Tab. 5457. 

 CYMBIDIUM TIGRINUM. 



Spotted-lipped Cymbidium. 



Nat. Ord. Orchide.*:. — Gynandria. Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Perlanthium explanatum, petalls sej/alis(\\ie subsequalibus liberis. 

 Lahellum sessile, liberum, ecalcaratum, concavum, cum basi columns nunc arti- 

 culatum, nunc leviter connatum, indivisum vel trilobum. Columna erecta, semi- 

 teres. Anthera biloculares. Pollinia 2, saepius poslice biloba, in glandulam 

 subtriangularem subsessilia. Lindl. 



Cymbidium tigrinum; pseudobulbis aggregates subrotundis ovatisve striatis, 

 vetustis foliorum delapsorum basibus quasi-operculatis, foliis subsolitariis 

 oblongo-lanceolatis parum tortuosis acutis, scapo radicali, bracteato subtri- 

 floro; sepalis petalisque conformibus linearibus patenti-incurvis, Jabello 

 longe uuguiculato trilobo albo purpureo-maculato, lobis lateralibus erectis, 

 interraedio lato-oblongo apiculato ; basi callis duobus ; columna elongata 

 semiterete. 



Cymbidium tigrinum. Parish, ms. 



This is but one of many new Orchidaceous plants sent from 

 the Malay Peninsula to Messrs. Lowe, of the Clapton Nursery, 

 by the Rev. C. S. P. Parish. It was detected by that gentleman 

 in 1863, upon rocks in the Tenasserim mountains, at an eleva- 

 tion of 6000 feet above the level of the sea, and the plants were 

 accompanied by a faithful drawing from his pencil. Mr. Bate- 

 man remarks, " the compact pseudobulbs, and its few-flowered 

 spikes, are very unlike anything in the genus with which I am 

 acquainted.'' 



I have here adopted Dr. Lindley's character for the genus 

 Cymbidium, but what are its limits I do not understand. That 

 author, in 1840, enumerated in his ' Genera et Species Orchide- 

 arum,' forty species. Keichenbach, fil., seems to have reduced 

 them to nineteen, in Walpers' 'Annates Botanices Systematicae.' 



Descr. Pseudobulbs clustered, as large as walnuts, subrotund 

 or. ovate, scarred at the top, in the old ones, by the persistent 

 bases of the fallen leaves. Leaves three to four inches long, one 



JDLY 1st, 1864. 



