Japan Flora: Stout, glabrous, terrestrial herb about 50 cm. high; scapes terete, the scales few, thinly membranous, appressed, ovate, about 3 cm. long, acute, weakly nerved, short-sheathing; ra-cemes to 30 cm. long, erect, loosely many-flowered, the bracts greenish, flat, broadly linear, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 mm. wide, 3- or 5-nerved, acuminate; flowers slightly expanded; sepals obovate-oblong, about 2 cm. long, 8 mm. wide, abruptly acuminate, 5- to 7-ncrvcd; petals obovate, obtuse, 3/4 as long as the sepals; lip suberect, slightly shorter than the sepals, obovate, 3-lobed, papillose on the nerves inside, with 2 low ridges on the center, the lateral lobes rounded, 4-5 mm. long and as wide, the terminal lobe ascending, ovate-rounded, 7 mm. long and as wide, obtuse, entire, the spur compresscd- conical, obtuse, about 4 mm. long and as wide; column planoconvex, about 6 mm. long, 4 mm. wide. July.

Kyushu (Tanegashima and Ohsumi Prov.); very rare. Ryukyus and Formosa.