plant 1/3–1 ft. high; stem stout; leaves cauline, suberect, 6–8, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, involute, sheathing at the base, 2–3 in. long; scapes 1/3–1 ft. high; spikes 2–6 in. long, dense, many-flowered; bracts lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 1/2– 3/4 in. long; pedicels 3–4 lin. long; flowers small, pale yellow or greenish, with the dorsal sepal dull red; dorsal sepal ovate-oblong, obtuse or apiculate, cucullate and incurved at the apex, 2 1/2 lin. long; spur 1 1/2–2 lin. long, oblong, obtuse; lateral sepals oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse, spreading, 2 1/2 lin. long; petals 2 lin. long, obliquely falcate-oblong, obtuse, somewhat fleshy; lip subspathulate-linear, obtuse, somewhat fleshy, 2 lin. long; column short; anther reflexed; rostellum erect, tall, with subentire side lobes; stigma pulvinate, large. null
