CYMBIDIUM. 34] 
medium versus constrictum, limbo cordato, subacuto basi- 
ventricosa. Columna declinata, semiteres, anthera obsolete 2- 
locularibus valvis dorsalibus 2, articulatis. Pollinia 2, integra, 
antice foveolata caudicula lata ovata. Glandula lata, obtusa 
Pet. sepal. fusco-viridia maculis rubris. Labellum vitidis: 
cens, maculis confertissimis elevatum, columna viridescens 
maculis rubris. 
It has the same sort of inflorescence as Dendrob. angula- 
tum ! although the limb of the leaf is cylindrical, and arti- 
culate; yet the petiole entirely embraces each internode of the 
stem, the inflorescence bursts out at the lower part of the 
sheath and is strictly axillary. 
Has. Mergue : September, 1834. Mergue Herb. 267. 
6. Cymbidium giganteum. 
Epiphytica in arborib. Pseudo-bulbis ovatis, 3-uncialibus 
longitudine basi vestiguis foliorum vestitis, czterum basibus 
dilatatis foliorum omnino tectis. Fol. disticha, petiolis basi 
quam maxime dilatatis et caule pseudo-bulbosa amplectenti- 
bus czeterum 15 uncialibus concavis, et subconvolutis linearis 
acuta et obsoleta, apice obliqua apices versus semitorta co- 
riacea, supra nitida venis distinctis sub 5, directione ascen- 
dente, patula vel nutantia. 
Racemus radicalis, patens recurvave? viridis lucido gla- 
berrime, ad exsertione cujusque pedicelli incrassata, bracteze 
basi late czeterum lanceolate meinbranacez pedicello arcte 
suffultiente. Pedicellis glabris subcylindraceis, ovaria glabra 
uitidaque paullo excedentis. 
Flores postici maximi, valde speciosi, diametro transverse 
3-unciali vel 25, verticale 14; odora Tulipe hortensis sed 
minus forte, secundi. 
Per: сопун, Sepala sabeonniventio æqualia po- 
] ongo l , antico lahellon e 
Color albidus, venis 8-10 rubro-castaneis, mutuo trabeculis 
concoloribus nexis. 
