.-^ BOTANTCAl. MA<iAZL\'i:. iv,.). xvi. 



Cymbidium scabroserrulatum Makino s]). wow 



Terre:^trial ; cespitose. Eoots deii.st^ly tufted, simple, elongate, stout, 

 tleshy, y(>l]owish-pale. P.seudbulbs not large, erect or ascending, ovate to cla- 

 vato-obovate, aggregated, hard, about 11 era. across, the internodes short, the 

 nodes furnished with splitting leaf-fibres. Leaves elongate, erect and recurved 

 above, fasciculate with about 3-9, linear, gradually atteiuiated towards Loth 

 ends, shortly acuminate, serrulato-scabrous on margin, rigidly coriaceo-charta- 

 ceous, coriaceous and canaliculate internally and sulxiarinate dorsaliy below, tubu- 

 lar and merabranace(jus-margined at the base, nervate, with a farrow in centre 

 on the uiii>er surface, green, concolorous, slightly shining, glabrous, 28-80 era. 

 long, 7-13 mm. broad ; midrib slender, prominent beneath as are the lateral 

 main veins which are one on each side ; veintels 6-17 in whole number. Scai)e 

 shorter than the leaves inchuling the raceme, lateral, erect, terete, glabrous, 

 with membranaceous acuminate many-nerved sheaths ; the upper sheaths 

 usually apart, usually tubular below, but the uppermost one often without the 

 tube, the longest one attaining nearly 5 cm., the basal ones gradually shorter 

 and imbricated. Raceme erect, shorter than the scape, more or less secund- 

 ly and laxly 5-10-flowered ; rachis straight or subllexuous, glabrous, subterete, 

 often somewhat obtusely angulate, viridescent or often more or less purplish as 

 is the scape, lO-l.Jcm. long; bracts sliglitly shorter than the ovary, 

 narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, membranaceous, with 3 main verves, 

 7-21 mm. long. Flowers about 3i-5 cm. across, slightly odoriferous. 

 Perianth yellowish-viridesceut, often shaded with light purple externally, 

 thickish, entire ; outer perianth jiatent and at length more or less de- 

 flexed backwards, equal in size, linear-lanceolate, sharply acute, ;j-nerved, 

 2|-3icm. long, 4-i-G mm. wide, the lateral ones scarcely oblique in form; 

 inner perianth directed forwards, shorter than the outer ones, narrowly 

 lanceolate, acute or acutish, entire, scarcel}' oblique in form, .5 or 7-nerved, 

 2-2 1 cm. long, .5i- nearly 7 mm. wide, longitudinally purple in centre 

 below. Labellum sessile with the rounded-obtuse and yellow base, 2^- 

 2| cm. long, obscurely 3-lol)ed ; lateral loloes erect, rounded and entire- 

 edged, white as is the disk, [)nrple-margined and pur[tle barred in the 

 intramarginal portion, the disk thick, with mauy and minute jxirple spots 

 within the central canal, tlie ridges closely approximate, rised in the front 

 portion and rounded-obtuse at its end; the midlobe much reflexed, ovato- 

 lanceolate, longer than the disk, acutish or subobtuse, crisped-raargined, 

 thick isli, viridescent, piipilloso-}>ubesceut and irregularly blotched with 

 purple, 15-17 mm. long, 7-8 ram. broad. Gynostemium erect, arcuate 

 forwards, compressed, 12-1-1 mm. lung, 4-.") mm. wide, glabrous, yellow 



