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.