Cyperorehis.| CXLVIH. ORCHIDEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 15 
In Griffith's Herb. this is named C. syringodorum, doubtless through a misplace- 
ment of labels (see C. eburneum, p. 12). ln Herb. Calcutt. there are drawings of 3 
forms apparently of this:—1. raceme laxer-flowered, flowers larger nearly white 
flushed with pale pink, lip not represented; 2, leaves 12-18 in., scape stout, 
sheaths distant, 2 in. long, and raceme inclined, flowers few, secund, drooping, 
pale yellow-green, lip yellow, no ridges shown; 3, a smaller plant, leaves 9 in., 
scape 7 in., densely clothed with imbricating sheaths 3 in. long ; raceme suberect, 
secund, 5-fld. ; flowers yellowish, 12 in. long: this last is named Cymbid. elegans, 
var. lutescens. 
2. C. Mastersii, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 218; raceme short, 
flowers 2 in. long white, lip quite glabrous purple spotted, central ridge 
evanescent below, column glabrous, capsule 2in.long. Cymbidium Mas- 
tersil, Griff. mss. ex Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1845, t. 50; in Gard. Chron. 1845, 
643; Pazt. Fl. Gard. t. 78; Floral Mag. N. S. t. 891; Jard. Fleur. t. 289 ; 
Reichenbachia, t. 66. O. micromeron, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 29 
(erel. lip). C. affine, Griff. Notul. iii. 336; Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 291, f. 3; 
Lindl, l. c. 98. 
Assam, Mann. KnHasiA Mrs., alt. 4-5000 ft., Griffith, &c. 
Habit and foliage of C. elegans, but raceme very short, decurved at the top, 
flowers larger, always white with a little red on the lip and smelling of almonds, lip 
broader, without the basal calli and quite glabrous; column stouter and pollinia 
broader ; capsule very much larger.—It is not easy in the case of indifferent 
dried Specimens to distinguish this from Cymbid. eburneum except by the smaller 
flower. Lindley’s Cymbid. micromeron consists of a flowering and fruiting speci- 
men of this, together with the loose lip and column of a Cælogyne, from which 
the specific character is drawn. The same author, referring to Griffith’s descrip- 
* tion of C, affine (from Churra), to that of C. densiflorum from Myrung, and of 
another species from Surureem (all in the Khasia Mts.), observes, “ It is impos- 
sible to reconcile the statements made for Griffith by his editor, without 
assuming that some confusion has taken place.” To this confusion Lindley has 
added by transferring the name afine, Griff, from the Churra to the Surureem 
plant. Of the three the only one certainly recognizable by the description is 
C. densiflorum, which is certainly Cyperorchis elegans (I have gathered it at 
Myrung). C. affine and the unnamed one, having white flowers, are both probably 
C. Mastersii, a name which Griffith’s affine would have superseded, had he really 
given it; but on referring to his mss. preserved at Kew, I find no such name, 
Griffith's description being headed * Colog. affine," meaning simply that it is a 
plant allied to Calogyne, and the Churra plant is so ticketed by himself in 
9th his own herbarium (at Kew) and in Lindley's, to whom he sent a specimen. 
No doubt the error was the editor's, who replaced Celog. by Cymbidium. The name 
of Mastersii is an mss. one of Griffiths given to cultivated specimens which he sent 
from the Calcutta Gardens to the Royal Horticultural Society. 
C. affine, Warner Orchid. Alb. t. 140; Floral Mag. N. S. t. 346, is certainly not 
the plant described and figured under that name by Griffith ; it has widely spreadiug 
Sepals and petals, and the lip of a true Cymbidium. 
3. C. cochleare, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 318; raceme 
elongate, sepals and petals very narrow, flowers 2 in. long, greenish brown, 
lp glabrous, median ridge strong 2-fid or spathulate at the tip vanishing 
|o nwards, column very slender glabrous, pollen pyriform, capsule 15 in. 
ong. Cymbidium cochleare, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 28. 
o SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 4-6000 ft., J. D. H., fe, Kasia Hie alt. 5-6000 ft., 
arke; at Myrung, Griffith. Tezpore in Assam, Mann. . 
sepal aves 2-3 ft, by A in. Scape 12-18 in., very slender ; sheaths 3-4 in., lax ; 
pa s and revolute petals brownish green; lip yellow speckled with red, midlobe 
Suborbicular, golden-yellow. 
