Tas: 5126. 
CYMBIDIUM eEsBuRNEUM. 
The Ivory Cymbidium. 
Nat. Ord. OncHIDEH.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4844.) 
CymBipium eburneum ; foliis distichis anguste lineari-ligulatis rigidis apice bi- 
fidis lobis acutis, racemo brevi sub-2-floro, squamis elongatis acuminatis 
imbricatis, floribus amplis obovatis eburneis, sepalis petalisque lineari-ob- 
longis oblongo-lanceolatisve subearnosis acutis subundulatis, labello ob- 
longo apice trilobo lobis lateralibus rotundatis intermedio triangulari-acuto 
margine undulato, lamellis in unam mediam incrassatam carnosam auream 
pubescentem apice tumidam confluentibus. 
Cymprprum eburneum. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. v. 33. t. 67; Paston’s Magazine, 
o. 15. ¢. 145. 
This lovely and rare Orchid has hitherto been found by one 
botanist only, the late Mr. Griffith, who, according to Dr. Lind- 
ley’s notes on the Orchidology of India, discovered it at Myrung, 
on the Khasia mountains of East Bengal, where it grows at an 
elevation of about 5-6000 feet. Fine plants were imported by 
Messrs. Loddiges, probably from the Calcutta Botanic Gardens, 
from which Dr. Lindley described the species in 1847. ‘The 
specimen figured flowered in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in April 
of the present year, and its scent, which is scarcely so sweet as 
is usually described, slightly resembled that of starch. 
Descr. Stems tufted. Leaves distichous at the base, very 
long, linear or lorate, one to two feet long by three-quarters of 
an inch wide, rather rigid, bifid at the apex, the divisions sharp. 
Raceme very short in proportion to the foliage, four to eight 
inches long, decumbent or inclined, few-flowered, covered with 
long, sharp, imbricating dracts. Flowers of a fine ivory- 
white colour, five to six inches across. Se d petals similar, 
linear-oblong, acute, scarcely undulate. , shorter, with 
incurved margins, three-lobed at the apex; he outer lobes 
rounded, terminal, ovate, crisped or undulate at the margm; a 
JULY lst, 1859. 
