464 GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA, Cymbidium, 
gal, and found on various trees, though chiefly on the man- 
goe. Flowering time the rainy season. 
Stem creeping, sending forth long, thick, round, ramous, 
fleshy, whitish roots, which fasten firmly to the trunk or 
branches of the tree they grow on, The plants are seldom 
more than two or three feet in length, for they decay at the 
base, as fast as they shoot from the top. Leaves sheathing, 
bifarious, approximate, recurved, linear, keeled, preemorse, 
five or six inches long. Scape generally axillary, solitary, 
naked, supporting from six to twelve large beautiful flow- 
ers. Petals five, nearly equal, expanding, oblong ; margins 
waved, and here and there a little inflected ; upper surface 
as in E. tessallatum, checkered-with yellow and dusky fer- 
ruginous purple, underneath white. Lip shorter than the 
petals, Horn conical, protruding towards the germ, be- 
tween the two lower petals; lamina oblong, turgid ; apex 
two-lobed ; sides reflexed, so as to be convex above, and 
deeply concave underneath; in ¢essallatum incurved into a 
tube, and the apex acute; colour bluish purple or violet to- 
wards the apex; the upper lip or portion which forms the 
attachment of the lip and horn to the base of the column of 
the fructification, has two lateral lobes, obliquely broad- 
lanceolate, with their acute points incurved towards the apex | 
of the column, Column of the fructification thick, short and 
obtuse, open in the interior margin near the apex. This mouth, 
or opening tapers down through the column, into a point, 
which ends in the belly of the germ ; operculum sub-orbicu- 
lar, with two pits for the two round polliniferous balls ; when 
the lid of which is removed gently, the two anthers rise with 
a jerk in their broad cordate filaments; the lid inserted on 
the interior parts of the top of the column by a large infun- 
dibuliform base. If removed with less care, and before the 
anthers are ripe, they remain in their cells, and the funnel- 
shaped base of the filament rises erect. Stigma or channel 
_ for conveying the subtile male essence to the germ a clammy 
opening in the fore part of the column near its top. Pert- 
