puberulous towards the base, bearing one or two sheaths at the 

 base, distantly bifoHate, l-3fl. ; leaves spreading amplexicaul 

 cordate-ovate acute glabrous, 2-3 cm. long ; bracts leafy, spreading 

 or erect-spreading, as long as or shorter than the ovary ; lateral 

 sepals spreading, obliquely ovate, acuminate, furnished about the 

 middle with a short obtuse sac, 0*6 cm. long ; odd sepal galeate, 

 produced at the back into a conical hanging spur, 0"3 cm. long ; 

 petals shortly unguiculate, the blade obliquely broadly ovate, 

 acuminate falcate-incurved at the apex, 0*6 cm. long ; lip un- 

 guiculate, above the rostellum cur\-ed back into the spur of the 

 galea, suddenly galeate-cucuUate, at the base (of the lamina) 

 somewhat hastate auriculate, inflexed at the apex acuminate, 

 at the back produced into a gradually attenuated appendix 

 thickened at the apex emarginate-excised, suddenly bent back 

 into a narrow oblong obtuse ligule densely covered with elongate 

 piliform papilla, the claw of the lip 0'3 cm. long, the lamina 

 (allowing for the galea) with the process 0*1 cm. long (the 

 auriculate base 0'3 cm. wide), the papillose process of the ligule 

 0'2 cm. long ; the rostellum suborbicular in outline with the 

 margins reflexed, ver}- obtuse at the apex, the gland-bearing arms 

 porrect somewhat twisted, very long for the size of the rostellum. 

 (Fide R. Schlechter.) 



Described and the analytical figures drawn from two dried 

 specimens collected at Fort Brown. The figure of the entire plant 

 drawn by Mr. F. Bolus from one of the dried specimens. 



