the primary nerves very prominent below, well developed during 

 the flowering period, 15-35 cm. long, up to 2-5 cm. broad ; scape 

 stout, clothed with rather distant acuminate membranous sheaths ; 

 raceme laxly 7-l.^)flowered, flowers spreading, at length nodding ; 

 bracts oblong-lanceolate shorter than the ovary ; sepals more 

 usually spreading, afterwards more rarely reflexed, oblong- 

 lanceolate, somewhat oblique, spotted, 1-2-1 -4 cm. long; petals 

 through the twisting of the claw more or less reversed, somewhat 

 rhomboid-orbicular, as long as the sepals ; lip about as long as 

 the petals, Slobed, lateral lobes erect, oblong-obovate, 0*5-0-7 cm. 

 long, intermediate convex oblong-obovate tuberculate-cristate, 

 the tubercles inconspicuous, 0-8-1 '1 cm. long, spur somewhat 

 obconic, placed at the junction of the lobes, about 0*3 cm. long ; 

 column oblong without a projecting foot, 0'6-0-9 cm. long; pollinia 

 oblong, affixed to an oblong stipe 0*3 cm. long ; ovary with the 

 pedicel 1*5-2 cm. long; capsule cylindrical, narrowed at the base, 

 4 cm. long. 



Described from several living and dried specimens ; the figure 

 drawn from a plant which flowered in Mrs. C. E. Geard's garden 

 at Graaff" Reinet in November, 1890. 



