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CYMBIDIUM pendulum. 
Thick-leaved Cymbidium. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. Ord. ORCHIDACEA. 
CYMBIDIUM. Botaniecl Register, vol. 7. fol. 529. 
C. pendulum ; foliis ensiformibus distichis coriaceis obliguê obtusis, racemis 
pendulis multifloris, bracteis minutis, petalis sepalisgue lineari-oblongis 
obtusis, labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus acutis intermedio oblongo apicu- 
lato: lamellis continuis approximatis apice confluentibus. 
Epidendrum pendulum. Roxb. corom. plants. 1. 35. t. 44. 
C. pendulum. Swartz. nov. act. ups. 6.73. Willd. Sp. Pl. 4. 101. no. 30. 
Roxb. fl. ind. 3. 458. Lindl. gen. et sp. orch. p. 165. 
C. crassifolium. Wall. cat. no. 7357. 
Originally observed by Dr. Roxburgh on trees in the 
province of Sylhet, and in the forests which cover the Circar 
mountains as well as those of Bengal; afterwards met with 
at Noakote in Nepal by Dr. Wallich. i 
The latter Botanist considered his plant different from 
that of Roxburgh, and it has smaller flowers ; but I do not 
perceive in what the distinction otherwise consists. The spe- 
cimen now figured was sent by Dr. Wallich to the Hon. and 
Rev. W. Herbert, who forwarded a fine specimen, nearly 
three feet long, with a dozen flowers upon it, to the Horti- 
cultural Society in August, 1838. 
It is very distinct from all others. Its leaves are from 
two to three feet long, stiff, leathery, obliquely obtuse, and 
strongly furrowed; at the base they form a distichous tuft, 
like that produced by the equitant leaves of an Iris. The 
flowers exceed in size those of any of the species nearly allied 
to this. They are however of a dirty yellowish brown colour, 
which diminishes their beauty, notwithstanding the clear red 
and white of the labellum. As they hang downwards, the 
plant should be suspended from the roof of the stove like 
May, 1840. K 
