DESCRIPTION:--An acaulescent plant. _Leaves_ rosulate, radical; lower leaves spathulate-oblong, about 5 cm. long; the upper leaves becoming gradually smaller and broadly ovate; all with cartilaginous-ciliated margins. _Peduncle_ scape-like, glabrous. _Flowers_ in peduncled cymes, arranged in a panicle on a common peduncle. _Pedicels_ about 2 mm. long. _Calyx_ half as long as the corolla; lobes lanceolate-oblong, ciliate. _Petals_ obovate-oblong, with a dorsal apiculus just below the apex. _Stamens_ 5, almost as long as the petals and alternating with them. _Glands_ of 5 scales opposite the carpels. _Carpels_ 5; styles short; stigmas capitate. (National Herb. Pretoria, No. 2859.) PLATE 167.--Fig. 1, median longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 2, carpels; Fig. 3, stamens. F.P.S.A., 1925. [Illustration: 168.] PLATE 168. LISSOCHILUS SPECIOSUS. _Cape Province, Natal, Transvaal._ ORCHIDACEAE. Tribe Vandeae. LISSOCHILUS, _R. Br._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 536. * * * * * =Lissochilus speciosus=, _R. Br._ ex _Lindl. Coll. Bot._ t. 31; _Fl. Cap._ vol. v. sect. iii. p. 59. * * * * * _Lissochilus speciosus_ is one of the more common species of the genus and has a wide range of distribution. It is found in the Uitenhage Division, and then follows the coastal belt northwards, through the Transkei into Natal, and up to the northern spurs of the Drakensbergen in the Transvaal. The species has also been recorded from Mazoe in Rhodesia. Robert Brown’s genus _Lissochilus_, which he founded in 1821, was based on this species. But the late Dr. H. Bolus placed it in the genus _Eulophia_, and redescribed the plant as _Eulophia speciosa_ in 1890, and figured it under the same name in 1911 (_Orchids of South Africa_, vol. ii. t. 13). The specimen from which our plate was made was found by Misses H. Forbes and S. Gower at Isipingo, Natal, and grown at the Division of Botany, Pretoria. It is common all along the slopes of the sandhills of the Southern Natal coast.