ovato-oblongo apice cucullato. Columna perbrevis, supra 
abrupte dilatata. 
Plant terrestrial. Roots fascicled, tuberous, lanuginose. 
Leaves mostly basal, rosulate, glabrous, two to four, oval 
to oblong-elliptic or oblanceolate, acute to short-acumi- 
nate, narrowed to a very short or rather long petiole; 
lamina up to about 12 cm. long and 3.5 cm. wide; peti- 
oles up to about 5.5 em. long, channelled, imbricating at 
the base. Seape slender, up to about 22 cm. tall, adorned 
with one small leaf near the base and with two to three 
remote tubular sheaths above, finely glandular-pubescent 
above and often to the base. Raceme up to about 9 cm. 
long, few- to many-flowered, very loose in anthesis. Floral 
bracts lanceolate, acuminate, up to about 9 mm. long, 
one half as long as the pedicellate ovary or less. Flowers 
small, lilac, with segments spreading in anthesis. Sepals 
lightly glandular-pubescent without. Dorsal sepal ellip- 
tic, gradually narrowed to an acute apex, about 7 mm. 
long and 2.8—-3 mm. wide, 3-nerved. Lateral sepals broad- 
ly ovate or elliptic-ovate, obtuse, oblique, about 7 mm. 
long and 4.5 mm. wide, 8- to 5-nerved. Petals adnate to 
the upper part of the column, long-clawed; lamina very 
obliquely oblong-triangular with a hastate base and a 
very oblique obtuse to subacute apex, about 5—5.5 mm. 
long; more or less minutely cellular-ciliate on the lateral 
margins; claw very slender, about 1.5-1.8 mm. long. 
Lip with a distinct claw which spreads from the column 
at a right angle (or is slightly ascending) and has a pair 
of erect triangular calli at its apex ; lamina conduplicate, 
sharply 3-lobed at the apex, abruptly and sharply cordate 
at base, about 3 mm. long, when expanded the basal por- 
tion is semiorbicular and about 3.8-4 mm. wide with the 
anterior margins truncate; mid-lobe small, ovate-oblong, 
apically cucullate, about 1 mm. long. Column very short, 
about 3.7 mm. long, abruptly much dilated above. 
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