out ; 6, ditto, with column and ovary, side view ; 7, column, 

 front view ; 8, ditto, side view ; 9, poUinarium, front view ; 10, 

 ditto, side view ; all variously mag'nified. 



An erect glabrous robust herb, up to 55 cm. high; rhizome large 

 tuberous ; leaves 3-4, well developed during the flowering period, 

 erect linear — or lanceolate-ensiform long-acuminate, the primary 

 nerves very prominent on the lower surface, longer than the scape ; 

 scape straight or more rarely somewhat flexuous with 3-4 rather 

 rigid imbricating sheaths ; raceme oblong obtuse, with numerous 

 crowded nodding flowers, 6-15 cm. long; bracts linear-lanceolate 

 setaceous-acuminate, longer than the ovary ; sepals declinate, the 

 lateral obliquely ovate acute or acuminate, odd one lanceolate- 

 oblong acuminate, 1'2-1*5 cm, long; petals obliquely oblanceolate, 

 sometimes rather obtuse, sometimes acute, shorter than the sepals, 

 1-1*2 cm. long ; lip spurless broadly obovate in outline, very 

 shortly clawed, a little shorter than the sepals, Slobed, the lateral 

 erect rotundate, intermediate somewhat cochleariform at the apex, 

 inconspicuously tuberculate-crested, twice as long and broad as the 

 lateral lobes ; column oblong, attenuate at the apex, somewhat 

 apiculate, produced at base into a projecting foot ; pollinia ovoid ; 

 stipe very short ; ovary with the pedicel 0'7-l"l cm. long. 



Described from several living and dried specimens. 



