acuminate, 5-10 cm. long ; spike cylindrical, rather laxly many- 

 flowered, flowers ascending ; bracts erect membranous, reticulately 

 veined, broadly ovate, with a long twisted cusp, usually longer 

 than the flowers ; lateral sepals deflexed oblong obtuse, 0*6 cm. 

 long ; odd sepal erect galeate-concave, mouth obovate or oblong, 

 about as long as the lateral, produced at the back into a pendulous 

 filiform spur, a little shorter than or as long as the ovary ; petals 

 erect, obliquely ovate, subfalcate subacute, 0'5 cm. long : lip 

 deflexed fleshy oblong-ligulate obtuse, 0*6 cm. long ; rostellum 

 erect subquadrate, tuberculate on each side, with a slight cleft 

 between it and the stigma ; anther resupinate ; gland of the 

 pollinia solitary. 



Described from several dried specimens and a living one 

 collected by Dr. R. Schlechter in Montagu Pass, from which 

 also the drawing was made. 



This species was figured in the " Orchids of the Cape Peninsula," 

 under Tab. 16, as D. reticulata Bolus, 



