Plant small, slender, branching, epiphytic, about 17.5 
cm. tall from the base of the stem to the tip of an erect 
leaf. Roots numerous, fibrous, glabrous, near or at the 
very base of the stem. Stems about 10 cm. or less high, 
consisting of short mostly strict branches; branches slen- 
der or somewhat thickened above, entirely concealed by 
imbricating tubular evanescent sheaths of which the up- 
per three or four are leaf-bearing. Leaves erect-ascending, 
linear, mucronate at the apex, clasping at the sessile con- 
duplicate base, up to 7.5 em. long and 5 mm. wide, shin- 
ing. Inflorescences terminal on the upper branches, soli- 
tary, pendent, racemose, about 8.6 cm. or less long; pe- 
duncle very short, bearing several small lanceolate long- 
attenuate bracts; racemes subdensely many-flowered, 
about 8 cm. or less long. Floral bracts lanceolate, long- 
attenuate, exceeding one half of the slender glabrous 
pedicellate ovary. Flowers very small, ‘‘dark blue,’’ with 
widespreading or reflexed segments. Dorsal sepal oval 
or oblong-elliptic, obtuse, prominently 1-nerved with a 
pair of short lateral indistinct nerves, about 3.4 mm. 
long and 2 mm. wide. Lateral sepals similar, subacute, 
lightly oblique, slightly broader above, about 3.8 mm. 
long and 2 mm. wide. Petals much narrower than the 
sepals, obliquely lanceolate, subacute, about 8.5 mm. 
long and 1.2 mm. wide, 1-nerved, with somewhat irreg- 
ular margins. Lip adnate to the base of the column, 
transverse, from an abbreviated broadly cuneate claw 
abruptly dilated into the lamina, about 4.2 mm. long; 
lamina distinctly 3-lobed in front, subcordate at base, 
about 6 mm. wide, with irregular margins; lateral lobes 
relatively large, obliquely ovate-rounded, horizontally 
spreading; mid-lobe relatively small, semiorbicular, 
about 1 mm. long and 2 mm. wide at base, 3-nerved 
with the lateral nerves branching. Column small, about 2 
mm. high. Anther 2-celled, with each cell 2-cham- 
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