— Cymbidium. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 461 
Found indigenous in the forests of Chittagong, growing in 
well shaded places on the face of moist rocks, &c. Flower- 
ing time the hot season, March and April chiefly. 
Stems erect, shrubby, when in flower three, four or even 
- five feet high, Leaves bifarious, sheathing, linear-lanceolate, 
smooth, tapering from the base, and very acute, faintly from 
four to eight-nerved, besides the larger middle one ; from six 
to nine inches long, and under one in breadth. Inflorescence 
terminal, sometimes a single, simple raceme, but in larger ro- 
bust plants, a large panicle, composed of many, erect, spread- 
ing, simple, or compound ramifications or racemes. Bractes 
sheathing, one-flowered. Flowers numerous, large, rosy, 
with the lip of a lively red purple and very beautiful. Pe- 
tals, the exterior three, linear-lanceolate ; the inner two, ob- 
long-ventricose. Lip three-lobed, with the sides or lateral 
lobes incurved into a tube round the column; middle lobe 
sub-rotund,and more or less cloven; margins elegantly curl- 
ed. Capsules linear-oblong, six-ribbed. 
9. C. triste, Willd. iv. 99. 
Patasitic, caulescent, creeping. Leaves cylindric, filiform, 
rigid. Flowers forming little, short-peduncled, lateral co- 
rymbiform heads. Lip fleshy, with reniform cordate lamina. 
Epidendrum triste. Forst. prod. NV. 314. 
A very delicate, rather small species, found on trees in the 
forests which cover great part of the Delta of the Ganges. In 
flower during the hot season. 
Roots long, crooked, and rather fleshy. Stems ramous, 
creeping, slender as a quill, decaying at the base as they 
shoot from the apex. Leaves alternate, bifarious, sheathing, 
cylindric, long, slender, rigid, solid, variously curved, smooth, 
without any appearance of groove, or angle, as thick aS a 
pack-thread, and about six inches long. Peduneles solitary, 
bursting the sheaths of the leaves, very short, few-flowered. — 
Flowers small, in a little hemispheric, or corymbiform head. 
Petals linear, rather shorter than the lip, smooth, of a pale 
