drical, densely many-fi., 3-10 cm. long, bracts leaf-like very 

 acuminate, erect, longer than the flowers, sometimes twice as 

 long ; side sepals spreading or deflexed semi-ovate subacute, 

 mostly connate beyond the middle, sometimes becoming at length 

 separate, about 4 mill, long ; odd sepal (with the petals) galeate 

 ovate acute, as long as the side sepals, with a cylindrical arched 

 deflexed spur, very slightly swollen at the apex and about as long 

 as the limb ; petals obliquely ovate, somewhat waved on the front 

 margin, a little shorter than the galea ; lip minute, clasping the 

 column by its widened base, the limb free subulate spreading- 

 ascending, less than 1 mill, long ; rostellum ovate erect emar- 

 ginate, tuberculate on each side ; glands of the pollinia approxi- 

 mate ; stigma pulvinate ascending ; ovary cylindrical-clavate. 



Described from several living and dried specimens. Colour of 

 the flowers white, the spur and nerve of the petals greenish, the 

 anther with a little purple. The species is very distinct and 

 cannot be mistaken for any other. 



