458 GYNANDRiA MONANDRiA. Cymbidium. 



petals ; and by the sagittate middle lobe being ornamented 

 with two long- tendril-like filaments from its apex. 



2. C. aloifol'wm. VVilld. iv. 401. 



Parasitic, sten)less. Leaves radical, linear, channelled, ob- 

 liquely retuse. Scapes radical, nearly as long as the leaves, 

 many-flowered. Petals lanceolate ; lamina three-lobed. 



Found by Mr. M. R. Smith growing on various sorts of 

 trees on the Garrow hills, in full blossom in April. 



3. C. pendulum. Willd. iv. 101. 



Parasitic, stemless. Leaves radical, linear, distichous ; re- 

 tuse. Racemes radical, pendulous, longer than the leaves, 

 many-flowered. 



Epidendrum pendulum. Coram, pi. x. JV. 44. 



A native of the forests which cover the Circar mountains 

 as well as of Bengal. Flowering time the hot season. 



Root of many fleshy fibres, which adhere to the bark of 

 the parent tree, stemless. Leaves radical, from three to five, al- 

 ternate, bifarious, &c. as in the two former species, only here 

 they are from one and a half to three feet long, and about an 

 inch and a half broad. Scape radical, about tMO feet long, 

 the lowermost three or four inches is involved in chafTy 

 sheaths, the rest is the raceme, or flower-bearing part, which 

 is perfectly pendulous, and many-flowered. Bractes minute, 

 one-flowered. Petals lanceolate, spreading, equal, striated 

 with red and yellow. Lip three- parted. 



4. C. h'idijolium. R. 



Parasitic, stemless. Leaves bifarious, ensiform. Spikes 

 filiform, drooping. Flowers sub-verticelled. Lip round- 

 reniform, laciniate. 



A very elegant species, found growing on trees in the 

 forests of Silhet ; it flowers during the cold season. Here the 

 spikes are solitary from the bosom of the exterior leaf, sup- 

 ported in a pretty long, two-edged peduncle. The flower- 



