"A very small slender erect herb. Roots rather short, flat, white, semi-transparent, hair-like, with small scattered globular hyaline bladders . . . Leaves few (2-3), basal, linear-spathulate, obtuse, 1-nerved, entire, 6-8 lines long . . . Scape 2-31/2 inches high, simple, filiform; flowers 1 . . . rarely 2 . . . bracts at top of scape 5, ovate-acuminate, sepals large, inflated, sub-orbicular . . . corolla purple, strongly veined, 3-4 lines diameter, upper lip small, cuneate, retuse, the lower one somewhat circular in outline (i.e., presenting the broad segment of a circle), entire.