column erect, cells of the anther parallel with a fold of the 

 rostellum placed between, glands somewhat approximate. 



The drawing of the whole plant is a copy of one by the late 

 Mr. Sanderson, of Natal, made from life; the analytical parts 

 and the description are from one of Mr. Wood's dried specimens. 

 General colour of the flowers purplish rose, with darker spots in 

 various places. This species is a South-African representative 

 of the group of East Indian orchids which Sir Joseph Hooker, in 

 the Flora of British India, regards as Habenariae, and has 

 called Phyllostachya, characterised chiefly by large flowers in 

 the axils of sheathing leaves, by the absence of stigmatic pro- 

 cesses, and by a greatly reduced rostellum. 



