Japan Flora: Glabrous perennial from a short, fusiform or narrowly ovoid pseudobulb; leaves ovate-elliptic, obtuse to acute, 2-5-5 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, slightly plicate, deep green above, purple beneath, the petiole 1.5-4 cm. long; scape 6-15 cm. long, erect, slender, with 2 membranous, sheathing scales near the base; flowers solitary, terminal, the bract broadly linear, 1.2-25 cm. long, acuminate; sepals and petals spreading, brownish rose, linear-lanceolate, 2-3 cm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, acuminate; lip pendulous, broadly ovate, 2.5-3 cm. long, white with pale brown spots inside, the pouch antrorse, bifid, softly long-pubescent within, the limb contracted, rounded at apex, with undulate margins; column flattened, ovate-elliptie, 1.3-15 cm. long, about 1 cm. wide; capsules clavate, cylindric, about 2.5 cm. long, long-pedicelled, ascending. May-June. Coniferous woods in mountains;

Honshu (north and centr. distr.); very rare. The Japanese phase nearly corresponds with the N. American

var. occidentals Holz, which has the limb of the lip shorter than the apical append-ages of the pouch.

Russia Flora: Plants up to 25 cm tall. Corm oblong, with membranous sheaths and cord-like root fibers. Stem erect, thin, with 2 membranous sheaths. Leaf 1, up to 4 cm long and 3 cm wide, ovate, acute, with petiole up to 7 cm long arising from upper part of corm. Flower 1, with linear-lanceolate bract. Perianth segments almost equal, up to 2.5 cm long and 3 mm wide, linear-lanceolate, acute, directed upward and radiately divergent, dark pink, with 3 veins. Lip up to 2.2 cm long, in form of slipper narrowed toward apex, whitish and yellowish, with reddish-brown stripes and spots, with pink petal-like limb in front and 3 tufts of yellow hairs at base. Capsule up to 2.7 cm long, straight, oblong.

Okhotsk, Aldan, Upper Zeya, Bureya, Amgun, Ussuri, South Sakhalin. - Dark coniferous wet and moist forests, rarely in wet larch forests. Ornamental. V-VIII. - General distribution: European part, West and East Siberia; Scandinavia, Mongolia, Japan-China, North America. - Described from Sweden.