An erect slender glabrous herb, 8-20 cm. high ; stem sub- 

 flexuous, bifoliate at base; leaves erect, subapproximate or distant, 

 sheathing at base, linear acute, 5-10 cm. long ; spike laxly 2-lOfl., 

 flowers ascending ; bracts leaf-like, enwrapping the ovary, 

 lanceolate acute, the lower ones much longer than the flowers, the 

 upper ones becoming gradually smaller, equalling the ovary ; 

 lateral sepals divaricate, obliquely lanceolate in outline, 0*7-0-8 

 cm. long, spurred in the middle, the spurs subquadrate, 0*2 cm. 

 long ; odd sepal, erect, deflexed at the apex, acuminate, depressed 

 galeate, obtusely saccate at the back ; petals adhering to the 

 galea, falcate, shortly unguiculate, semi-ovate acuminate, 0'6 cm. 

 long ; lip erect linear, the appendix 2partite, anterior segment 

 projecting forward and decurved, ascending at the apex, ovate 

 acute concave, papillose within, posterior segment incumbent over 

 the rostellum, ascending at the apex, hispid linear obtuse ; rostellum 

 convex, the gland-bearing arms subdivaricate twisted ; stigma 

 2partite, placed behind the rostellary arms. 



Described from several living and dried specimens. The 

 drawing was made from plants collected on the Cape Peninsula. 



