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Description

Whole plant covered sparsely with long
spreading flaccid hairs. Roots of stout fleshy
fibres. Leaves 1 foot long & less, sessile or narrowed
into a petiole, from elliptic-lanceolate to [crossed out: n]
narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, pale
green, with few nearly longitudinal nerve [nerves]
Scape stout, erect, longer than the leaves, bearing
2 or 3 short appressed acute green sheaths, &
a lax raceme-like spike of horizontal flowers.
Bracts ovate-lanceolate, much shorter than
the slender strict ovaries, which are 1" long. Flowers
3/4" across the sepals; perianth widely spreading,
with the minute lip upwards. Dorsal sepals
inferior ovate-lanceolate, acute, pale [illegible] brown
with darker [crossed out: straights] streaks; lateral sepals
twice as large, broadly elliptic, long ciliated,
white with brown spots. Column slender projecting
forwards, bearing at its extremity the
2 petals which hanging down in front resemble
a lip. Petals dimidiate ovate, parallel & close
together, clawed, yellow with red-brown streaks.
Lip very small, fleshy, reflected, tongue-shaped,
acute, curved, concave. Stigma concave
with membranous walls. J.D.H.