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Cymbidium Hoosai Makino sp nov. 



Terrestrial. Pseiido-biilb not large, suhterranean or nearly so, ovoid 

 or ovoid-conical, slightly compressed, entirely, enclosed by the bases of 

 leaves, attaining about 2 cm. across ; scales stout, subulate, acuminate, 

 entire, equitant, thickly membranaceous, carinate dorsally, glabrous, green, 

 the superior one attaining about 13 cm. in length ; roots fibrous, thick, 

 terete, simple, whitish, 4-6 mm. across. Leaves tufted, 2-4 to a pseudo- 

 bulb, erect-patent or recurved, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate with a sharp 

 tip, gradually narrowed towards the base, canaliculated in front below, 

 dilated and embracing the pseudo-bulb with the very base, hardly or finely 

 scabi-ous, chartaceous-coriaceous but hard and thick towards the base, shining 

 and flat and deep green above, concolorous beneath, 25-50 cm. long, 15- 

 32cm. wide; midrib very slender, prominent beneath; lateral main veins 2 

 on each side, the inner one being stouter and somewhat prominent beneath 

 in living specimens ; veinlets inconspicuous. Scape attaining about 60 cm. 

 in height including the raceme, exceeding the leaves, lateral, erect from 

 the base of the pseudo-bulb, slender, terete, purple or greenish ; scales 

 membranaceous, but more or less thickish in the inferior ones, the upper 

 ones very remotely placed, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, closely many-nerved, 

 shortly tubular below, the inferior ones subulate and gradually decreasing in size 

 and gradually close-placed below. Kaceme shorter than the peduncle,7-20cm. 

 long, laxly and secundly 2-6-flowered ; rachis terete, subflexuous, glabrous, 

 smooth, purple or viridescent ; bracts shorter than the ovary, subulate or 

 subulate-lanceolate, acuminate, entire, membranaceous, 5-14 mm. long, 3-7- 

 nerved, purple or viridescent. Flowers 3^-6 cm. across, slightly odoriferous 

 or not. Perianth greenish-purple, with deeper purple nervous lines. Outer 

 perianth patent and then reflexed, equal in size, oblanceolate-linear, entire, 

 obtuse or acutish with a minute cuspidate point, 2i-3^ cm. long, 5-6^ mm. 

 broad, the upper one 5-nerved, the lateral ones 6-nerved and scarcely carinate 

 dorsally. Inner perianth -leaves horizontal, closely placed to one another, 

 shorter than the outer ones, lanceolate, acute or acutish, entire, 9-nerved, 

 2-2|cm. long, 6-9 mm. wide. Labellum horizontal, shorter than the 

 perianth, sessile, rounded at the base, veiy scarcely trilobed, the side-lobes 

 erect, entire and rounded- edged, purple towards the margin and irregularly 

 barred below ; mid-lobe nmch reflexed, oblong-ovate, rounded-obtuse, entire 

 and more or less crispate, thicker towards the centre, yellowish, or very light 

 green and then yellowish, transversely and irregularly blotched with purple, 

 10-16 mm. long, 9-11^ mm. broad ; disk thick, with thick glabrous yellowish 

 or white and then yellowish lamell;\3 between the side lobes, forming a 



