ensiform, striated, rather acute, tapering below imto a narrow 
channelled portion, on which the blade is articulated, and this 
again becomes exceedingly dilated, striated, and sheathing around 
the pseudobulb. Scape two to three feet long, radical, stout, 
erect or declined from the weight of flowers, clothed below with 
lax, sheathing, brown, membranaceous scales. owers four inches 
in their spread, large, fragrant, distantly placed. Bracts very 
small. Sepals and petals nearly equal, two, oblong-lanceolate ; 
the petals and two lateral sepals spreading almost horizontally, 
the upper or intermediate sepal bending down so as to forma 
kind of hood over the column; their colour is yellowish-green, 
externally faintly, internally strongly, streaked with blood-coloured 
lines and dots. Jip as long as the petals, recurved, bright 
yellow, spotted and streaked with blood-colour; side lobes in- 
curved; middle lobe ovate, waved, ciliated; on the disc are two 
ciliated lamellae, which unite at their apices. Co/wmn semi-terete, 
streaked. Anther-case hemispherical. Pollen-masses two, sub- 
triangular, with a hatchet-shaped caudicle. 
Fig. 1. Pollen-masses :—magnified. 
