spreading, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 9-30 cm. long, passing 

 upward into sheaths ; spike cylindrical, 4-10 cm. long, 2-2*5 cm. 

 wide, densely many-flowered, flowers ascending ; bracts sub- 

 membranous, ovate-lanceolate acuminate, shorter than the flowers; 

 lateral sepals spreading-deflexed, oblong obtuse, 0'6 cm. long ; 

 odd sepal erect, cucullate-galeate, mouth obovate elliptical, 

 produced behind above the base into a pendulous clavate spur, a 

 little shorter than the limb. Petals erect spathulate-obovate, 

 0*4 cm. long. Lip deflexed, linear obtuse, about as long as the 

 petals ; rostellum erect, Slobed, gland-bearing lobes very short, 

 the intermediate larger, obtuse ; anther erect. 



Described from one living and several dried specimens. 



