cm. long ; panicle terminal pedunculate laxly many-flowered, 

 flowers ascending- ; bracts ovate membranaceous minute ; sepals 

 with the petals spreading, oblono- obtuse or sub-acute, 1'7-2'1 cm, 

 long ; petals like the sepals but a little broader and shorter ; lip 

 orbicular in outline, 2-31amellate, as long as the petals ; Slobed, 

 lateral erect ovate obtuse, intermediate obovate very obtuse, some- 

 what recurved ; column oblong acute, produced at base into a 

 projecting foot ; operculum Slobulate ; pollinia spheroid, affixed 

 by a very short stipe to the broad gland ; ovary with the pedicel 

 2-3*5 cm. long. 



Described from one living specimen which flowered in the 

 Botanic Gardens, Cape Town, and several dried ones. The 

 markings on the perianth are very variable — being present in a 

 greater or less degree, and sometimes, as in the case of the plant 

 drawn, being quite absent. 



