A glabrous erect herb, 1-1| feet high ; stem slender straightish 

 few-leaved ; leaves 2-4, somewhat distant erect-spreading, lan- 

 ceolate or oblong acute, the lower 6-12 cm. long, the upper 

 gradually smaller ; spike narrow, loosely 5-10-fi., bracts ovate 

 acuminate, almost as long as the flowers ; sepals lanceolate 

 acuminate, 7-9 mill, long, the side ones spreading, the odd one 

 erect and somewhat bent downward ; petals erect oblong acute, 

 obscurely toothed at the apex, a little shorter than the sepals 

 and incurved above the column ; lip anticous horizontally pro- 

 jecting or bent downward, somewhat longer than the sepals, the 

 claw boat-shaped nearly as long as the blade, the blade suborbi- 

 cular obtuse or cuspidate, minutely crenulate, traversed in the 

 middle by a longitudinal coloured scarcely elevated callus ; 

 column erect subcylindrical ; anther terminal ovate, cells 

 parallel, without tubercles ; rostellum folded between the cells 

 of the anther ; glands of the pollinia ovate, approximate in the 

 bud, during flowering retracted and almost hidden under the 

 base of the rostellum ; stigma in front of the column depressed 

 with a raised margin ; ovary somewhat prismatic, with promi- 

 nent ribs. 



Described and drawn from living plants sent by Mr. Sim from 

 the Dohne Mt. I have since seen it growing in many places in 

 Fingoland and Tembuland, and it is clearly a widely-distributed 

 plant, ranging from the Amatola Mts. to the Houtbosch in the 

 northern part of the Trans-Vaal. The colour of the sepals is 

 green with brown tints, petals bright green with translucent 

 dots, lip white with a broad pale purple medial band. Mr. 

 Schlechter regards this species as the type of a new genus, as 

 quoted in the synonymy above. The only divergence from the 

 older species of Brachycorythis which I have been able to find is 

 that in the latter (or, at least, in B. ovata, see preceding plate) 

 the stigma is depressed or excavate from the general level of the 

 column, while in this species the stigma is raised as a whole 

 above the general level of the column, and the stigmatic surface 

 is then hollowed out. To this may be added that the column is 

 a little longer. Apart from this, the general similarity in the 

 type of the flower, and especially of the lip, to Brachycorythis 

 is, I think, somewhat striking. 



