Stout, erect, epiphytic herbs with cylindric, ascending stems apparently often branching and enveloped in 2-ranked foliage; the base of the cane with one or more stout, ovoid, monophyllous pseudobulbs, in our specimen 5.5 cm. tall and 3.5 cm. wide. Mature leaves absent in our specimen, but apparently large, numerous and ligular, the upper stem covered by the broad, coarse, complanate, 2-ranked, imbricating, persistent bases. Inflorescences short 1-flowered scapes about 2.5 cm. long, produced in dense fascicles from the leaf axils. Flowers small. Sepals sub-equal, free, apparently not spreading, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, about 6 mm. long and 2-2.5 mm. wide, the laterals somewhat oblique and concave at the base. Petals subequal to the dorsal sepal, elliptic-obovate, acute, about 5 mm. long and 2 mm. wide. Lip cana-liculate, with a deep median constriction, more or less subquadrate and 4-lobed when spread out, about 4 mm. long and 2.6 mm. wide, the narrowed base adnate to the base of the column, the lateral lobes rounded, erect in natural position, the mid-lobe suborbicular, conspicuously emarginate at the apex, the lateral concave, rounded lobules erect, the median constriction with a transverse, fleshy callus. Column very short, stout, about 1.75 mm. long.
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