or erect-spreading linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, 5-20 cm. 

 long-, cauline similar, gradually passing off into the somewhat 

 distant sheaths ; raceme laxly 4-9flowered, flowers among the larger 

 ones in the genus, ascending ; bracts broadly ovate acuminate, 

 coloured, longer than the ovary ; lateral sepals spreading 

 ovate-elliptical, very obtuse, apiculate below the apex, 2-2-5 cm. 

 long ; odd sepal erect concave, broadly ovate or suborbicular, 

 dorsally saccate below the middle ; petals erect, obliquely oblong, 

 incurved at the apex and arching over the anther, the posterior 

 margin erosulate, 1-1 "3 cm. long; lip spreading-deflexed linear 

 acute, 1 cm. long ; rostellum erect Slobed, the gland-bearing 

 divaricate, furnished behind with a petaloid appendage, the inter- 

 mediate obtuse concave ; anther ascending. 



Described from several dried and living specimens 



