_ CymBIpium. | ORCHIDACE. . 203 
11.GEDORUM, Jackson ; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi., 16. - 
Terrestrial herbs with underground subglobose rhizomes. Leaves 
elliptic, plicate, their sheaths forming a pseudostem. Flowers 
rather crowded, narrow, forming a decurved corymbose raceme ona 
stout sheathed scape arising fromthe base of the pseudostem. 
Sepals erect, equal, oblong, subacute. Petals as long as the sepals 
but broader and blunt. Lip sessile on the base of the column ; 
side-lobes suppressed ; terminal lobe broad, rounded, bifid or 
emarginate ; disk with a forked basal callus. Column less than 
half the length of the lip. Anther broad, 2-celled ; pollinia 2, 
broadly ovoid, attached by a slender tapering caudicle to a small. 
orbicular gland.—Species about 9 or 10 in India, Malaya and 
Australia. 
G. dilatatum, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew ed. 2, v, 207 ; Prain. 
Beng. Pl. 1017 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ti, 695. G. purpureum, R. 
Br. lic. F. B. I. vi, 16 (in part)-K. and P. in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. 
Cale. viii, 181, t. 245; Duthie id. ix, part 2, 130. Limodorum 
recurvum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 469. ' 
Tuber globose, apiculate, 1} in. indiam. Pseudo-stem 3-6 in. long. 
Leaves 6-20 in. long, broadly elliptic, tapering at the base to alon g 
sheath. Flowers about $ in. long, pale-purple or rose-coloured, in 
racemes which are short corymbose and drooping when in flower, but 
elongate and erect in fruit; floral bract lanceolate, acute, exceeding 
the pedicelled ovary. Sepals 3 in. long, oblong, acute, 3-nerved, 
Petals as long as the sepals, oblong, obtuse. Lip pale-purple with 
darker markings, ® in. long, ventricose at the base, and much. thick- 
ened, subpandurate; side-lobes none; mid-lobe rounded, 2-fid. or 
emarginate; disk with a channelled ridge ending in raised yellow 
calli. Pollinia with elongate pits on their posterior surface. 
Dehra Dun (Mackinnon). Flowers during June and July. Drsrrip.: 
‘Eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan; also in Assam, Bengal, 
Chota Nagpur, Burma, Malay Pen., Andaman Islands, extending to 
W. and S. India and Ceylon. 
12. CYMBIDIUM, Swartz; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 8. 
Epiphytes with a short stout pseudstem, rarely terrestrial or 
with an elongated leafy stem. Leaves coriaceous, usually long and 
