1 80 OrchideCB. \Cymbidium. 



Stem short, very stout, clothed with broad, acuminate, 

 membranous sheaths that embrace the leaf-bases; 1, 2-3, 

 8-12 by |-i in., loriform, coriaceous, tip unequally obtusely 

 2-lobed, sheaths 2-3 in., very stout, strongly acutely ribbed, 

 green ; ped. short, clothed with imbricating, acute sheaths ; 

 raceme 12-18 in., pendulous, laxly many-fld., rhachis stout, 

 terete; bracts minute, ovate, pedicel with ov., |-i in.; sep. 

 I in., linear or oblong-linear, obtuse, reflexed ; pet. about 

 \ shorter, rather broader, erect, obtuse; lip about half as long 

 as the sep., base saccate, side lobes short, acute, mid lobe 

 small, nearly orbicular, revolute, with 2 calli at the base; 

 column incurved, thickened upwards, foot very short; anth. 

 hemispheric, pollinia 2, ovoid, sessile on a semilunar gland ; 

 fr. 2\ in., narrowly pyriform. 



Low country up to 3000 ft., on tree trunks ; very common. Fl. March, 

 April ; sep. and pet. cream-coloured, more or less stained with reddish- 

 purple down the middle, lip white with a purple blotch or veins and 

 purple wings, ridges yellow. 



Also in Southern India. 



One of our commonest orchids. The great tufts of long leathery leaves 

 and long pendulous racemes of flowers are very conspicuous, though 

 of little beauty. There is a specimen of it in Koenig's Herb. (Mus. 

 I'rit.) from Jafnapatnam, ticketed 'in truncis Borassorum.' IMoon gives 

 ' Wisaduli ' as the Sinhalese name for this, but this is an error (see 

 Ceniipeda, part iii. p. 42). 



2. C. ensifolium, Siu. in No7>. Act. Upsal. vi. 77 (1799), var. 

 haematodes, Trim. Syst. Cat. 89. [Plate XC] 



C. hamatodes., Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 162. Thw. Enum. 307. 

 C. P. 3694. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 13. 



Stem very short, clothed with ovate-lanceolate brown 

 sheaths; roots very many, vermiform, \ in. diam.; 1. many, all 

 radical, lowest short, membranous, conduplicate, upper 2-3 ft. 

 by \-\ in., erect, ensiform, acute, 3-5-veined beneath, margins 

 scaberulous ; ped. from the base of the stem, with the many- 

 tld. suberect raceme ii-2 ft., rhachis stout; bracts lanceolate, 

 \-\ in., green, pedicel with ov. \\ in.; .sep. \\ in. long, 

 oblong, subacute, or obtuse, pet. subsimilar; lip about half as 

 long as the sep., side lobes rounded, mid lobe as long as the 

 side lobes, broadly ovate or orbicular, revolute; anth. hemi- 

 spheric, pollinia 4, sessile in pairs on a semilunar gland, one of 

 each pair much smaller; fr. 2\ in., fusiform, bluntly trigonous. 



Montane zone m open places to 5500 ft.; rather common. Hantane; 

 Kondagula; Bogawantalawa, abundant. Fl. December, April; sweet- 

 scented, sep. and pet. dull citron yellow, veined with pink, lij) pale yellow, 

 stained and spotted with dark pink. 



In Sikkim, Khasia, China, and Japan. 



In Fl. Brit. Ind., Lindley's C.luonatoiks is referred to C. cyperifolium. 



