460 GYNANDRiA MON \NDRiA. Cymbidium. 



7. C. imbricatum. Roxb. 



Parasitic. Sleim bnlbiform. Leaves lanceolar, nerved, 

 one from the apex of each bulb. Spikes solitar}', from the 

 bosom of the leaf, long-ped uncled, drooping, bifariously im- 

 bricated, with one-flowered bractes. 



Wellia Theka-maravara. Rheed. Mai. xii. t. 24. 



A native of the forests of Chittagonii- and Silliet ; where it 

 is found on trees, in flower during the rains. 



Root of many, slender, fleshy fibres, which fix to the bark 

 of the parent trees. Stems no other than a number of oblong, 

 fleshy bulbs, annually producing new ones from their base, 

 which are at first sub cylindric, and invested in two or three 

 short sheaths. Leaves lanceolar, three-nerved and somewhat 

 plaited, smooth, of a glossy green, one, never more, from the 

 apex of each young bulb, deciduous about the end of the first 

 year, leaving the new full grown bulb, which perishes in the 

 course of the second and third year, from six to eight inches 

 long, by about two broad. Spikes a single, long, slender, 

 pedicelled, cylindric one rising from the bosom or axill of 

 each leaf, compactly imbricated on opposite sides, with nu- 

 merous, oblong, smooth, one-flowered bractes, when a little 

 advanced in size drooping. Corol, three exterior petals near- 

 ly equal ; the interior one linear-falcate, and with the exterior 

 upper one forming a vault over the column. Lip with large 

 erect sides embracing the column, and broad, three-lobed 

 apex pointing back to the rachis. Column short, with a 

 broad, thin, concave margin. ./^wMers terminal, of a deep 

 orange colour, two-celled. Pollen masses two pair, oval, 

 waxy, of a pale yellow. Capsules oblong, six-ribbed, smooth, 

 rather less than an inch long. 



8. C. bambusijblium. R. 



Terrestrial, caulescent. Leaves bifarious, linear-lanceolate, 

 much attenated, fine-pointed. Panicle^ or raceme terminal ; 

 the exterior three petals liuear-lanceolate ; the inner two ob- 

 lona--ventricose. Lip length of the petals, three-lobed ; the 

 middle lobe more or less cloven. 



