Tas. 4844. 
CYMBIDIUM GaicanTevm. 
Gigantic Cymbidium. 
Nat. Ord. Onco1pE#.—GYNANDRIA Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. Perianthium explanatum, petalis sepalisque subzequalibus liberis. 
Labellum sessile, liberum, ecalcaratum, concavum, cum basi column nunc arti- 
culatum, nunc leviter concavum vy. trilobum. <Anthera bilocularis. Pollinia 2, 
sepius postice biloba, in glandulam subtriangularem subsessilia. Lindl. 
CyMBIDIUM giganteum; foliis ensiformibus striatis acutis racemo cernuo multifloro 
longioribus, bracteis minutis, sepalis oblongis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis 
acutis, labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus parvis acutis basi pubescentibus inter- 
medio multo majore ovato acuto undulato medio barbato lamellis arcuatis 
apice connatis pilosis. Lindl, 
CymBIpIuM giganteum. Wall. Cat. n. 7355 (non Willd.). Lindl. Gen. et Sp. 
Orchid. p. 163. Sert. Orchid. t. 4. Past. Mag. of Bot. p. 241, cum Ie. 
? CrmBrpIvM iridioides. Don, Prodr. p. 36. aes Uae 
Native of Nepaul and Kamaon, where it was discovered by 
Dr. Wallich, and by him introduced to our gardens. The figure 
of this noble and fragrant species in the ‘Sertum Orchidaceum ’ 
above quoted, from a drawing by Dr. Wallich’s draughtsman, is 
so unlike our plant in the colour and form of the flowers, that 
we should have failed to have recognized it as the same, had it 
not been for the figure in the ‘ Magazine of Botany,’ which seems 
intermediate between the bright, spotted, and streaked flowers 
of our plant and the very dull and unexpanded sepals and petals 
of the Indian drawing; the foliage however is faithfully repre- 
sented ; and certainly, though placed by Dr. Lindley in a section 
of which the species should be destitute of bulb, our plant has 
a very evident pseudobulb, clothed with the remarkable broad 
and sheathing bases of the leaves. Flowers with us in the stove 
in September and October. 
-  Drsor. Stemless. Roots thick, fleshy, terete. Pseudobulb large, 
oblong, leafy. Zeaves two to two and a half feet long, distichous, 
APRIL Ist, 1855. 
