Brachycorythis pilosa Summerh.

Terrestrial herb 25–70 cm. high.. Roots tuberous, fleshy, 1 cm. in diameter, densely woolly.. Leaves numerous, lanceolate, acuminate, up to 5 cm. long and 1.5 cm. broad, decreasing in size up the stem, ± densely velvety hairy.. Inflorescence densely many-flowered, 10–20 cm. long, 2–3 cm. in diameter; bracts leafy, lanceolate, the lower ones overtopping the flowers, densely velvety.. Flowers cream-coloured or yellowish-white, the lip rose-coloured; pedicel with ovary ± 1 cm. long or more, densely velvety.. Dorsal sepal elliptical, rounded at apex, nearly 6 mm. long; laterals obliquely ovate or oblong-ovate, obtuse or rounded, 6–6.5 mm. long; all sepals sparsely pubescent outside.. Petals obliquely lanceolate-or ovate-oblong, 4.5–6 mm. long, glabrous.. Lip-hypochile shortly spur-like andr ounded, nearly 3 mm. long; epichile turned downwards, obovate or orbicular, ± 5 mm. long and nearly as broad, 3-lobed in the upper part, the lobes triangular and about equal in length.. Column rather stout, 3–4 mm. long.