sheathing bracts ; spike crowded subcapitate, at length elon- 

 gating, densely many-fl., bracts erect leaflike lanceolate acumi- 

 nate, about as long as the ovary ; side sepals erect-spreading 

 oblong obtuse concave apiculate below the apex, 4-5 mill, long ; 

 odd sepal cucullate, margin round the mouth much inflexed, 

 obtuse apiculate, produced at base into a slender arched and 

 spreading spur longer than the limb, and shorter than the 

 ovary ; petals included within the odd sepal, small rhomboidal 

 obtuse adnate to the column at base ; lip spreading linear-oblong 

 very obtuse, widened at base and clasping the column, 3"5 mill, 

 long ; anther reclinate, glands ovate approximate ; rostellum 

 very low ; stigma rather large cushioned 3-lobed. 



Described and drawn from a living specimen sent by Mr. 

 Galpin from Queenstown, and from numerous other living and 

 dried specimens, including Mr. MacOwan's type. Colour of the 

 flowers chiefly pure white, the sepals and petals with a few 

 purple spots. Under a lens they are velvety in texture. The 

 species somewhat resembles Brownleea in the setting of the 

 galea, and in its habit, but the resemblance is only superficial. 

 Most previous collectors have, apparently, found it somewhat 

 rare ; but I saw it in some quantity in a grassy sheltered kloof 

 of the Engcobo Mt. in Tembuland, in Jan. 1896. 



