Tab. 78G3. 

 CYMBIDIUM SiMONsiANUM. 



Native of Sikhim and Assam. 



Nat. Ord. Orchide^. — Tribe Vande^. 

 Genus Cymbibium, Sw.; {Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 536.) 



Ctmbididm (Eucymbidium) Simonsiavum ; epiphyticuni, foliis 2-3-pedalibua 

 eessilibns anguste linearibns ad | poll, latis acutis v. acuminatis basi 

 non dilatatis, pedunculo breviusculo decurvo basi vaginia striatis dis- 

 tichia imbricatis 1-2-pollicaribns instructo, racemo pendulo laxe 10-12- 

 floro, bracteia subulatis appressis 5 in. longis, pedicel lia cum ovariia 

 1-1 2 poll. _ longis, florib us odoratlsjsepalis patulis lineari-oblongis subgriseo- 

 albist'aacia media sanguinea ornatis, petalis sepalia consimilibus et con- 

 coloribus sed paullo minoribns, labello sepalia dimidio breviore loblg 

 sanguineo ornatis lateralibua brevibus columnae asquilongis obtnsis, inter- 

 medio revoluto ovate apiculato, disco inter loboa lateralea 2-carinato, 

 cariuis glandnloso-pilosip, columna atro-purpurea, polliniis obtuse 

 deltoideis sessilibus glandula brevi lata. 



C. Simorsianum, King & Pantl. in Joum. As. Soc. Beng. Ixiv. para II. (1895) 

 p. 338, et Ann. Bot. Oard. Calcutta, vol. viii. (1898) p. 188, tab. 250. 



According" to King and Pantling in tlie works cited 

 above, Gymbidium Simonsianum was discovered in Assam 

 by the late Dr. J. C. Simons, who sent very large 

 collections both to the Botanical Gardens of Calcutta and 

 to Sir W. Hooker in 1830-40. Jt has since been found 

 at the foot of the Sikkim Himalaya, in the Teesta Valley, 

 by Mr. Pantling, flowering in August. It is well described 

 in the Annals of the Koyal Botanic Gardens of Calcutta, 

 except that the pollinia are described as falcately ovoid, 

 with a narrow gland (rather strap), whereas in the draw- 

 ing, figs. 6 and 7, they precisely resemble those represented 

 in our plate, figs. 3 and 4. Its nearest ally is C. Imuji- 

 folium^ Don, a native of the sub-tropical Himalaya from 

 Kumaon eastward, and of the Khasia Mts., which has a 

 broader midlobe of the tip spotted with red. The plant 

 here figured was purchased as G. Dayaninn for the Koyal 

 Gardens, Kew, from Messrs. Barr & Sons, Covent Garden, 

 in 1900, with other Orchids, said to have come from Japan. 

 It flowered in a cool house in October, 1901, and was 

 sweet-scented. 



Descr. — Leaves sessile, very narrowly linear, two to 



^uvEiiBER 1st, 1902. 



