raceme cylindrical, 2"5-10 cm. long, many-flowered, bracts 

 shaped like the leaves, herbaceous, spreading, about equalling or 

 exceeding the flowers ; flowers small, including the ovaries, about 

 1 cm. long ; side sepals ovate-lanceolate subacute, the odd sepal 

 wider and more concave, all nearly 4 mill, long ; petals lanceolate 

 oblique, a little longer than the sepals ; lip cuneate-ovate in out- 

 line, thick fleshy, 3-lobed towards the apex, the side lobes obtuse 

 ascending, middle lobe longer rounded deflexed, spur inflated 

 pendulous, shorter than the limb ; column half the length of the 

 lip ; arms of the rostellum short, projecting, with an intermediate 

 fold ; stigma large excavate ; ovary cylindrical, slender. 



Described from several living and dried specimens ; the draw- 

 ing made from a plant sent from Grahamstown by Mr. Glass. 

 Colour of the sepals dingy red, petals green, lip yellow, sometimes 

 with a central green stripe, anther purple. 



