Erect terrestrial herbs, with small, subterete or tetragonous, tapering pseudobulbs 2-3 cm. long and 4-6 mm. wide. Leaves 1 or 2, linear-lanceolate, plicate, acute or acuminate, the bases contracted into a long petiole, 45-70 cm. long and 10-15 mm. wide. Inflorescences erect, 40-60 cm. tall, produced from the base of the current flush of new growth, the peduncle provided with several distant, papery, tubular, acute or acuminate bracts. Flowers of moderate size, few to many, reminiscent of those of a small Cyrtopodium or Warrea. Sepals rather fleshy, free, subequal, green, the dorsal sepal incurved, rather concave, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, 10-12 mm. long and 4-5 mm. wide, laterals somewhat spreading, rather obliquely elliptic-lanceolate, acute, 10-12 mm. long and 5-6 mm. wide. Petals subequal to the dorsal sepal, submembranaceous, pale green, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, 9-10 mm. long and 3.5-4 mm. wide. Lip rather fleshy, 3-lobed, white transversely barred lavender or purple, 6-8 mm. long and 8-10 mm. wide when spread out, the base abruptly contracted into a short claw which apparently is articulated with the foot of the column, lateral lobes obliquely rhombic-triangular, obtuse, erect, the mid-lobe broadly spreading, somewhat concave, more or less transversely oblong-reniform, the apex sometimes shallowly emarginate; disk with a low, fleshy, tuberculate callus. Column short, stout, semi-terete, rather arcuate, 3-4 mm. long, the margins of the apex slightly projecting and forming a short hood over the clinandrium.
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