leaf-like erect-spreading acuminate imbricating sheaths ; spike 

 cylindrical slender, 9-22 cm. long, 2-3 cm. diam., somewhat laxly 

 many-flowered, flowers among the rather larger ones in the genus ; 

 bracts oblong lanceolate acuminate herbaceous reflexed usually 

 exceeding the flowers ; sepals spreading obovate-oblong obtuse, 

 the intermediate narrower, 0-8-1 cm. long ; petals somewhat 

 similar in shape ; lip galeate, mouth broadly oblong, apex free, 

 obtuse crisped, spurs pendulous filiform longer than the ovary ; 

 stipe of the column incurved ; as long as the cuneate-oblong 

 margined stigmatiferous lobe ; rostellum obovate in outline ,31obed, 

 lateral lobes tooth-like, intermediate much larger, shortly clawed 

 with a semi-orbicular limb ; glands of the poUinia horse-shoe 

 shaped. 



Described from several dried specimens and a living one sent 

 by Mr. Steytler from Knysna — from which the drawing was made. 



