460 GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Cymbidium. 
7. C. imbricatum, Roxb. 
Parasitic. Stems bulbiform. Leaves lanceolar, nerved, 
one from the apex of each bulb. Spikes solitary, from the 
bosom of the leaf, long-peduncled, drooping, oe im- 
bricated, with one-flowered bractes. 
Wellia Theka-maravara. Rheed. Mal. xii. t. 24. 
A native of the forests of Chittagong and Silhet ; where it 
is found on trees, in flower during the rains, 
Root of many, slender, fleshy fibres, which fix to the bark 
of the parent trees. Stems no other than a number of oblong, 
fleshy bulbs, annually producing new ones from their base, 
which are at first sub-cylindric, and invested in two or three 
short sheaths. Leaves lanceolar, three-nerved and somewhat 
plaited, smooth, of a glossy green, one, never more, from the 
apex of each young bulb, deciduous about the end of the first 
year, leaving the new full grown bulb, which perishes in the 
course of the second and third year, from six to eight inches 
long, by about two broad. Spikes a single, long, slender, 
pedicelled, cylindric one rising from the bosom or axill of 
each leaf, compactly imbricated on opposite sides, with nu- 
merous, oblong, smooth, one-flowered bractes, when a little 
advanced in size drooping. Corol, three exterior petals near- 
ly equal ; the interior one linear-falcate, and with the exterior 
upper one forming a vault over the column. Lip with large 
erect sides embracing the column, and broad, three-lobed 
apex pointing back to the rachis, Column short, with @ 
broad, thin, concave margin. .Anthers terminal, of a deep 
orange colour, two-celled. Pollen masses two pair, oval, 
waxy, of a pale yellow. Capsules oblong, six-ribbed, smooth, 
rather less than an inch long. 
fe C. bambusifolium, R. 
Terrestrial, caulescent. Leaves bifarious, sssatensncliia 
‘much attenated, fine-pointed. Panicle, or raceme terminal ; 
the exterior three petals linear-lanceolate ; the inner two ob- 
Jong-ventricose. Lip length of the petals, thresrlobedisshe 
middle lobe more or less cloven. 
