Japan Flora: Plant leafless, saprophytic; rhizomes to 15 cm. long, slightly puberu- lent, scaly; scapes erect, 15-20 cm. long, the sheaths 7-20 mm. long, membranous; racemes 2- to 5-flowered, the bracts membranous, broadly lanceolate, 5-10 mm. long, long-acuminate； flowers white with a brownish purple hue; sepals oblanceolate, about 2 cm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, acuminate; petals narrowly oblong, slightly shorter than the sepals; lip about 15 mm. long, cuneate, obsoletely 3-lobed, the terminal lobe slightly recurved, minutely undulate on the margins; column 8-10 mm. long, densely papillose. July-Aug.

Honshu, Kyushu; rare.

Cymbidium sinense (Andr.) Willd. Leaves 15-32 mm. wide; sepals linear-oblanceolate, 25-35 mm. long, 5-6.5 mm. wide. Reported to occur in Kyushu (Yakushima).
Ryukyus, Formosa, and China.