flowering period, 8-20 cm. long, 1'2 cm. wide ; raceme sub- 

 corymbose laxly 6-llflowered, flowers among- the larger ones in 

 the genus ; bracts erect membranous oblong-linear acuminate, 

 usually a little longer than the ovary ; lateral sepals spreading, 

 oblong obtuse, 2 cm. long ; odd sepal oblong or subobovate 

 truncate, subcucuUate below, recurved above, produced at base 

 into a spreading-deflexed filiform spur, usually a little longer than 

 the pedicellate ovary, petals erect linear or oblong obtuse or 

 acute, rounded at base and lobed in front, about as long as the 

 lateral sepals ; lip ascending, decurved at the apex, linear-obtuse 

 as long as the petals ; rostellum subquadrate, ascending ; anther 

 pendulous ; ovary with the pedicel 2 "5-4 "5 cm, long. 



Described from several dried and living specimens. 



