5, column, side view ; 6, ditto, front view ; 7, ditto, back view ; 

 8, pollinarium. 



An erect robust glabrous herb, 20-50 cm. high ; stem straight 

 stout leafy ; leaves 'erect-spreading linear-lanceolate acute, 

 10-18 cm. long ; spike cylindrical densely many-flowered, 8-25 cm. 

 long, 2*5-3 -5 cm. in diameter ; bracts erect-spreading, leaf-like 

 lanceolate acute, usually shorter than the flowers ; lateral sepals 

 deflexed oblong obtuse, 1 cm. long ; odd sepal cucullate-galeate, 

 mouth obovate-oblong, produced at base into a pendulous inflated 

 very obtuse spur, much shorter than the ovary ; petals erect, 

 obliquely ovate-oblong, widened dorsally at the base ; lip deflexed 

 linguiform obtuse, as long as the sepals ; rostellum ascending, 

 the gland-bearing arms obtuse, provided with spreading-reflexed 

 wings, the cleft between it and the stigma obsolete ; anther 

 strongly resupinate ; gland solitary, semi-lunate. 



Described from several dried specimens and a living one, 

 gathered near Ceres, from which the drawing was made. This 

 was more prettily coloured than those I had seen near Cape Town. 

 It had a very heavy and unpleasant odour. 



