1530 



CYMBIDIUM* marginatum. 

 Red-edged Cymbidium. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orchide^ Juss. § Vandese Lindl. {Introduction to the 

 natural system of Botany, p. 262.) 



CYMBIDIUM.— Supra, vol. 7. fol. 529. 



Sect. 4. Rhizoma repens,pseudo-bolbos l-3-phyllos gerens. (Bolbidium.) 



— Lindl. gen. et sp. Orch. part 3. ined. 



C. pseudo-bulbis ovato-oblongis teretibus 1-3-phyllis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis 

 coriaceis erecto-recurvis, scapis unifloris gracilibus vaginatis foliis bre- 

 vioribus, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis, petalis minoribus conformibus, 

 labello oblongo-lanceolato obtuso cucullato subrepando indiviso. 



? Maxillaria gracilis. Lodd. bot. cab. 1837. 



Folia 4-8 poll, longa, 6-7 lineas lata, atroviridia. Scapi palmares, 



vaginis longis fuscis distantibus. Flores lutei. Sepala pollicem longa, 



rubro-marginata ; supremum cum petalis parallelum labium superius, laterali- 



bus diver gentibus inferius constituentibus. Labellum interrupt^ umbrino 



limbatum. 



An air-plant, native of Rio Janeiro, whence it has 

 been received by the Horticultural Society. It grows 

 freely under the usual management required by this tribe 

 of plants, but does not often flower. Our drawing was 

 made in a stove in the Chiswick Garden in November 

 1830. Young plants may be obtained by dividing the 

 creeping stem, when* the pseudo-bulbs will establish for 

 themselves an independent life by means of their little 

 white and green roots. 



The genus Cymbidium in its most definite state com- 

 prehends none but plants the lower sepals of whose flowers 

 are spreading, the upper with the petals forming a sort 

 of superior lip ; the labellum being articulated with the 

 column, and either entire or 3-lobed, but always cucullate. 



* From xvpfios, a hollow recess; in allusion to the lip. 



