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* CYMBIDIUM ensitolium; mr. estriatum. 

 Sword-leaved Cymhidium ; streakless variety. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orchidace^, § Vande^;. 

 CYMBWIUM. Suprd, vol. 7. fol. 529. 



C. ensifolium ; foliis llneari-ensiformibus striatis acutis scapis erectis multifloris, 

 bracteis , ovario multo brevioribus, sepalis petalisque lineari-oblongis acutis, 

 labello indiviso planiusculo oblongo undulato revoluto obtuso medio sulcato, 

 sulco pone apicem bidentato. 



Epidendrum ensifolium. Linn. sp. plant. 1352. '^ Smith, spicileg. botanic. 

 22. t. 24." 



Limodorum ensatum. Thunh.fl. jap. 29. Bunks, ic. Kavipf. t. 3. 



C. ensifolium. Swartz. nov. act. ups. 6. 77. Gen. et sp. Orch. If)2. 



a. striatum ; sepalis petalisque concoloribus purpureo-lineatis. Bot. mag. 

 t. 1751. 



/3. estriatum ; sepalis virescentibus petalisque albidis obsolete striatim sanguineo 

 punctatis, lineis nullis. 



The variety of this plant originally introduced from 

 China, we have not seen for some years ; it had flowers dis- 

 tinctly lined with purple, as in the figure in the Botanical 

 Magazine. That which is now more generally cultivated is 

 what is here represented with greener sepals, and pale 

 whitish petals, both without lines ; and seems intermediate 

 between the first and the spotless Cymbidium xiphii folium. 



It is a very easy plant to cultivate, requiring nothing 

 more than good greenhouse management, when it produces 

 quantities of its slightly fragrant flowers in the spring. The 



• See folio 1530. 



VOL. xxiri. 



