and the remarkable size of the flowers, it richly merits the title 
of the “ Queen of Orchideous plants.” | 
Duscr. Stems, or pseudobulbs, clustered, erect, five to eight 
and ten feet high, tereti-compressed, striated below, and a few, 
large, appressed scales there take the. place of /eaves. ‘These 
latter occupy the rest of the stem, and are distichous, one 
and a half to two feet long, from a broad, sheathing, equitant 
base, lorate, acute, coriaceo-membranaceous, striated. Scape 
nearly the size of one’s finger, and: from four to six feet long, 
radical, erect, many-flowered, terete, quite glabrous. Flowers 
distant, expanding from the base upwards on the panicle, each 
with a large, broad, ovato-lanceolate, concave, greenish dract, 
full an inch long. Ovary pedicelliform, as long as the flower 
is broad, thick, fleshy, terete, four to six inches, almost white : 
flower-bud two and a half inches long, independent of the ovary, 
clavate. Expanded flower nearly six inches across. Sepa/s and 
petals much spreading and slightly reflexed, undulated, broad- 
oblong or subobovate, yellow, richly spotted and blotched with 
deep: red-purple. Zip small for the size of the flower, three- 
lobed, an inch and a half long; the lobes obtuse, the side lobes 
convolute over the column; the disc sulcated, with three plates 
more elevated in the centre, marked with red streaks, and where 
the red streaks are, the lines are ciliated: middle lobe entire. 
Column curved a little downwards, semiterete, partially spotted 
with red. 
Fig. 1. Front view of the lip. 2. Column. 3. Pollen-masses and caudicle : 
—magnified. 
