Japan Flora: Stems 1-4 cm. long, densely leafy; leaves evergreen, oblanceolate, 3-6 cm. long, 6니 5 mm. wide, subacute, somewhat falcate, ob-scurely 7- to 9-nerved, the midrib raised beneath; racemes 1-3 cm. long, 4- to 10-flowered, the bracts deltoid, 1-2 mm. long; flowers pale yellow; sepals and petals about 4 mm. long, spathulate-oblong, obtuse, rose-purple spotted on the inside; lip relatively large spurred, the spur about 3 mm. across at the mouth, about 4 mm. in depth, the lateral lobe on the margin of the mouth, the limb depressed deltoid, obtuse; column short; capsules sessile, narrowly oblong-cyl indr ic, about 2 cm. long. July-Aug.

Shikoku, Kyushu; rare. Ryukyus.