Cymbidium. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA, 459 . 
bearing part drooping and crowded in a somewhat verticelled 
form, with innumerable, very minute, beautiful yellow flow- 
ers; the five petals oval, and nearly equal ; the lip two-lobed, 
roundish-reniform, with the whole of the margin deeply jag- 
ged, and the inside tomentose. 
5, C. alatum, R. 
Parasitic, Stems bulbiform, aggregate. Leaf solitary from 
the apex of each bulb, lanceolar. Scapes from the base of 
the bulbs, drooping, many-flowered, Coduwmn much incurv- 
ed ; apex winged ; lamina two-lobed. 
A middling sized species, a native of the forests of Chitta- — 
gong. Flowers small, tinged with ferruginous red, and not 
very conspicuous, they appear in April, and May. 
6. C. nitidum, Roxb. 
Parasitic, Stems bulbiform, shining, with two-petioled, 
lanceolar, lucid leaves from the apex of each. ARaceme axil- 
lary, the length of the leaves. Petals lanceolar ; lamina 
three-lobed, deflected. ? 
A native of the Garrow hills, where it is found growing on’ 
trees, and like the greatest part of this order, blossoms dur-- 
ing the hottest time of the year, viz, May. 
Root of many, hard, pack-thread-like fibres, by which it 
adheres to the parent trees, Stems none, or rather bulbiform, 
long ovate, shining, nearly as large as a pullet’s egg, biennial. 
Leaves two, from the apex of each bulb, petioled, lanceolar, 
shining, about nine inches long, by one and a half broad. 
Racemes one from the apex of each bulb between the two 
leaves, and about their length, smooth, the upper flower-bear- 
ing, half drooping, withering. Flowers a few, large, nearly 
white. Petals five, nearly equal, spreading, lanceolate. Lip 
large ; lamina deflected, three-lobed, lower lobes large, rising 
up, and embracing the exterior lobes, which are ovate and 
rather small. Column elongated, clavate, recurved, apex 
cucullate over the four ovate, deep yellow pollen masses. 
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