erectis rotundatis; parte anteriore concava, apice erecto- 
uncinata. Columna valde abbreviata, apice trilobulato, 
rostello late triangulo. 
Plant densely caespitose, 8-21 em. tall including 
the inflorescence. Roots fibrous, whitish, glabrous. 
Secondary stems upright or obliquely ascending, mono- 
phyllous, up to 7.5 em. long, entirely or for the most 
part concealed by tubular imbricating smooth evanescent 
sheaths. Sheaths up to 33 mm. long. Leaves oblanceolate 
or cuneate-spatulate, contracted gradually into a slender 
suleate petiole; lamina of the leaf 2.6—9.5 em. long, 
10-15.5 mm. wide, distinctly rounded at the tip, the 
mid-nerve continued into a short apicule; petiole up to 
17 mm. long, deeply sulcate. Raceme two to three times 
longer than the leaf, 8-18 cm. long, about 4 mm. in 
diameter, erect or slightly arcuate, many-flowered with 
the flowers maroon, approximate and conspicuously se- 
cund. Peduncle below the raceme 1.8-3.8 em. long, 
provided with several tubular persistent sheaths. Floral 
bracts more or less approximate, scarious, infundibuli- 
form, 2.5-8 mm. long. Pedicellate ovary declined, ex- 
ceeding the bracts. Sepals connate at the base, finely and 
thickly glandulose on the inner surface, 3-nerved. Lateral 
sepals round-ovate, obtuse, about 3 mm. long, 2—2.6 mm. 
wide, with the mid-nerve distinctly carinate on the outer 
surface and forming an apicule. Dorsal sepal somewhat 
longer and narrower, ovate, about 3 mm. long, 1.85—2. 1 
mm. wide, obtuse with a subapical thickening on the 
dorsal surface. Petals rhombic, sharply angled at the 
tip,mucronate, l-nerved,thickened along the upper edge, 
1 mm. long, 1 mm. wide. Labellum lanceolate in outline, 
1 mm. long; basal half conspicuously thickened with an 
obliquely erect lobule on each side; apical half triangular, 
concave, With an upturned more or less acute tip. Column 
minute, about 1 mm. long, trilobed at the summit with 
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