12 CXLVIII. ORCHIDE®. (J. D. Hooker.) [Cymbidium. 
Soc, ii, 28; scape suberect 2-3-fld. sheathed to the top, flowers 4-5 in. 
diam. white, hypochile of lip with a very thick 3-5-grooved pubescent 
golden ridge. Bot. Mag. t. 5126; Pact. Mag. Bot. xv. t. 140; Warner 
Sel. Orchid. t. 41 ; Jennings Orchid. t. 16 ; Gartenfl. 1880, t. 155 ; Orchidoph. 
1882, 297; Wien. Ill. Gartenz. 1887, t. 7, 8; Gard. Chron. 1882, 1. 496, 
t. 78; 1884, ii. 77, £. 17. C. syringodorum, Griff. Notul. iii. 938. . 
EASTERN HIMALAYA; Nepal (Ic. in Herb. Kew). Sikkim, alt. 1000 ft., Clarke. 
KnuasrA Mrs., alt. 5000 ft., Griffith, &c. . 
Leaves 12-24 by 3-4 in., acute or acutely 2-fid. Scape 8-12 in. ; sheaths equitant, 
erect, lanceolate, finely acuminate; bracts acuminate; pedicel with ovary 13-2 in.; 
flowers very odorous; sepals very variable in breadth; petals subfalcate ; side lobes 
of lip narrow, obtuse, midlobe small, short, undulately crenate, dark yellow. 
Var. Parishii; leaves broader, lip blotched with dark purple or crimson. C. 
Parishii, Reichb. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 144; Xen. Orchid. iii. 55, t. 224 (very 
bad); in Gard. Chron. 1874, i. 338, 566 ; 1878, ii. 74; Warner Orchid, Alb. t. 26.— 
Tenasserim, on Nat-toung, alt. 5000 ft., Parish.—Reichenbach distinguishes this by 
thecallus of the lip having no velvety line, by the spots on the lip, and by acute 
setiferous angles of the pollinia. The sepals and petals are very much narrower than 
in Warner's figure. 
Var. Williamsiana, Reichb. f. in. Gard, Chron. 1881, i. 530, has the midlobe and 
sides of the lip light purple and column light rose-cold. 
Var, Dayana ; leaves 4ft. by 1 in, corky beneath, flowers yellow white with purple 
streaks, C. Dayanum, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1869, 710.—Assam (Hort. Day). 
—I have not seen this. 
ll. C. grandiflorum, Griff. Notul. iii. 342; Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 321; 
leaves 8-24 by 3-1 in., scape very robust decurved, sheaths lax, raceme 
6-12-fld., flowers 3-4 in. diam., sepals and petals oblong-lanceolate acute 
green, lip yellowish pubescens and. ciliate, midlobe large suborbicular 
waved and crenate blotched or speckled with red. C. Hookerianum, 
Heichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1866, 7; Batem. in Bot. Mag. t. 5574. C. 
giganteum, in part, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 29.—Cymbidium sp., 
Griff. Itin. Notes 145, No. 698. 
EASTERN HIMALAYA; East Nepal, Sikkim and Bhotan, alt. 5-7500 ft. 
Griffith, &e. 
Leaf-sheaths 2-8 in., deeply ribbed and grooved. Scape 12-18 in.; lower sheaths 
short, obtuse, upper 4 in., acute; racemes 10-18 in., drooping ; bracts very small; 
flowers fleshy, sweet-scented ; dorsal sepal incurved, lateral recurved; lip with 2 
hairy ridges on the disk between the side lobes. 
12. C. giganteum, Wall. Cat. 7355; leaves 1-2 ft. by 3-1} in. 
elongate lanceolate acuminate, scape very robust 6-12-fld., decurved or 
suberect, flowers 2-2} in. diam., sepals and petals oblong-lanceolate acute 
green streaked with red, lip yellow blotched with purple pubescent 
and ciliate all over, midlobe large orbicular waved. Fint. Gen. & Sp. 
Orchid, 163; Sert. Orchid. t. 4; Bot. Mag. t. 4844; Paat. Mag. Bot. 241, 
and FI. Gard. ii. 14, f. 143 (flower); Warner Orchid. Alb. vi. t, 284; Griff. 
Notul, ii. 941; Walp. Ann. vi. 626. Iridiorchis gigantea, Blume Orchid. 
Archip. Ind. 91, t.26. Limodorum longifolium, Z Hamilt. ( fid. Lindl.). 
TROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon, ascending to 4000 ft. eastwards to Bhotan 
and the KuasrA Mrs., alt. to 4-5000 ft. 
Habit of C. grandiflorum and leaves nearly as broad, but flowers smaller and 
differently coloured.— Blume founds the genus Iridiorchis on the protuberant base of 
the column forming a small sac, a character not shown in his analysis, and which I do 
not find in drawings on dried specimens. "There are drawings of several varieties of 
