long ; spike oblong or narrow ovate, densely many-fl., 1-5-2-5 cm. 

 long, bracts acuminate longer than the flowers ; flowers some- 

 what bent downwards, about 2-5-3 mill, long ; sepals connivent 

 ovate-lanceolate subobtuse, the odd one more concave and slightly 

 gibbous at the base ; petals semi-ovate, the exterior margin 

 undulate; lip somewhat fleshy spoon-shaped inflated at base, 

 rather widened at the apex, margins incurved undulate and 

 irregularly crenulate, furnished at the base within with 2 parallel 

 linear ridges ; anther rounded ; rostellum bipartite, the segments 

 subulate acuminate ; pollinia pear-shaped, stipes strap-shaped 

 dilated towards the apex ; gland very small. 



Described and drawn from several dried specimens, the flowers 

 from specimens freshly preserved in glycerine and sent by 

 Mr. Wood from Natal. I have also availed myself in part of Mr. 

 Schlechter's description and analytical drawings, kindly placed 

 at my disposal. Colour of sepals and petals white, the lip golden 

 yellow. One of Mr. Schlechter's numerous discoveries, the more 

 interesting as the representative of a genus new to South Africa 

 and only the third species of the tribe Neottieae known within 

 our limits. The author states that it resembles Z. sulcata, 

 Lindley (from India and China), but in habit only, while its 

 flowers recall those of some Spiranthes. Growing with it its 

 discoverer found also a new species of Disperis, D. stenofjlossa, 

 Schlechter, nearly allied to D. Woodii, mihi. 



