alt. 1850 met., Febr., Scully, 405; Perie Forest, Nov.-Dec, Sim; 

 Bazija, Kaffraria, alt. 1250 met., Febr., nmir, 630 ; near Kokstad, 

 Tijson, 1600.— Natal : Sanderson, 564 ; Inanda, alt. 750 met. March, 

 Wood, 478 ; summit of Olivier's Hoek Pass, Jan., Wood, 3425. 



Plate 18. Fig. 1, flower, side view; 2, ditto, front view; 3, odd 

 sepal ; 4, one of the side sepals ; 5, flower, with the sepals removed ; 

 6, one of the petals; 7, lip; 8, column with petals; 9, column ; 10, one 

 of the pollinia; 11, column with lip, from another plant; 12, rostellum, 

 side view ; 13, ditto, front view, — all variously magnified. 



A herb 15-45 cm. high ; stem slender erect leafy ; leaves 

 crowded towards the base, ligulate acute spreading, 5-8 cm. long, 

 passing into remote bracts ; spike cylindrical many-fl., 5-10 cm. 

 long, bracts herbaceous ovate acuminate shorter than the flowers; 

 sepals ovate concave acute, about 7 mill, long ; petals lanceolate 

 acute incurved, 4-5 mill, long ; lip about as long as the sepals, 

 rough with minute shining papillae, obovate in outline, deeply 

 3-fid, the segments oblong sub-equal or the intermediate a little 

 broader, spur cylindrical or somewhat inflated, compressed 

 dorsally, straight, about as long as the limb; ovary cylindrical 

 straight, not twisted, more or less exceeding in length the spur. 



Described from two living specimens received from Mr. Sim, 

 from the Perie Forest, and from numerous dried specimens. 

 The colour of the flowers was bright yellow, the lip a deeper 

 yellow, petals pale but not white. Bonder, however, describes 

 the flowers as white, and Baur says " flowers beautiful white, lip 

 golden yellow with small dark dots." I have never seen a type 

 specimen of Ecklon and Zeyher's, but the plants I have examined 

 agree well with the description of Sonder, whom I have always 

 found carefully accurate. I suppose this to be a very variable 

 species. Tyson's and Scully's specimens most resemble the 

 plant I have drawn. Wood's and Sanderson's are taller and 

 slenderer in proportion, with narrower and more distant leaves, 

 but there is hardly any difference in the flowers. S. Bulhinella, 

 mild, has a denser spike of smaller flowers with the lip less 

 divided, and a proportionately much smaller spur. Of S. Gerrardi, 

 mihi, {Brachycorythis Gerrardi, Fieichenhach fil.) I have seen no 

 authenticated specimens. 



