Tab. 4141 



CYMBIDIUM OCHROLEUCUM. 

 Pale Yellow Cymbidium. 



Nat. Ord. Orchide^e. — Gynandria Monandria. 

 CYMBIDIUM. (Tide supra Tab. 3648.) 



Cymbidium ochroleucum; caulescens axillis pseudobulbiferum, foliis ligu- 

 latis carinatis apice Oblique emarginatis, floribus solitariis axillaribus, 

 sepalis petalisque aequaliter patentibus lineari-oblongis subspathulatis 

 acutiusculis, labello cucullato trilobo disco barbato. Lindl. 



Cymbidium ochroleucum. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid, p. 168. 



Camaridium ochroleucum. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 844. 



Ornithidium album. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 8306. 



This plant has a very singular mode of growth, producing 

 its distichous flowers in a leafy spike quite distinct from the 

 pseudo-bulbs, which themselves originate from the axils of 

 leafy branches : and the plant has not yet had justice done to 

 it in either of the figures above quoted, least of all in that of 

 the Botanical Magazine ; whence I have thought it deserving 

 of being again represented. The flowers of the leafy spike 

 open in succession, but I have never seen more than two 

 expanded at once. 



Descr. Stem compressed, much branched, and proliferous, 

 bearing oblong, compressed, smooth pseudo-bulbs, having a 

 long, ligulate leaf on each side at the base, and about three 

 terminal leaves of the same shape. Flowers from the axils 

 °f the leaves of a long, proliferous shoot, or branch, which 

 bears small, distichous, ovato-oblong, acute leaves, one flower 

 in each axil opening successively from below, and bracteated ; 

 bracteas subulate, brown. Flowers white or cream-color, 

 fragrant, rather large. Sepals and petals nearly uniform, 

 oblongo-obovate, the latter rather narrower; all of them 

 concave. Lip applied to the column, yellow, streaked trans- 

 versely with red, oblong, three-lobed; siderlobes small, middle 

 one obtuse ; the disk of the lip has a broad crest, formed of 



