plant 1–1 1/2 ft. high; stem rather slender; leaves radical, rather numerous, suberect, narrowly linear or grass-like, acuminate, 6–8 in. long; scapes 1–1 1/2 ft. high, with several narrow acuminate sheaths above; spikes 3–6 in. long, rather lax, many-flowered; bracts lanceolate or ovate-anceolate, very acuminate, 4–8 lin. long; pedicels about 1/2 in. long; flowers medium-sized, light yellow with red-purple petals and lip; dorsal sepal galeate, broadly ovate, acute, 5–6 lin. long, saccate behind; lateral sepals obliquely ovate-lanceolate, acute or shortly acuminate, 5–6 lin. long; petals falcate-oblong, the upper half narrowed, recurved, subobtuse and ciliate, about 3 lin. long; lip subreniform, somewhat recurved, obscurely 3-lobed and ciliate, about 3 lin. long; column short; anther suberect; rostellum short, produced into broad ciliate wings, adnate to the sides of the column; stigma pulvinate; capsule oblong, about 8 lin. long. null
