An erect glabrous herb, 14-25 cm. high ; leaves radical, several ; 

 oblanceolate acute membranous and sheathing at base, 8-5 cm. 

 long, ill the broader part 0'8-l*l cm. wide ; stem slender, some- 

 what straight, clothed with 4-7 erect herbaceous sheaths, with 

 somewhat membranous margins, closely embracing the stem ; 

 raceme usuaUy very laxly 2-5flowered, the pedicels slender 

 elongate ; bracts like the sheaths often coloured on the margins, 

 much shorter than the ovary ; flowers spreading, among the 

 medium-sized in the genus, deep carmine, galea and petals purple 

 spotted ; lateral sepals spreading broadly oblong, very obtuse, 

 nuicronulate below the apex, 0"9-l cm. long ; odd sepal posticous 

 galeate, outline of the mouth obovate, rather acute, as long as the 

 lateral sepals, produced at the back into a spreading or somewhat 

 ascending, in no way deflexed, nearly straight or slightly incurved, 

 spur 1'4:-1'9 cm. long; petals erect, half hidden beneath the galea, 

 broadly oblong very obtuse, at the base abruptly bent upward at a 

 right angle, and about twice as long as the rostellum ; lip pro- 

 jecting forward spathulate-oblong, subacute, about 0"9 cm. long ; 

 anther resupinate or subreflexed, parallel with the ovary ; rostellum 

 erect oblong, crowned with the somewhat distant glands of the 

 pollinia ; ovary slender cylindrical, together with the pedicel, about 

 2 cm. long. 



Described from a few dried specimens and one living, from 

 which the drawing was made. 



A very distinct species, and somewhat rare, since up to the 

 present it has only been recorded as found by three collectors. 



