acuminate, marg-in undulate, sheathing at base 10-lG cm. long ; 

 spike cyHndrical or oblong, densely many-flowered ; bracts leaf- 

 like ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, usually as long as the flowers ; 

 lateral sepals projecting then deflexed, broadly oblong, obtuse, 

 apiculate below the apex, 1*5 cm. long ; odd sepal erect galeate 

 mouth orbicular somewhat depressed at the apex, produced 

 behind into a spreading-deflexed spur 1 cm. long; petals erect 

 lanceolate-falcate, 0*8 cm. long, incurved at the apex lobed at 

 the base in front, the lobe oblong and rounded ; lip projecting 

 spathulate-obovate convex above, 0'8 cm. long ; rostellum erect, 

 bifid ; anther resupinate ; ovary cylindrical, with prominent ribs. 



Described and drawn from living specimens. 



This is one of the commonest species of Orchids in the neigh- 

 bourhood of those suburbs of Cape Town which lie on the eastern 

 side of Table Mt,, and may be found almost every year in October. 

 It becomes less common the further we go eastward. 



