Plant slender, 1–1 1/2 ft. high. Leaves few, cauline, rather distant, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 1/2–1 1/4 in. long. Racemes 2–4- (sometimes 1-) flowered. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, 4–5 lin. long. Pedicels 6–9 lin. long. Flowers deep orange. Sepals 4 lin. long; dorsal ovate-oblong, apiculate; lateral lanceolate-oblong, subacute. Petals simple, lanceolate, subacute, 4 lin. long, appressed to the dorsal sepal. Lip subspathulate-linear, obtuse, 2 1/2 lin. long, with a pair of minute, basal teeth; spur subclavate, subacute, 4 lin. long. Stigmatic processes oblong, obtuse, connate, 1 lin. long. Anther channels linear-oblong, 1 1/2 lin. long. Rostellum triangular, subobtuse, 1 lin. long.
