a stout erect herb, 1–2 ft. high, densely leafy, and pubescent all over; leaves sessile, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 3/4–1 1/4 in. long, decreasing into short sheaths below and into the bracts above; racemes 3–8 in. long, dense, many-flowered; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 1/2–1 in. long; flowers medium-sized, white and flesh-coloured; dorsal sepal elliptic-oblong, obtuse, concave, 1/4 in. long; lateral sepals obliquely semi-ovate, obtuse, falcately ascending, rather longer than the dorsal; petals obliquely semiovate-oblong, subobtuse, rather shorter than the dorsal sepal, incurved over the column at the apex; lip suberect from the curved base, 1/3 in. long; cuneately dilated and 3-lobed at the apex, with a broadly triangular front lobe and rounded side lobes, base gibbous and subsaccate with a pair of rounded auricles; disc obtusely carinate, with a pair of rounded crests near the base; column about 1/6 in. long. null
