An erect slender dwarf g^labrous herb, 10-20 cm. high ; leaves 

 radical, several erect or suberect rosulate, narrow-linear acute, 

 1 •5-4 cm. long, membranous dilated and sheathing at base ; stem 

 usually straight, more rarely subflexuous, clothed with several 

 leaf-like sheaths dilated at base and clasping the stem ; raceme 

 sometimes corymbose laxly 3-8flo\vered ; bracts erect lanceolate 

 acuminate, about as long as the ovary, or a little longer ; lateral 

 sepals spreading oblong, mucronulate below the apex, 1*G cm. 

 long ; odd sepal erect concave orbicular from an unguiculate base, 

 as long as the lateral ; petals erect linear-falcate obtuse, 1-1 '1 cm. 

 long ; lip deflexed linear-setaceous, OH-1 cm. long ; rostellum 

 erect Sfid, gland-bearing arms divaricate, intermediate triangular 

 erect ; anther ascending, furnished with a petaloid wing-like 

 appendage, crisped on the margin ; ovary cylindrical, with the 

 pedicel 15 cm. long. 



Described from several dried and living specimens. 



