Cymbidium. cynandria monanduia. 457 



little waved ; about six inclies long. Spikes from the centre 

 of the leaves, and about their length, naked, striated, the up- 

 per half crowded with numerous, very small, greenish yel- 

 low, sessile, drooping flowers. Bractes solitary, one-flower- 

 ed, recurved, linear-lanceolate. Corol ; petals five, somewhat 

 ferruginous ; the upper two obliquely ovate, incumbent over 

 the nectary, lower three sub-cuneate, and longer than the 

 other two. Labellum greenish, inserted on the base of the 

 column on the upper side, shorter than petals, ovate-cordate ; 

 apex enlarged with an obtuse point, concave and incumbent 

 over the column, like the roof of a house. Column of the fruc- 

 tification short, sub-cylindric. Anthers minute, a pair being 

 in each lobe of the lid, or cover. Stigma a clammy chink just 

 below the anthers, on the upper side of the column, the situa- 

 tion of the nectary, and column being inverted, or resupinate. 



CYMBIDIUM. Srvarlz. 



Corol five-petalled, erect or spreading. Lip with con- 

 cave base, and no horn ; lamina spreading. Anther a deci- 

 duous lid. Pollen globular. 



1. C. amabile. R. 

 . Parasitic, steraless. Leates radical, few, lanceolate. Scape 

 naked, few-flowered, perennial, by age becoming ramous. 

 Lateral petals sub-orbicular; middle lobe of the nectary sa- 

 gittate, with two twisted recurved filaments from its apex. 



Epidendrum amabile. Willd. 



Angraecum album magus. Rumph. Amb. vi. t. 43. 



A native of the Moluccas, and from thence introduced in- 

 to the Company's Botanic garden in 1798, where it blossoms 

 in March and April. 



The flowers of this charming species are very large, pure 

 white, and fragrant. 



The nectary is here distinctly pedicelled, besides it is ren- 

 dered remarkable by the two large lateral lobes like distinct 

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