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CYMBlDIUM pendulum. 

 Thick-leaved Cymbidium. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 

 Nat. Orel. Orchidace^. 

 CYMBIDIUM. Botanical Register, vol. I.fol. 529. 



C. pendulum ; foliis ensiformibus disticliis coriaceis oblique obtusis, racemis 

 pendulis multifloris, bracteis minutis, petalis sepalisque lineari-oblongis 

 obtusis, labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus acutis iutermedio oblongo apicu- 

 lato: lamellis continuis approximatis apice couflueutibus. 



Epidendrum pendulum. Roxb. corom. plants. 1. 35. t. 44. 



C. pendulum. Swartz. nov. act. ups. 6. 73. Willd. Sp. PI. 4. 101. no. 30. 

 Roxb.Jl, ind. 3. 458. Lindl. gen. et sp. orch.p. 165. 



C. crassifolium. Wall. cat. no. 7357- 



Originally observed by Dr. Roxburgh on trees in the 

 province of Sylhet, and in the forests which cover the Circar 

 mountains as well as those of Bengal ; afterwards met with 

 at Noakote in Nepal by Dr. Wallich. 



The latter Botanist considered his plant different from 

 that of Roxburgh, and it has smaller flowers ; but I do not 

 perceive in what the distinction otherwise consists. The spe- 

 cimen now figured was sent by Dr. Wallich to the Hon. and 

 Rev. W. Herbert, who forwarded a fine specimen, nearly 

 three feet long, with a dozen flowers upon it, to the Horti- 

 cultural Society in August, 1838. 



It is very distinct from all others. Its leaves are from 

 two to three feet long, stiff, leathery, obliquely obtuse, and 

 strongly furrowed ; at the base they form a distichous tuft, 

 like that produced by the equitant leaves of an Iris. The 

 flowers exceed in size those of any of the species nearly allied 

 to this. They are however of a dirty yellowish brown colour, 

 which diminishes their beauty, notwithstanding the clear red 

 and white of the labellum. As they hang downwards, the 

 plant should be suspended from the roof of the stove like 



May, 1840. k 



