PHATIUS: 409 
tapering at each end; they are dark green, freely marked 
with large, roundish, yellow spots. The flower-stems are 
14ft. to 2ft. high, and towards the top bear ten to fifteen 
flowers, rather closely arranged. The flowers are 2in. to 
3in. across, with the oblong sepals and petals of a clear, 
Fig, 99. Phaius grandifolius 
(much reduced). 
soft yellow, and the cylindrical lip also yellow, but streaked 
with reddish brown on the edges of the middle lobe. The 
species is a native of Northern India and Japan, and 
succeeds well in an intermediate house. It was introduced 
in 1823. Syns. Bletia flava, B. Woodfordit. 
Botanical Magazine, tt. 2719 and 3960. 
