Folia erecto-patentia, e petiolo brevi ligulata vel oblan- 
ceolato-ligulata, apice rotundata vel apiculata, 8-18 em. 
longa, supra medium 1.8—-2.3 cm. lata, saturate viridia, 
supra nitentia, secus medium leviter canaliculata, subtus 
leviter carinata. Scapus e basi pseudobulbi ortus, rectus 
vel leviter curvatus, folia aequans vel brevior, usque ad 
15 cm. altus; pedunculus 4-6 cm. longus, teres, viridis, 
cataphyllis 5-8, laxe ochreatis, acutis, 7-10 mm. longis 
fere omnino vestitus; rhachis anceps, leviter fractiflexa, 
5-10 cm. longa, 2.5-8 mm. lata, viridis; bracteae disti- 
chae, patentes, imbricatae, ovato-cymbiformes sed valde 
lateraliter compressae, apice leviter incurvatae, 9-18 mm. 
longae, 5—6 mm. latae, fusco-purpureae, glabrae. Flores 
sessiles, quam bracteae multo breviores, purpurei vel 
virides purpureo-maculati, semiclausi. Sepaluwm interme- 
dium incurvatum, valde concavum, triangulari-ovatum, 
apice acutum, apiculatum leviter cucullatum, circiter 4 
mm. longum, 1.8—-2 mm. latum; sepala lateralia oblique 
ovata, apice faleatim decurvata, acuminata, fere 4 mm. 
longa, circiter 2.5 mm. lata; omnia sepala subcarnosa, 
viridia, intus purpureo-notata. Petala linearia, leviter 
faleatim curvata, apice obtusa vel subacuta, 2.8 mm. 
longa, 0.8 mm. lata, viridia vel purpurea. Labellum valde 
carnosum, sectione semiteres, ambitu ellipticum, supra 
leviter excavatum, medio canaliculatum, subtus valde 
convexum, utrinque ala angustissima denticulata instruc- 
tum, apice verrucosum, circiter 2 mm. longum, 1.6—1.7 
mm. latum, saturate purpureum. Columna semiteres, 
2.3 mm. alta, superne anguste alata, stelidiis ovatis acutis 
antheram aequantibus; anthera cucullata, ambitu ellip- 
tica, antice breviter producta; fovea stigmatica quadrata, 
antice labio prominente instructa; Ovarium crassum, V1Xx 
angulatum, deorsum angustatum, 2 mm. longum. 
Nigeria: Benin Prov., Okomu Forest Reserve, near Nikrowa, in 
high forest on crown branches of fallen Corynanthe, Dec. 1947, cult. 
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