An erect, robust, glabrous herb, 25-40 cm. high ; stem stout, 

 closely leafy ; leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, acute, sheathing at 

 base, 5-10 cm. long ; racemes densely many-flowered, 6-14 cm. 

 long ; bracts leaf-like conspicuous, ovate shorter than the 

 ovary and pedicel ; side sepals spreading, at length reflexed, 

 lanceolate-oblong, 1-2 cm. long, odd sepal widely elliptical, 

 galeate, I'l cm. long ; petals obliquely broad-ovate, the posterior 

 margin more or less inflexed, as long as the odd sepal ; lip 

 projecting forward, 1*8 cm. long, 3fid, the lateral segments 

 filiform 0*2 cm. long, the intermediate linear-oblong, margins 

 revolute, 4-6 times longer than the lateral segments, produced at 

 base into a long pendulous spur inflated at the apex and shorter 

 than the pedicellate ovary ; clinandrium rotundate at the apex ; 

 rostelUim trilobed, intermediate lobe erect obtuse, the lateral ones 

 bearing the caudicles of the pollinia, declinate short and broad ; 

 stigmatiferous processes as long as the latter, widened and 

 rounded at the apex. 



Described from several dried specimens and a living plant 

 collected at Emerald Hill, near Port Elizabeth, from which the 

 drawinsf was made. 



