Descr.* Leaves one and a half to two feet long, acute, strap-shaped, tough and 

 leathery, dilated at the base, where they are exceedingly striated or streaked with two 

 shades of green, much more so than in the ordinary form of C. giganteum. Scape about 

 the length of the leaves, erect in its lower portion (where it is covered with loose im- 



bricated scales), but nodding from the point where the flowers are placed. Flowers 



from six to twelve, very large (four to five inches across), of a uniform green, the lip 

 only excepted. Ovaries an inch and a half long. Sepals and petals stellate, oblong, 

 obtusely-acute, the petals slightly narrower than the sepals. lAp three-lobed, the lateral 

 • lobes long, entire, flat, somewhat falcate and very sharp-pointed in front, bordered with 

 fine hairs, the middle lobe crisped and fringed at the margin ; on the disk are two 

 upright ciliated lamellae, parallel or slightly converging, more than half an inch in 

 length ; the whole of the lip is of yellowish-white, changed into deeper yellow at the 

 pflges, where it is velvety and decorated with rich reddish-purple spots. Column clavate, 

 T edged, smooth, green, with a few reddish dots. 



* 'riic following description is mainly drawn up from a flower fuinjshed by Messrs. Yeitcli, 

 and varies in some respects from that of Professor Rciclienbach. 



