Peduncle arising from a compressed membranous sheath. Flowers from three to twehe 

 or more on the same panicle, extremely large and handsome. Ovary very long, clava'te, 

 pedicelliform. Sepals spreading, narrow, lanceolate, acuminate, even, pale rose-colour 

 in some varieties, deep rose in others. . Petals equally spreading, of the same colour, much 

 broader than the sepals, waved. The lip 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 branch- 

 ing lines of the same colour diverge towards the margin. 



