A dwarf plant, forming little patches by its fleshy, 
ovate, ribbed, rugose bulbs, which are generally quite 
naked. Leaves terminal, on the end of the bulbs, solitary, 
coriaceous, dark green, lanceolate, stalked; the stalk 
thick, round, channelled on the upper side. Spike 2 or 
3-flowered, much shorter than leaves, proceeding from the 
axilla of the terminal leaf before the scales of the bulb fall 
off. Flowers pink. Outer sepals ovate-oblong: the lateral 
with a broad base, carinate at back, somewhat saccate at 
base; the inner membranous, oblong, with a short claw. 
Labellum at the back, prostrate on the columna, three- 
lobed; the lateral lobes erect, reddish, veiny, the inter¬ 
mediate obtuse and spreading; the claw with two raised 
pale crests; the lamina with 3 yellowish orange-coloured 
crests. Anther terminal, opercular, deciduous, roundish, 
yellowish, a little purple at back, 2-celled; each cell being 
half divided in two. Pollen-masses 8, cohering at the end 
by a viscid matter, but with no gland. Stigma oblong, 
transverse. 
J. L. 
