plant 1–2 ft. high; stems very stout; leaves 4–5, suberect, subcauline, narrowly oblong to elliptic-oblong, acute or subacute, 4–8 in. long, 1 1/4–2 1/4 in. broad, somewhat fleshy, passing upwards into the sheaths; scapes 1–2 ft. high, with several spathaceous sheaths; spikes 3–8 in. long, very dense, many-flowered; bracts lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 1/2–1 in. long, reflexed after flowering; pedicels about 1/2 in. long; flowers medium-sized, pink; odd sepal linear, obtuse, 3 1/2–4 lin. long; lateral sepals linear oblong, obtuse, twice as broad as the odd sepal and spreading; petals linear, obtuse, 3 1/2–4 lin. long; lip cucullate, broadly elliptic-ovate, 3 lin. long, with a broadly oblong obtuse reflexed apex; spurs slender, somewhat curved, about 1/2 in. long; column curved, 2 1/2 lin. long; stigma broadly deltoid-ovate, obtuse, 3/4 lin. long, broader than long; rostellum 3-lobed, with an oblong subacute front lobe, longer than the stigma. null
