Cymbidium. gynandria monandria. 461 



Found indigenous in the forests of Chittagong, growing in 

 well shaded places on the face of moist rocks, &c. Flower- 

 ing time the hot season, March and April chiefly. 



Steins erect, shrubby, when in flower three, four or even 

 five feet high. Leaves bifarious, sheathing, linear-lanceolate, 

 smooth, tapering from the base, and very acute, faintly from 

 four to eight-nerved, besides the larger middle one ; from six 

 to nine inches long, and under one in breadlh. Injlorescence 

 terminal, sometimes a single, simple raceme, but in larger ro- 

 bust plants, a large panicle, composed of many, erect, spread- 

 ing, simple, or compound ramifications or racemes. Bractes 

 sheathing, one-flowered. Flowers numerous, large, rosy, 

 with the lip of a lively red purple and very beautiful. Pe- 

 tals, the exterior three, linear-lanceolate ; the inner two, ob- 

 long-ventricose. Lip thrce-Iobed, with the sides or lateral 

 lobes incurved into a tube round the column ; middle lobe 

 sub-rotund, and more or less cloven ; margin.? elegantly curl- 

 ed. Capsules linear-oblong, six-ribbed. 



9. C. triste. Willd. iv. 99. 



Parasitic, caulescent, creeping. Leaves cylindric, filiform, 

 rigid. Flotvers forming little, short-peduncled, lateral co- 

 rymbiforra heads. Lip fleshy, with reniform cordate lamina. 



Epidendrum triste. Forst. prod. JV. 314. 



A very delicate, rather small species, found on trees in the 

 forests Avhich cover great part of the Delta of the Ganoes. In 

 flower during the hot season. 



Roots long, crooked, and rather fleshy. Stems ramous, 

 creeping, slender as a quill, decaying at the base as they 

 shoot from the apex. Leaves alternate, bifarious, sheathing, 

 cylindric, long, slender, rigid, solid, variously curved, smooth, 

 without any appearance of groove, or angle, as thick as a 

 pack-thread, and about six inches long. Peduncles solitary, 

 bursting the sheaths of the leaves, very short, few-flowered. 

 Floicers small, in a little hemispheric, or corymbifornj head. 

 Petals linear, rather shorter than the lip, smooth, of a pale 



