Cymbidiwn.'] OrchidecB. lyg 



Rootstock a chain of hypogeal tubers about J in. diam., 

 with thick vermiform roots; leafin^ stem 4-5 in., sheathed; 

 1. 2-3, sessile, 8-12 in., oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, base 

 narrowed, sheathing, bright green, shining, 3-5-ribbed 

 beneath; ped, from the base of a tuber, often distant from 

 the 1., 16-20 in. high, stout, with a few herbaceous tubular 

 sheaths; raceme 3-5 in., sharply decurved in flower, erect 

 in fr , rather closely io-12-fld. ; bracts lanceolate, membra- 

 nous, shorter than the ov. ; fl. subsessile, sep. and pet. h in. long, 

 linear-oblong, acute or obtuse; lip superior, subpanduriform, 

 tip retuse, disk concave, with a broad ridge ending in a yellow 

 warted callus; fr. i^-ii in., fusiform, pendulous from a 

 short decurved pedicel. 



Moist region, Central province. Fl. June ; white, the lip suffused with 

 yellow and pink. 



Also in Peninsular India and Burma. 



A specimen that flowered in the Peradeniya Gardens agrees better 

 with Roxburgh's fig. 2, G. purpureian i^Limo dorian)^ t. 40, than with his 

 t. 39 L. recurviini (= G. dilatatum). — J. D. H. 



G. purpureu7n^ Br., a closely allied species, is given for Ceylon in 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 16, but I do not know on what authority. It is probably 

 only dilatatum. 



G. fiicatum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1687 (1834) is said to have been 

 sent from Ceylon by Mr. Watson in 1832, and, in Fol. Orch. Geod. 2, 

 Lindley further quotes for it 'Walker in Herb. Hooker.' Thwaites never 

 met with it, nor are any specimens now known ; it seems from the figure 

 to be merely a small state of G. purpureum. — Trzmen. 



It is impossible from dried specimens to distinguish G. dilatatum^ 

 purpureu7n, and fucatum. They are possibly all forms of one species. — 

 J. D. H. 



22. CVBIBIDZUM, Swartz. 



Epiphytes, pseudobulb o ; roots vermiform ; stem very short, 

 densely clothed with leaf-sheaths; 1. long, linear, coriaceous, 

 jointed on their sheaths; ped. from the axils of the leaf, loosely 

 sheathed at the base, naked above, pendulous; fl. race- 

 mose, large, bracts coriaceous; sep. and pet. narrow, widely 

 spreading; lip small, sessile on the base of the column, and 

 embracing it by its side lobes, base saccate, mid lobe recurved, 

 disk lamellate or ridged; column long, foot o; anth. i- or 

 imperfectly 2-celled, pollinia 2, or 4, subglobose, waxy, sessile 

 on a ^--lunar gland. — Sp. about 30; 15 in Fl. B. Ind. 



L. loriform, tip 2-lobed i. C. BICOLOR. 



L. ensiform, tip acute 2. C. ensifolium. 



I. C. blcolor, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 164 (1833). 

 C. aloefoliuni, Moon, Cat. 60 (non Sw.). Thw. Enum. 308. C. P. 3379. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 1 1. Wight, Ic. tt. 1687-8, C. aloifolimn (not good). Bot. 

 Mag. t. 387, C. aloides. 



