14 CXLVIII. oRcHIDEX. (J.D. Hooker) ` [Cymbidium. 
ovary, sepals and petals lanceolate acute green streaked with red, lip 
glabrous white or yellowish spotted with brown or red. Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 
112; Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 162; Bot. Reg. t. 1976 (var. estriata) ; 
Bot. Mag. t. 1751. C. sinense, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 30 (P Willd.). 
Epidendrum ensifolium, Linn. Sp. Pl. 90; Smith Spicileg. Bot. 22, t. 24; 
P Bot. Repos. t. 344. Limodorum ensatum, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 29; Kampf. Ic. 
t. 3. 
Ser HIMALAYA; in the Terai. Kuasta Hiris, alt. 2-4000 ft., J. D. H. 
& T. P., Ee, CEYLON; in the Central Province, Thwaites.—Distris. China, 
Japan. 
Phe Khasia plant agrees very well with Kompfer’s figure, which alone repre- 
sents the leaves as narrowed into a long petiole. In the Bot. Repos. the leaves are 
only a span long and quite sessile. The Bot. Mag. represents a very small plant with 
spotted lip. The Ceylon ensifolium has broader inflated lanceolate bracts. The 
Sikkim specimen has sessile leaves, many flowers, and a white lip with pale brown 
bars along the margin of the midlobe (much as in the Bot. Reg. fizure) and no spots. 
I doubt C. sinense differing from ensifolium. Lindley would combine them. 
DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
C. assamicum, Linden Cat. 1863 (name only), ex Ill. Hortic. xxviii. (1881) 95. 
C. carnosuy, Griff. Notul. iii. 339, is probably a Eulophia. 
C. cHLORANTHUM, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843, Misc. 68; in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
iii. 29; Bot. Mag. t. 4907, is C. variciferum, Reichb. f. in Bonpland. 1854, 91, an 
Australian species. 
C. IRIDIOIDES, Don Prodr. 36, from Nepal, Wallich, doubtfully referred by 
Lindley to C. giganteum, is probably a Celogyne. 
CyMBID. sp., Griff. Notul. iii, 943 ; Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 819, is Tainia latifolia. 
The reference is omitted at vol. v. p. 820. 
4l. CYPERORCHIS, Blume. 
Habit, foliage and inflorescence of Cymbidium, but racemes dense-fld., 
perianth segments narrow and connivent below the middle or higher, lip 
nearly straight, erect, epichile small and very much shorter than the 
elongate hypochile, and pollinia usually pyriform ou a short subquadrate 
gland.—Species 3, all Indian. 
Except by the narrow lip, long hypochile, and small usually orbicular epichile (or 
midlobe), it is not easy to separate this genus from Cymbidium, for the pollinia vary 
much in form in both genera, and Cyp. Mastersii resembles very much Cymb. 
eburneum, 
1. C. elegans, Blume Rumph. iv. t. 47; Orchid. Archip. Ind. 93, 
t. 48 C; raceme elongate, flowers 1-1} in. long straw-cold. or white, lip 
sparsely hairy towards the base, central ridges terminating below in 2 long 
pubescent calli, capsule lin. Bot. Mag. t. 7007. Cymbidium elegans, Lindl. 
in Wall, Cat, 7354; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 163; Sert. Orchid, t. 14; in Journ. 
Linn. Soc, ii. 28; Reichb. f. in Gard, Chron, 1875,1. 429. C. densiflorum, 
arif. Notul. ii. 337 (the Myrung plant only). 
SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 4-7000 ft., from Nepal to Bhotan. Ener Mrs. 
and MUNNIPORE, alt. 4—6000 ft. 
Leaves 14-2 ft. by i-lin. Scape 6-18 in., curved, densely clothed with imbri- 
cating compressed lanceolate acuminate sheaths 2-5 in. long; raceme pendulous, 
4-8 in. long; rachis slender; flowers densely imbricate, inodorous; bracts small, 
membranous, acute; sepals and petals linear-oblong, acute, tips concave ; lip as long 
as the petals, very slightly recurved ; hypochile narrowly cuneate, side lobes spre: d- 
ing, broadly oblong, obtuse, nearly as long as the suborbicular or obcordate undulate 
midlobe; column very slender, base hairy in front. Capsule turgidly ellipsoid.— 
