An erect glabrous dwarf herb, 7-25 cm. alta ; stem straight or 

 flexuous, clothed with subdistant leafy acute or acuminate sheaths; 

 leaves radical many, rosulate, erect-spreading linear setaceous 

 acuminate, membranous and sheathing at base. 0'7-l'7 cm. long ; 

 raceme subcorymbose, laxly 1*3, more rarely 4-6 flowered, pedicels 

 widely spreading ; bracts submembranous lanceolate-acuminate, 

 shorter than the ovary ; lateral sepals ascending, then spreading, 

 falcate-lanceolate acuminate, lobed in front at the base, l'5-2 cm. 

 long ; odd sepal erect, almost flat, from an unguiculate base 

 cordate-orbicular acuminate, about as long as the lateral ; petals 

 erect, obliquely falcate-lanceolate acute, 0"7-0'8 cm. long; lip 

 deflexed, usually recurved at the apex, linear setaceous 1-1 "4 cm. 

 long ; rostellum erect, semi-orbicular in outline, 3fid, the gland- 

 bearing arms divaricate, intermediate lobe strongly recurved ; 

 anther horizontal, then ascending, the connective elongate apicu- 

 late, furnished with a petaloid appendage free at the apex. 



Described from several living and dried specimens. 



