Plate 44. Fig. 1, flower, side view, the sepals removed ; 

 2, ditto, front view ; 2a, one of the petals ; 3, side sepals, with 

 front lobe of petals, lip and stigmatiferous processes connate in 

 one piece, the spur cut off; 4, ditto, viewed obliquely from above — 

 all the latter natural size ; 5, column, stigmat. processes cut off, 

 x2 ; 6, ditto, front view ; 7, one of the side sepals, nat. size ; 

 8, one of the pollinia, mag. To the right is a reduced sketch of 

 the whole plant. 



An erect robust glabrous herb, 30-80 cm. high ; stem stout 

 closely leafy ; leaves oblong or ovate-oblong acute or acuminate, 

 sheathing at the base, 6-15 cm. long ; racemes densely many- 

 flowered, 10-20 cm. long, flowers ascending ; bracts conspicuous 

 foliaceous, broadly ovate, acuminate convolute, shorter than the 

 pedicellate ovaries ; lateral sepals semi-ovate acute spreading, 

 finally reflexed, 1 •9-2-2 cm. long, the odd sepal galeate broadly 

 ovate 1*7-1 "9 cm. long; petals bipartite, the posterior segments 

 erect falcate, adhering to and as long as the odd sepal, the 

 anterior free narrower, 2'2-2'4 cm. long ; lip 3-3'o cm. long, 

 spreading-deflexed, provided with an erect tooth-like process 

 placed in front of the orifice of the spur, 3fid, segments 

 linear acute, the lateral 2-2-5 cm. long, intermediate a little shorter 

 abruptly bent ; spur pendulous inflated at the apex, as long as the 

 pedicellate ovary ; clinandrium erect cucuUate, viewed from the 

 side falcate apiculate, 0-9-1 cm. long ; rostellum a little shorter, 

 free cucullate complicate, when flattened out, suborbicular in 

 outline, 31obed, the free part of the caudiculiferous arms short, 

 the intermediate lobe longer obtuse, spaces between the lobes 

 ciliolate ; pollinia clavate, glands small ; stigmatiferous processes 

 projecting forward linear, a little dilated and rounded at the apex, 

 1-3-1-6 cm. long ; ovary and pedicel 4-5 cm. long. 



Described from several dried specimens and one living plant 

 which flowered in a garden in Grahamstown, and was sent to me 

 by Dr. Schonland. It was originally gathered at the Kowie R. 

 Mouth. 



