stiff, cylindric, many-flowered ; flowers crowded ; peduncle 
and rachis pale green and glaucous ; bracts small, triangular. 
Perianth two-thirds of an inch long from the tip of the upper 
sepal to that of the spur; bright rose-red, except the almost 
white spur. Dorsal sepals orbicular, concave ; lateral ones 
larger, obovate-oblong, with broad, rounded tips, and a dark 
rose-purple spot at their bases. Petals obovate, with rounded 
tips, smaller than the lateral sepals. Lip reduced to three 
teeth at the mouth of the cylindric, compressed, obtuse, 
straight spur, which is slightly faleate and rather contracted 
below the mouth. Column very short, with a slender, 
subulate rostellum.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, spur and column :—both magnified, 
