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 Cymbidium hyacinthinum. Hyacinthine 



Cymbidium. 



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Clqfs and Order. 



Gynandria Monandria. 



Generic Character. 



Cor. 5-petala, ere£ta vel patens. Lahellwn bad concavum, 

 ecalcaratum, lamina patula. Anthera opercularis, decidua. Pollen 

 globofum. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



CYMBIDIUM hyacinthinum; radice tuberofa, foliis lanceolatis 

 multinerviis, floribus ere&is racemofis, labello imbeibi 

 fulcato quadrilobo. Smith Exot. Bot. p. 117. /. 60. 



LIMODORUM hyacinthinum. Hort. Cant. ed. 6. p. 236. 



Profeflbr Swartz in his valuable treatifes on the Or- 

 cHiDEi:, publifhed firft in the Swedifh and Latin languages, 

 and tranflated and republished in 'Trails on Botany, has arranged 

 the Limodorum altum of LinnjEUS, under his new genus 

 Cymbidium, fince adopted by Prof. Willdenow and our 

 friend Dr. Smith. Our plant, from its affinity with that fpecies. 

 could not but be arranged under the fame genus, and accordingly 

 we find the name of Cymbidium hyacinthinum given it in the 

 Exotic Botany of the laft-mentioned author; where it was firft. 

 noticed. It is diftinguifhed from Limodorum and Dendro- 

 bium by the want of any fpur to the labellum or ne&ary. 



Native of Chin a ; but not, we believe, of Trinidad. Intro- 

 duced by Thomas Evans, Efq. of the India-Houfe, in 1803. 

 Flowers in the ftove at different feafons of the year. Our 

 drawing was taken at Meffrs, Lfe and Kennedy's in April. 



