Cymbidium. | -GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 463 
Root, several simple, or ramous, thick, smooth, long, con- 
torted fibres issuing from the lower naked part of the stem, 
as well as where clothed with the lower leaves, and adhering 
firmly to the bark of the tree. Stem perennial, simple, one 
or two feet long, as thick as the little finger, crooked ; the up- 
per part covered with leaves; the lower naked, withering 
away at the lower extremity as it extends from the apex. 
Jeaves approximated, imbricate, alternate, bifarious, linear, 
channelled, fleshy, smooth, very firm, extremities from two 
to three-toothed, from six to nine inches long, and about one 
broad. acemes axillary, solitary, naked, the length of the 
leaves, flower-bearing part winding, few-flowered. Flowers 
from five to ten, remote, bifarious, large, beautifully waved 
and striated with various shades of a greenish yellow. Pe- 
tals oval, spreading, equal, scolloped. Lip the length of the 
petals, about the middle its sides approach, forming a tube, 
apex somewhat pointed. 
Note, When in flower, this is a very beautiful plant; sus- 
pended in a room or elsewhere, it will continue to grow for 
several months, though I believe it will not flower. In this 
manner it, or the following species, has been brought from 
China to the coast, under the name of the air, or Cameleon 
plant, and represented as one of the most wonderful produc- 
tions of nature, because it will only thrive when so suspend- 
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It differs from E. Flos acris, in having the stem simple, 
and ve! Vlg oval and scolloped. 
12. C. saitiihina: ae 
Parasitic, caulescent. Leaves bifarious, equitant, linear, 
preemorse. Racemes lateral, longer than the leaves, Petals 
equal, Lip with a winged claw and fleshy lamina, which 
are convex and clisemelied above, and concave underneath ; 
apex of two obtuse lobes. Horn conic. 
Vanda. Asiat. Res. iv. 302. 
_ This beautiful plant is very common in most “pots of Ben. 
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