Tas. 5574, 
CYMBIDIUM Hooxertanvm. 
Dr. Hooker's Cymbidium. 
Nat. Ord. Oncuipex.—GynanpRIA Monanpreia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4884.) 
CyrmBipium Hookerianum ; foliis lineari-ligulatis acutis (bipedalibus), va- 
ginis energice striatis, pedunculo porrecto racemoso grandifloro, floribus 
illos Cymbidii eburnei e2quantibus, sepalis petalisque stellatis, oblongis 
obtuse acutis, petalis paulo angustioribus, labello trifido, laciniis late- 
ralibus basi subsemicordatis, seu equalibus, antice angulatis, lacinia 
antica subcordata ovata transversa lobulosa, lineis geminis velutinis a 
basi disci in basin lacinie antic, labello ceterum hine illince subvelu- 
tino —Sepala et petala viridia. Labellum et columna albo-flavida, 
guttis atropurpureis. Rchb. fil. in ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle, Jan. 6, 1866. 
CympBipium Hookerianum. Gard. Chron. l. ce. 
I have copied from the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle’ for January 
6 of the current year, Professor Reichenbach’s account of 
this very remarkable plant, which was by him gracefully de- 
dicated to Dr. Hooker, ‘‘ with his best wishes and as a gratu- 
lation for the first New Year’s Day of his Kew directorship.” 
Mr. Fitch’s drawing was taken from a plant that flowered 
this spring in the establishment of Messrs. Veitch, to whom 
it was sent many years ago by Mr. Lobb. According to Dr. 
Hooker, it grows wild in the Sikkim Himalaya, having been 
gathered there by himself in a district where he happened to 
‘meet with Lobb, who no doubt obtained his specimens from 
the same quarter. These flowered at Exeter not long after 
_ their arrival, but—owing probably to their having been kept 
too warm—many years elapsed before they flowered a se- 
cond time. This, however, they have at length done, thanks 
no doubt to their having been placed by Mr. Dominy under 
cooler treatment. The species is epiphytical and should be 
grown in a large pot, in which, if properly managed, it pre- 
sents a very striking appearance, 
Dr. Hooker, who, it has been already mentioned, saw the 
MAY Ist, 1866. 
