(only a fragment in our specimen) woody. Roots fibrous, 
glabrous, elongate, slender, mostly simple. Stems lightly 
arcuate, 23-25.5 cm. long, 1-jointed near the terete base, 
4-angled below, gradually dilated and ancipitous-bialate 
above, with the middle part extending up about 2 cm. 
into the lamina of the leaf. Leaf solitary, rigidly erect, 
elliptic-oblong, obtuse, cuneate below with the sides de- 
current on the stem, about 10—10.5 cm. long in the cen- 
ter, 3.1-8.6 cm. wide, coriaceous. Inflorescences rising 
from the summit of the stem above the base of the leaf, 
very short, arcuate-recurved, few (about four), densely 
few-flowered. Floral bracts loosely infundibuliform and 
spreading, scarious. Flowers small, fleshy, densely fine- 
pubescent on the ovary and outer surface of the perianth, 
reddish wine-color. Dorsal sepal oblanceolate-oblong, 
broadly obtuse, 8-nerved, about 8.7 mm. long, 3-3.2 
mm. wide. Lateral sepals connate into a suborbicular 
lamina which is slightly bidentate at the broadly rounded 
apex, 6-nerved, more or less ciliolate, about 6 mm. long 
in the middle and 7.2 mm. wide when expanded. Petals 
smaller than the sepals, lanceolate-rhombic, broadly 
truncate or truncate-retuse at the apex, minutely den- 
ticulate except below the middle, lightly arcuate, 1- 
nerved and thickened through the middle, about 4 mm. 
long and 2.1 mm. wide across the middle. Lip very 
fleshy and arcuate-recurved in natural position, appar- 
ently ovate, the sides of the basal portion being erect 
with indistinct shallowly rounded lobules, about 3.5 mm. 
long in natural position, 3-nerved, broadly rounded in 
front, cuneate at the sessile base; disc with two indis- 
tinct fleshy ridges in the middle ones on each side. Col- 
umn small, arcuate, slender below, with a pair of rela- 
tively large semiorbicular, denticulate, porrect auricles 
above, about 3.5 mm. high at the back. 
This species seems to be rather closely allied to two 
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