acuminate, 2-7 cm. loni^, cauline passing oflf into acuminate 

 sheaths ; raceme corymbose, 3-15flowered, 2-6 cm, in diameter ; 

 bracts erect herbaceous lanceolate acute, usually shorter than the 

 ovary ; lateral sepals spreading- ovate-oblong, rather obtuse 

 mucronate below the apex, 1'1-1*4 cm. long; odd sepal horizontal 

 resupinate cucullate, towards the apex compressed and keeled, 

 narrowed at the base, ecalcarate : petals resupinate unguiculate 

 with an oblong lamina, incurved and lacerate-dentate at the apex, 

 0"8-l cm. long ; lip posticous porrect subulate acute or acuminate, 

 bilobulate near the base, shortly unguiculate, as long as the petals; 

 rostellum Globed, the middle resupinate, shorter than the lateral 

 gland-bearing lobes ; stigma large. 



Described from several dried specimens and a living one 

 collected on the Cape Peninsula, from which the drawing 

 was made. 



