Duscer. Rhizomes slender, tufted, creeping amongst moss 
on tree trunks and on the ground, bearing ovoid green 
tubercles a quarter of an inch long. Leaves solitary, one to 
three inches long, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, narrowed 
into a slender stiff petiole of about the same length, acute, 
flaccid, membranous, waved, midrib strong; nerves very 
slender, oblique, branching and reticulate. Scape twice as 
long as the leaves, slender, erect, wiry, about five-flowered, 
bearing three to five very slender erect linear or filiform 
leaves a quarter to a half inch long; bracts about 
as long, oblong and obtuse, or lanceolate. Flowers droop- 
ing ; pedicels very slender. Sepals one-half to three- 
quarters of an inch long, ovate, obtuse, pale greenish or 
reddish. Corolla one and three-quarters to two inches in 
diameter, beautifully ciliolate all round, pale lilac with a 
yellow palate; upper lip nearly rounded, rather cuneate at 
the base, very much and loosely undulate; lower nearly 
three times as large, much broader than long, obcordate, or 
very broadly wedge-shaped with rounded angles, raised 
along the middle line by a mesial fold reaching to the 
palate, which is glabrous, almost horseshoe-shaped, with 
high rounded borders. Spur incurved, shorter than the 
lower lip.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower seen in front; 2, side view of lower lip and spur; 3, stamens; 4 
ovary :—ali enlarged, 
