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10 CXLVI. ORCHIDE®. (J. D. Hooker.) [Cymbidium. 
TENASSERIM ; on Moolee-it, alt. 6000 ft., Parish. BURMA; on the Siam frontier, 
rkeley. . 
TEL wii 1-1} in., turgidly ovoid, top contracted. Leaves 3-5 in., recurved, 
petiole rarely 1 in. Scape suberect, with the raceme 6-8 in., 3-5-fld. ; sheaths few ; 
bracts small, ovate-lanceolate ; pedicel with ovary 1-14 in. ; flowers 2-24} in. diam. ; 
sepals linear, subacute, dull yellow-green ; petals subsimilar ; lip narrowed at the 
base, white spotted with red, side lobes rounded erect, midlobe oblong, tip rounded 
apiculate; anther smooth; pollinia 3 angular, gland broadly triangularly obtuse 
above, sides acute. 
5. C. Devonianum, Part. Mag. Bot. x. 97, cum ic.; leaves stoutly 
petioled thickly coriaceous, petiole articulate, scape with raceme as long 
as the leaves drooping very many-fid., bracts very small, pedicels very 
short, disk of lip with two short ridges with swollen tips between the 
side lobes. Warner Orchid. Alb. t. 170 ; Reichb. f. in. Gard. Chron. 1881, 
i. 395. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, Mann. KgastA Hints, Gibson; on Kollong rock, alt, 5000 ft., 
J. D. H. & T. T. . 
Stem very stout at the base, obscurely pseudobulbous. Leaves several, 6-12 in., 
narrowed into a petiole 3-5 in. Scape very stout, 8-10 in. ; basal sheaths 1j in., 
imbricating ; bracts + in. ; pedicel with ovary }-3 in.; flowers 14 in. diam.; sepals 
oblong-lanceolate and petals green speckled with red, or pale reddish yellow streaked 
with red; lip short, side lobes rounded narrowing into a small triangular ovate 
obtuse midlobe, purple with a darker blotch on each side lobe; anther and pollen as 
in C, eburneum, var, Parishii. Capsule 13 in., turgidly ellipsoid.—T he flowers appear 
to vary extremely in colour. Reichenbach describes the sepals and petals as light 
brown with dull mauve streaks and blotches. Ina specimen from Assam the tip of 
the lip is white with purple spots. 
*** Leaves loriform, very long, tip broadly unequally 2-lobed. 
6. C. aloifolium, Swartz in Nov. Act. Upsal. vi. 73; in Schrad. 
Journ, Bot. 1779, ii. 218; racemes elongate pendulous or decurved many-fld., 
flowers 14-2 in. broad, sepals and petals linear-oblong subacute, epichile 
broadly oblong or suborbicular equalling or shorter than the hypochile, 
disk with 2 curved thick lamelle. Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 458; Lindl. Gen. 
A Sp. Orchid. 165; Wall. Cat. 7352 C; Walp. Ann. vi. 624 (exel. Te. 
Wight) C. pendulum, Swartz, & Lindl. Je: Walp. l. e. (excl. cit. Bot. 
Reg.) ; Roxb. Cor. Pl. i. 35,5. 44; Fl. Ind. iii. 458. C. crassifolium, Wall. 
Cat. 7397. C. Mann, Reichb. f. in Flora 1872, 274. Epidendrum aloi- 
folium, Linn. Sp. Pl. 953.  /Erides Borassi, Smith in Rees Cyclop. 
Suppl.— Rheede Hort. Mal. xii. t. 8. 
TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from East Nepal eastwards. Assam and southwards to 
TENASSERIM and the ANDAMAN IsLanps. (? Malabar, Zheede.)—DisTRIB. China ? 
Stem short, stout. Leaves 1-3 ft. by 2-2 in. Raceme 12-18 in.; flowers 
variable in colour and size, usually dull purplish brown with pale borders,—I am 
much puzzled with this and the following species, which appear to differ, in so far 
as all my copious materials show, only in the comparative length of the epichile and 
hypochile of their lips, and in their geographical ranges, aloifolium being strictly 
northern and eastern, and bicolor as strictly western. These characters would be 
absolute were it not that Rheede's figure of the Malabar plant has the lip of 
aloifolium. According to drawings in Herb. Kew and Calcutta, C. aloifolium is 
very variable in other respects, and three varieties are distinguishable. 1. Racemes 
shorter suberect fewer-fld., sepals and petals obtuse dull purple with yellowish pale 
margins. This exactly resembles the Chinese? C, aloifolium, Lodd. Bot. Cat. t. 967 ; 
Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. iii. 69, t. 383.—2. Flowers larger, sepals and petal sub- 
