Cymbidium.] ^ ott, ORCHIDES. (J. D. Hooker.) 13 
this in Herb. Kew and Caleutta, varying much in the depth of colouring of the 
flowers. The veins of the lip are very strong, arched and purple on the broad hypo- 
chile, which has 2 central hairy ridges, villous and diverging, and again meeting 
at the base of the epichile. 
Var. ? Lowiana, Reichb., f. in Gard. Chron. 1887, i.684; leaves 2-3 ft. by 1-2 in., 
finely acuminate, side lobes of lip pale yellow green, midlobe dark purple with golden 
margins. C. Lowianum, Reichd. JF in Gard. Chron. 1879, 832, 405, f. 56; Floral 
Mag. N. S.t. 353; Berlin Gartenz. 1885, t. 73; Orchidoph. 1882, 321; 1885, 145.— 
Burma, Bozall (Hort. Low).— Perhaps a distinct species; the leaves are more like 
those of C. longifolium. The racemes attain 5 ft. iu length, the very numerous 
flowers vary in colour, and the lip in breadth. 
13. C. longifolium, Don Prodr. 36; leaves 2-3 ft. by 1-3 in. nar- 
rowly linear finely acuminate, scape suberect or decurved many-fld., flowers 
2-23 in. diam., sepals and petals linear-oblong or -lanceolate acute greenish 
streaked with red or purple, lip papillose within not ciliate, midlobe broadly 
ovate or orbicular white or yellowish spotted with red. Lindl. Gen. & Sp. 
Orchid. 163; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 29; Reich. f. in Gard. Chron. 1874, 
14. ©. erythroum, Lindl. l. c. 30. Limodorum angustifolium, Herb. 
Ham. (ex Lindl. Gen. & Sp.). 
SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 5-6000 ft., from Kumaon, Blinkworth, eastwards. 
Kuasta Mrs., common. i 
Resembles C. giganteum, but the leaves are very narrow, flowers smaller, and their 
colouring different. The lip is similar in shape, in the strong purple nerves, and 
pubescent ridges. Lindley’s C. erythræum is founded on a drawing of mine of the 
flowers and fruit of a plant gathered in Sikkim, but of which J preserved no 
specimens ; it has a small golden midlobe of the very narrow lip, but it otherwise does 
not seem to differ from longifolium, to which the specimens of erythreum in Lindley's 
erbarium certainly belong. 
tt Bracts large, lanceolate or cymbiform. 
14. C. cyperifolium, Wall. Cat. 7353; leaves 2-3 ft. by ł-} in., 
Scape erect few-fld., bracts very slender equalling or exceeding the ovary, 
sepals and petals linear-lanceolate acute pale green and yellow streaked 
with red, lip narrow glabrous, greenish or white spotted with red. Lindl. 
Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 163; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 98. C. hamatodes, Lindl. 
Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 162. O. virididorum, Grif. Itin. Notes 126, No, 454. 
Cyperorchis ? Wallichii, Blume Orchid. Archipel. Ind. 92. Limodorum 
longifolium, Roxb. FU. Ind. iii. 468. 
SUBTROPICAL HIMAIAY A; from Garwhal, alt, 5000 ft., Edgeworth, eastwards. 
he Kuasta, Naga and MUNNIPORE Hrs, alt. 3500-6500 ft. 19; 
, Caves rigid, often petioled. Scape shorter than the leaves, slender ; sheaths 4-2 in., 
istant ; flowers 4-7, distant, sweet-scented ; lip pubescent within; pollinia 4, broadly 
oblong, plano-convex, each pair of a large and small placed face to face. The 
Roxburghian figure of L. longijlorum, from the Khasia Hills, agrees in every respect 
SH that the flowers are rose-cold.; it is described in the Flora Indica as having a 
üsiform bulb and calearate lip; in the drawing the bulb is the caudex denuded of 
eaves, and there is no trace of a spur; the bracts, which in the drawing are 
~2 in. long, are undescribed. The species approaches Cyperorchis, differing in 
abit, Lindley gives Ceylon, Macrae, as a habitat for his C. hematodes (which is 
certainly cyperifolium), probably through the same error as affects other plants 
attributed by him to that country and collector. 
15. €. ensifolium, Swartz in Nov. Act. Upsal. vi. 77 ; leaves 2-3 ft., 
by $13 in. sessile or petioled ensiformly lanceolate, bracts shorter than the 
