458 GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA, Cymbidium. 
petals; and by the sagittate middle lobe being ornamented 
with two long tendril-like filaments from its apex. 
2. C. aloifolium. Willd. iv. 401. 
Parasitic, stemless, Leaves radical, linear, channelled, ob- 
liquely retuse. Scapes radical, nearly as long as the leaves, 
many-flowered. Petals lanceolate ; /amina three-lobed. 
Found by Mr. M. R. Smith growing on various sorts of 
trees on the Garrow hills, in full blossom in April. 
3. C. pendulum. Willd, iv. 101. 
Parasitic, stemless, Leaves radical, linear, distichous ; Te- 
tuse. Racemes radical, pendulous, longer than the leaves, 
many-flowered. 
Epidendrum pendulum. Corom. pl. x. NW. 44. 
A native of the forests which cover the Circar mountains 
as well as of Bengal. Flowering time the hot season. 
Root of many fleshy fibres, which adhere to the bark of 
the parent tree, stemless. Leaves radical, from three to five, al- 
ternate, bifarious, &c, as in the two former species, only here 
they are from one and a half to three feet long, and about an 
inch and a half broad, Scape radical, about two feet long, 
the lowermost three or four inches is involved in chaffy 
-sheaths, the rest is the raceme, or flower-bearing part, which 
is perfectly pendulous, and many-flowered. Bractes minute, 
one-flowered. Petals lanceolate, spreading, equal, striated 
with red aud yellow. Lip three-parted. 
4.0. ividifolium. R. 
Parasitic, stemless, Leaves bifarious, ensiform. Spikes 
filiform, drooping. Flowers sub-verticelled, Lip round- 
reniform, laciniate. 
A very elegant species, found growing on trees in the 
forests of Silhet ; it fowers during the cold season. Here the 
spikes are solitary from the bosom of the exterior leaf, sup- 
ported in a pretty long, two-edged peduncle. The flower- 
