compressed sfem, a foot or more long, sheathed with long, mem- 
branaceous, striated scales, and terminated by a single, oblong, 
coriaceous /ea/, eight or ten inches long, and from two to three 
broad. Panicle from the apex of the pseudobulb and base of 
the leaf, the peduncle arising from a compressed membranous 
sheath. V/owers six or seven on the same panicle, extremely 
large and handsome. Ovary very long, clavate, pedicelliform. 
Sepals spreading, narrow, lanceolate, acuminate, even, pale rose- 
colour. Petals equally spreading, of the same colour, much 
broader than the sepals, waved. The “ip is very large; lower 
part (or two lateral lobes) convolute into a tube; the central 
lobe is large and spreading, crisped at the mouth: the ground- 
colour of the tube is white; in the disc or centre is an orange- 
coloured streak, and from a deep rose-coloured line bordering 
that a number of branching lines of the same colour diverge to- 
wards the margin. 
