Plant 1 1/4–2 ft. high, ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, subobtuse, amplexicaul, recurved, very strongly nerved; lower ones 3 in. long, 1 1/2 in. broad, decreasing upwards into the bracts. Racemes more or less elongate. Bracts leaf-like; the lower 1 1/4 in. long. Pedicels 1/2–1 1/4 lin. long. Dorsal sepal lanceolate, acute, 6–7 lin. long; lateral with a broadly ovate, oblique base, 3 lin. long, and a narrowly falcate-acuminate apex, 5–6 lin. long. Petals ovate, acuminate, subfalcate, 6–7 lin. long. Lip 8 lin. long; hypochile narrowly oblong, concave, 4 lin. long; epichile broadly ovate, acute, 4 1/2 lin. long; base of the lip with a pair of free, linear-oblong, subobtuse, membranous, nerved, staminodes, 3 1/2 lin. long. Column 2 1/2 lin. long.
