472 MB. H. N. ETDLET ON THE 



p. 361. — Limodorum plantagineum, Thouars, Orel, lies Afr. 

 tt. 41, 42 ; Beyer, Hort. Maur. p. 313. 



Madagascar, Forbes ! Ankafana, Hildebrandt no. 39SG ! same 

 locality and Fiarantosoa, Deans Cowan ! in Herb. Brit. Mus. 

 Mauritius, fide Bojer. Bourbon. 



This conspicuous plant seems to be most nearly allied to C. 

 bicolor (Eulophia bicolor, Blume), from which it differs in the 

 broader white petals and narrower leaves and colouring of the 

 lip. The sepals are spreading, green ; the petals broader and 

 shorter, parallel with the column, white ; the lip green, except 

 the median lobe, which is white with rose-coloured crests. The 

 spur is pinkish green. Deans Cowan, in a note to the drawing 

 from which the above details are taken, says : — " This Orchid is 

 common in many places, in some it forms a bed in which several 

 thousand plants are to be found in a few square yards." It is 

 called " Tenondahy " by the natives. 



Ctmbidium. 

 The only species of the genus recorded from Madagascar is a 

 very doubtful plant figured by Thouars, Orchid. lies Afriq. tt. 39, 

 40, under the name of Limodorum flabellatum, which was after- 

 wards referred to the genus Cynibidium by Lindley in his ' Genera 

 and Species of Orchidaceous Plants,' p. 167, under the name of 

 C.JlabeUatum. His description is obviously taken from Thouars's 

 plate. I have seen no plant answering to the figure, and have 

 great doubts as to its belonging to the genus Cynibidium as now 

 understood. In habit it rather resembles a EulopMa. The genus 

 is distributed over the tropical and subtropical regions of the Old 

 "World, being most abundant in the Indo-Malayan region. Two 

 species, however, occur in Africa, both in the south. 



Grammanqis. 



The species on which this genus is based is G. Ellisii, Beichb. f. 

 (Grammatophyllum Ellisii, Lol.), a plant only known from Ma- 

 dagascar, to which Bentb. and Hook, f.,' Genera Plantarum,' p. 537, 

 would add Cynibidium Huttonii, Lindl., a species foimerly in cul- 

 tivation which has been stated to have come from Java. The 

 genus is allied to Ansellia and Cymbidium, from which latter it 

 differs in the petals being much smaller than the sepals. 



G. Ellisii, Beichb. f. Xenia Orchid, ii. 17.— Grammatophyllum 

 Elhsii, Lindley, Boi. May. t. 5179 ; Williams, Orchid Album, 



