Cymbidium. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA, a a 
little waved ; about six inches long. Spikes from the centre 
of the leaves, and about their length, naked, striated, the up- 
per half crowded with numerous, very small, greenish yel- 
low, sessile, drooping flowers. Bractes solitary, one-flower- 
ed, recurved, linear-lanceolate. Corol ; petals five, somewhat 
ferruginous ; the upper two obliquely ovate, incumbent over 
the nectary, lower three sub-cuneate, and longer than the 
other two. Labellum greenish, inserted on the base of the 
column on the upper side, shorter than petals, ovate-cordate ; 
apex enlarged with an obtuse point, concave and incumbent 
over the column, like the roof of a house. Column of the fruc- 
tification short, sub-cylindric. Anthers minute, a pair being 
in each lobe of the lid, or cover. Stigma a clammy chink just. 
below the anthers, onthe upper side of the column, the situa- 
tion of the nectary, and column being inverted, or resupinate. 
CYMBIDIUM. Swartz. 
Corol five-petalled, erect or spreading. Lip with con- 
cave base, and no horn; damina spreading. Anther a deci- 
duous lid. Pollen globular. ; 
1. C. amabile. R. Sis f 
Parasitic, stemless, Leaves radical, few, lanceolate. Scape 
naked, few-flowered, perennial, by age becoming ramous, 
Lateral petals sub-orbicular ; middle lobe of the nectary sa- 
gittate, with two twisted recurved filaments from its apex. 
Epidendrum amabile. Willd. 
Angrecum album magus. Rumph. Amb. vi. t. 43. 
A native of the Moluccas, and from thence introduced in- 
to the Company’s Botanic garden in 1798, where it blossoms 
in March and April. 
The flowers of this charming species are very large, pure 
white, and fragrant. 
The nectary is here distinctly pedicelled, besides it is ren- 
dered remarkable by the two lange lateral lobes like distinct — 
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