Tab. 5710. 



CYMBIDIUM pendulum ; var. atro-purpurea. 



Pendulous Cymbidium, purple-flowered variety. 



Nat. Ord. Oechide^.— Gynandbia Monandria. 

 Gen. Char. {Fide supra, Tab. 5457.) 



Cymbidium pendulum ; foliis ensiformibus distichis coriaceis oblique ob- 

 tusis, racemis pendulis multifloris, bracteis minutis, floribus 2\ poll, 

 diametro, sepalis petalisque subaequalibus lineari-oblongis obtusius- 

 culis, labelli 3-lobi lobis lateralibus parvis acutis, intermedio ovato y. 

 oblongo obtuso v. apiculato, disco lainellis 2 parallelis approximate 

 mediocribus. Swartz, Nov. Act. Tips. v. 6. p. 73. Lindl. Bot. Beg. 

 1860. t. 25. 



Var. atro-purpurea; sepalis petalisque extus flavo-viridibus intus atro-pur- 

 pureis, labelli pallide purpureo-maculati lobo iutenoedio lateralibus 

 triplo majore recurvo basi dilatato. 



There can, I think, be little doubt but that this fine plant 

 is a form of C. pendulum, Swartz, a native of Singapore, 

 Java, and the Philippine Islands, as well as of many parts 

 of India proper, as the Himalaya and Khasia mountains, 

 and those of the Western Peninsula. It flowered with 

 Messrs. Rollison, of Tooting, in March of the present year, 

 and was imported from the East Indian islands, probably Java, 

 but this is, I understand, doubtful. The leaves were three 

 feet in length, and spikes of two feet and a half, presenting 

 a truly noble appearance, far surpassing any of the other 

 varieties of the same species hitherto discovered. ^ allien s 

 C. Finlaysonianum (Tab. n. 7358) seems hardly different from 

 C. pendulum, and there are probably many other forms. 



Descr. Stems tufted. Leaves two to three feet long, equi- 

 tant, and deeply grooved at the base, then ensiform, half an 

 inch to three-quarters of an inch broad, keeled, very co- 

 riaceous, obliquely obtuse at the apex, one half ending in 

 an incurved tooth. Spike two feet long, lnx, pendulous. 

 manv-flowered. Bracts very minute. Sepals and petals 

 similar, an inch and a half to an inch and two-thirds long, 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, externally dull yellow- 



«JHI 1st, 1868. 



