2-3 distant short acute sheaths ; raceme laxly 6-15flowered, 

 flowers ascending- ; bracts lanceolate acuminate, much shorter 

 than the pedicellate ovary ; sepals spreading, finally reflexed 

 oblong- acute, 0-8 cm. long- ; petals wide-spreading, broadly ovate 

 obtuse, 0-9-1 cm. long: ; lip ovate in outline, near the base, with 

 a very shallow sac at the mouth of which are two tubercles, 

 Slobed, lateral lobes erect, adnate to the column for almost their 

 whole length, the middle lobe ovate acute or obtuse, arcuate- 

 incurved, the margins deflexed, tuberculate-cristate, tubercles in 

 3-5 rows, very much thickened ; column tetragonous, without a 

 projecting- foot. 



Described from two living, and several dried specimens. The 

 drawing was made from plants received from Grahamstown. 



