flowering period, 10-28 cm. long' ; scape straight or subflexuous, 

 clothed with 3-4: herbaceous, distant, acuminate sheaths ; raceme 

 laxly 6-14flowered, flowers ascending ; bracts erect membranous, 

 lanceolate-acuminate, usually a little shorter than the ovary; lateral 

 sepals spreading oblong, very obtuse apiculate below the apex, 

 1"1-1G cm. long ; odd sepal erect subgaleate, mouth lanceolate, 

 remarkably acute, a little shorter than the lateral sepals, gradually 

 produced at the back into a spreading deflexed filiform spur shorter 

 than the ovary ; petals erect lanceolate-falcate acuminate, in front 

 at the base widened, 0*4 cm. long ; lip porrect oblong, widened 

 towards the apex, obtusely apiculate, as long as the lateral sepals ; 

 rostellum very short erect, slightly excised ; anther resupinate ; 

 ovary, with the pedicel, 1*7-2 "5 cm. long. 



Described from several dried and living specimens. 



