6-8 cm. long, gradually passing off upwards into the erect sheaths 

 spike cylindical, rather laxly many-flowered, 6-20 cm. long, flowers 

 ascending ; bracts erect herbaceous ovate acuminate, longer than 

 the ovary ; lateral sepals erect or spreading-recurved, oblong 

 obtuse, 0'6-0'7 cm. long ; odd sepal erect oblong-galeate obtuse, 

 as long as the lateral sepals, produced at base into a subfiliform 

 straight pendulous spur, 1*6-1'8 cm. long; petals erect ovate- 

 oblong, as long as the sepals ; lip spreading-deflexed linguiform 

 obtuse ; rostellum erect semi-lunate, gland-bearing arms acute, 

 exceeding the stigma, the cleft between it and the stigma very 

 slight or hardly perceptible ; anther strongly resupinate ; stigma 

 excavate. 



Described from several dried specimens and a living one, under 

 my number 4551, from which the drawing was made. 



