[ 1437 ] 

 Cymbidium coccineum. Scarlet- 

 flowered Cymbidium. 



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C/j/} and Order, 

 Gynandria Diandria. 



Generic Characler, 



Cor. 4 — 5-petala erefta vel patens. Neflarium concavum, 

 bafi calcaratum, lamina patula. Anthera opercularis, decidua. 

 Pollen globofum. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



CYMBIDIUM coccineum; fubcaulefcens, foliis terminalibus 

 aliifque radicalibus bulbo innatis enfiformibus obtufis, 

 fcapis filiformibus axillaribus unifloris. Swartz Nov. Acl. 

 Upfal, 6. p. 70. and in TracJs on Botany \ p. 168. Willd. 

 Sp. PL v. 4. p. 94. Perfoon Synop. 2. p. 514. 6. 



EPIDENDRUM coccineum; foliis caulinis enfiformibus ob- 

 tufis, pedunculis unifloris axillaribus confertis. Sp. PI. 

 1 34^- 7 aC( J- Amer. p. 222. /. 135. 



HELLEBORINE coccinea multiflora. Plum. Spec. $. ic. 180. 



The orchidea in general are rather difficult to cultivate, but 

 the parafitical ones in particular were long thought beyond 

 the power of art to bring to any tolerable degree of perfe&ion 

 in our northern climate. Of late years however, by planting 

 them in a mold compofed chiefly of decayed wood, and cover- 

 ing the furface with large pieces of bark ; fome cultivators 

 have fucceeded to admiration with many of them. 



The Cymbidium coccineum has been feen here in flower 

 before, but perhaps never in the fame perfection as in the 

 bark Move of Meffrs. Loddigf.s, at Hackney, in June laft, 

 from whence our drawing was made. 



When 



