high ; stem sub- 

 flexuous, distantly 3-4foliate, l-5fl. at the apex ; leaves erect, 

 linear- or oblong-lanceolate, acute, sheathing at base, 2-3 cm. long, 

 O'5-l cm. broad ; bracts leaf-like ovate acuminate, equalling or 

 exceeding the ovary ; lateral sepals divaricate, arcuate-decurved 

 towards the apex, lanceolate, long acuminate, up to 1*7 cm. in 

 length, spurred below the middle, the spurs obtuse, O'i-O'o cm. 

 long ; odd sepal galeate-fornicate, deflexed at the apex, long 

 acuminate, up to 1'7 cm. long; petals adhering to the galea by 

 their posterior margins, subfalcate clawed, the blade obliquely 

 lanceolate, long acuminate, furnished at the base of the anterior 

 margin with an auriculate lobe, about as long as the sepals ; lip 

 erect, adnate to the column, linear, 0*6 cm. long, with the 

 appendix bipartite, the anterior segment arcuate-porrect linear- 

 lanceolate acuminate, somewhat folded together, 0*9 cm. long, the 

 posterior segment incumbent over the rostellum, 0*5 cm. long, 

 ovate in outline, Slobed, lobes obtuse, the terminal longer and 

 narrower ; rostellum cucullate, in outline, when spread out, 

 suborbicular, emarginate at the apex, 0'7 cm. in diam., the arms 

 projecting forward, at the gland-bearing apex knee-bent erect, 

 O'o cm. long; stigma bipartite. 



Described from several living and dried specimens. The 

 drawing was made from plants gathered at Fort Cunynghame 

 {Bo/us 8739). 



