met., fl. Dec, R. Schlechter, 4088! Witbank district, Middelburgf, 

 fl. Dec, D. F Gilftllan (No. 7243 in herb. Galpin !) ; Mac-a-Mac, 

 near Lydenburjj, Mtidd\ (No. 5984 in my herb.) 



Plate 61. Figr- 1) flower, front view ; 2, ditto, side view ; 

 3, column, front view ; 4, ditto, side view ; 5, sepals and petals ; 

 6, one of the poilinia. 



An erect, rather robust, or sometimes slender herb ; 20-53 cm. 

 hig-h ; stem straig-ht leafy ; produced leaves 2-3, erect narrow 

 lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 3 nerved carinate, the uppermost 

 sheath-like subobtuse, 5-15 cm. long ; spike oblong- densely many- 

 flowered, all the ang-les scabrid, 5-10 cm. long, 1 •5-3-5 cm. broad ; 

 flowers erect-spreading, among the smaller ones in the genus, 

 white ; bracts widely spreading, green and leaf-like at base, white 

 towards the apex, lanceolate acuminate, much exceeding the 

 flowers ; lateral sepals falcate-oblong, spreading decurved obtuse, 

 O-3-0'5 cm. long, the intermediate ligulate very obtuse, equally 

 long ; petals same shape and about as long ; lip galeate, apex 

 free porrect, or erect, spurs conical pendulous abbreviate, about 

 half as long as the ovary ; stipe of the column elongate, slender 

 incurved ; rostellum transversely oblong, obscurely 3denticulate 

 at the apex, intermediate tooth bifid ; lobus stigmatiferus sub- 

 rhomboidal rotundate at the apex, twice as long as the rostellum ; 

 ovary scaberulous. 



Described from several living and dried specimens. 



This species is widely distributed in the eastern part of S. 

 Africa, but is markedly absent in the western. It may usually be 

 recognised by its large wide-spreading pale bracts and white 

 flowers. 



