plant 1/2–1 1/2 ft. high; stem stout; leaves 2 or 3, subsessile, suberect or spreading, oblong or ovate-oblong, subobtuse, 1 1/2–4 in. long, 1–2 in. broad, submembranous; scapes 1/2–1 1/2 ft. high, with several spathaceous sheaths; spikes 1 1/4–6 in. long, lax, many-flowered; bracts lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, 1/3– 1/2 in. long; pedicels 1/4– 1/3 in. long; flowers small, white; odd sepal oblong-lanceolate, subacute, 1–1 1/4 in. long; lateral sepals broader and somewhat spreading, with an oblique acute apex; petals obovate-oblong, subobtuse, 1 1/4–1 1/2 lin. long; lip cucullate, broadly elliptic-ovate, 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. long, with a suberect triangular subacute apex; spurs slender, nearly straight, 1 3/4 lin. long; column somewhat curved, 1 1/4 lin. long; stigma oblong, truncate or obtuse, 3/4 lin. long; rostellum quadrate-oblong, obscurely trilobed at the apex, scarcely one-third as long as the stigma. null