A slender terrestrial herb; rhizoids filiform, very much branched. Leaves obovate-spathulate, attenuated into the long slender erect (though weak) petiole, usually decayed at the time of flowering; green blade over 1 lin. long, 1/2– 3/4 lin. broad; petiole about 1/2– 2/3 in. long. Pitchers unknown. Scape stoutly filiform, 8–16 in. long, erect, straight or flexuous, simple or very sparingly branched, with distant lanceolate basifixed small scales, up to 6-flowered. Flowers distant by less than their own length; bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, not quite a line long, subequal, pedicels shorter than the bracts. Sepals equal, orbicular, concave, about 1 lin. in diam., thin, yellow. Corolla 6–7 1/2 lin. long (from the tip of the upper lip to the end of the spur), intensely purple with a yellow palate; upper lip broadly ovate to subquadrate, slightly emarginate, 2 lin. long; lower lip very broad, semiorbicular, slightly wavy, 3 1/2–4 1/2 lin. long, palate with 2 low smooth ridges; spur slender, acute, usually more or less descending, about 4 lin. long. Anthers 1/2 lin. long. Stigma subsessile; upper lip ovate-lanceolate, shorter than the very broad depressed-orbicular lower lip. Capsule and seeds unknown.
