[Prae 78.] 
THE MASTERS CYMBID. 
(CYMBIDIUM MASTERSII.) 
يسدنه‎ Ua 
A handsome Terrestrial Orchid, from the East INDIES. 
Specific Character. 
rowly sword-shaped, obtuse. uncle erect, close formibus obtusis, pedun squamis herbaceis 
co with herbaceous equitant sharp-pointed scales uitantibus acutissimis imbricato, spicá brevi paucifiora 
Spike short, few-flowered, plunged within th is petalisque  lineari-oblongis 
i e es. squamis immersá, sepalis 
als and petals linear-oblong, blunt. Lip obovate, acutis, labello obovato trilobo intüs pubescente, lamellis 
three-lobed, downy inside; with the ridges continuous, continuis apice confluentibus nune in tuberculum subtri- 
confluent at the points, and sometimes expanded into a dentatum expansis, lacinià intermedia oblongá undulata 
three-lobed tubercle ; the middle segment oblong, wavy, lobatá lateralibus obtusis planis. 
lobed, those at the side blunt and flat. 
Cymbidium Mastersii : Grifith in Hort. Bot. Calcutta; Loddiges’ Catalogue, No. 1233; Lindley in Botanical Register, 1845, t. 50. 
Wes this was published in the Botanical Register, seven years ago, nothing could be said about it 
except that it was received from the East Indies by Messrs. Loddiges in the year 1841, and 
blossomed in December, 1844; that it is a very distinct species, with snow-white flowers, sweet- 
scented, having the fragrance of almonds; and that its erect flower-stalk, closely covered with long 
green sharp-pointed equitant imbricated sheaths, is quite unlike that of any other species. It was 
understood to have been named by Griffith after Mr. Masters, one of the principal assistants in the 
Botanical Garden, Calcutta. 
Since that period it has continued to appear occasionally in collections, but remains a rare plant. 
The specimen now figured, if compared with the original plate in the Botanical Register, will show 
what cultivation has done in the hands of Mr. Bateman, from whom we received it last December. 
