A slender, twining annual. Rhizoids capillary, much-branched. Leaves decayed at the time of flowering, not known. Pitchers unknown. Scape filiform, twining, up to 1 ft. long; scales few, subulate, minute. Flowers 1–2, distant; bracts ovate, acute, 1 lin. long; bracteoles lanceolate to subulate, shorter than or as long as the bracts; pedicels filiform, 7–10 lin. long, after flowering stiff-erect. Sepals subequal upper broadly elliptic-ovate, obtuse or subacute, over 2 lin. long, lower elliptic, obtuse. Corolla deep violet, 9–10 lin. long (from the tip of the upper lip to the end of the spur); upper lip panduriform, over 5 lin. long, of which 3 1/2–3 3/4 lin. go to the ovate-orbicular part above the constriction; lower lip orbicular-cuneate, 4–5 lin. long; palate large, almost parallel to the upper lip, laterally compressed, almost triangular in side view and subacute at the upper angle, edge of mouth ciliolate, cilia gathered in a small tuft in front; spur slender, conic, acute, over 4 lin. long. Anthers over 1/2 lin. long; pollen globose, with 4–5 short slits and pores; filament almost 1 lin. long, obovate-oblong. Pistil cylindric; stigma subsessile; upper lip obscure; lower short, broad, truncate. Capsule and fruit unknown.
