‘ SUPPLEMENT. 
CYCLOSANTHES. A synonym of Cyclanthus 
(which see). 
CYMBIDIUM. To the species and varieties described 
on pp. 420-1, Vol. I., the following should now be added: 
C. eburneum Philbrickianum (Philbrick’s). l. white; sepals 
and petals narrow; side lobes of the lip well apart from the 
narrower middle lobe; callus narrow, with a most obscure mid- 
keel. 18386. Habit that of C. Parishii. 
C. elegans (elegant). A synonym of Cyperorchis elegans. 
C. ensifolium (sword-leaved). _/l. greenish-yellow, very tragrant ; 
sepals and petals marked with some reddish-brown, narrow 
lines; lip dotted, ovate, somewhat recurved ; scape terete, few- 
flowered. Late summer. J. ensiform, nerved, China and Japan. 
(B. M. 1751.) 
C. e. estriatum (not striated). ., segments very narrow ; sepals 
green, with a few red lines; petals white, with some purple 
lines; lip white, the middle lacinia yellow, with a few brown 
spots; column white, with purple blotches in front. i. more 
than Ift. long, jin. broad, with dark spots. Assam, 1887. 
C, Huttoni (Hutton’s). This is now regarded as synonymous 
with Grammangis Huttoni. 
Cc. Mastersii (Dr. Masters’). 
Cyperorchis. 
CYNORCHIS (from kyon, kynos, a dog, and Orchis ; 
a name altered by Lindley from the Cynosorchis of 
Thouars). Syn. Cynosorchis. Orp. Orchidee. A genus 
embracing about sixteen species of stove, terrestrial 
Orchids, with the habit of Habenaria rotundifolia, 
natives of the Mascarene Islands and tropical Africa. 
Flowers mediocre or rather small, shortly pedicellate ; 
sepals sub-equal, concave, at length spreading; petals 
similar or smaller; lip continuous with the column, 
spreading, as long as the sepals, three to five-cleft, 
produced in a spur; column very short; raceme short 
or rarely elongated, rather loose. Only two species call 
for description. For culture, see Bletia, on pp. 115-6, 
Vol. I. 
C. elegans (elegant). l. whitish, with a rosy tinge, disposed in 
three to seven-flowered racemes; odd sepal gibbous, convex, 
abrupt over the triangular, acute apex; side sepals ligulate, 
acute or blunt-acute, longer than the odd sepal; lip with a small 
angle on each side at the base, the lamina spotted or lined deep 
purple. /. cuneate-oblong-lanceolate, acute, 2in. long by tin. 
wide, light green, striped and barred mauve-purple. Mada- 
gascar. 
C. Lowiana (Low’s). /l., sepals and petals whitish-green ; lateral 
sepals oblong, obtuse; odd sepal convex-oblong, blunt-acute, 
shorter than the lateral ones; petals ligulate, acute; lip lilac, 
three-cleft, the lateral lacinie linear, extrorse, the mid-lacinia 
deeply two-cleft, with a deep purple, obcordate spot at base. 
1. one or two, about Yin. long, jin. wide, dark green. Mada- 
gascar. 
CYNOSORCHIS. A synonym of Cynorchis (which 
see). 
CYPERORCHIS (from Cypervs and Orchis ; in allu- 
sion to the resemblance to Cyperus, and the affinity to 
Orchis). Orv. Orchidee. A small genus (two or three 
species) of stove, epiphytal Orchids, natives of the Hast 
Indies and the Malayan Archipelago, formerly included 
under Cymbidium. Flowers showy; sepals and petals 
sub-equal, free, erect or somewhat spreading ; lip sessile 
at the base of the column, erect, narrow, concave, the 
lateral lobes embracing the column, the middle one short, 
broad, spreading; column rather long, erect, semi-terete ; 
pollen masses two; raceme many-flowered; scape erect. 
Leaves long, narrow, scarcely dilated at base. Stem 
short, leafy, hardened or slightly thickened at base. For 
culture, see Cymbidium, on p. 420, Vol. I. 
Cc. elegans (elegant). 7. pale yellow, remaining half-closed, 
cylindrical; lip spotted blood-red inside; racemes nodding, 
many-flowered. Autumn. Nepaul, 1840. Syn. Cymbidium 
elegans (L. S. O. 14). 
Cc. Mastersii (Dr. Masters’). The correct name of the plant 
oSe BO on p. 421, Vol. I., as Cymbidium Mastersti. (B. R. 
Cc. M. album (white). 
Winter. India. 
CYPRIPEDIUM. This genus embraces about sixty 
species, natives of Hurope, temperate and tropical Asia, 
North America, and Mexico. To those described on 
This species is now removed to 
jl. pure white, deliciously fragrant. 
Cypripedium—continued. 
pp. 423-7, Vol. I., the following should now be added. 
Except where otherwise indicated, they require stove 
treatment. 
Cc. almum (pure). /., dorsal sepal white, with broad, radiating, 
purple nerves, and some short, green ones, the lateral ones 
connate in a partially purple body; petals brown and green, 
with blackish calli; lip very dark, as in C. barbatum (between 
weer and C. Lawrenceanum this is supposed to be a hybrid). 
C. amandum (lovely). . green, spotted sepia-black, white 
at top and on the outside margins, oblong, acute, the lower 
ones green; petals ochre in the middle, brick-red at the 
sides, descendent, ligulate; lip light yellow, brown around the 
mouth, rather slender, with curved horns at each side of the 
mouth. J. strap-shaped, 1}ft. long, liin. wide, sharply keeled 
at back, dark green, with blackish-mauve freckles at the base 
of the posterior side. 1887. A hybrid between C. insigne and 
C. venustum. 
Cc. Amesianum (fF. L. Ames’). /l., dorsal sepal white, veined and 
netted green, stained soft brown towards the base, ovate ; petals 
as in C. villosum, the upper half chestnut-brown, the lower much 
paler; lip brown, tinged green and flesh-colour in front, large, 
resembling that of C. villoswm. J. Tin. to Yin. long, 14sin. broad, 
slightly spotted purple beneath. 1887. A hybrid between C. 
villosum and C. venustum. (W. O. A. 340.) 
Cc. apiculatum (apiculate). /l. shining inside; dorsal sepal 
reddish-brown, veined blackish-purple, margined ochreous, the 
lower ones green, veined reddish-brown ; petals brownish-purple, 
the lower half yellowish and spotted purplish-black ; lip 
ereenish-ochre, spotted brown, resembling that of C. Boxallii 
in form. 1886. A garden hybrid between C. barbatum and 
C. Boxallii. 
C. Arthurianum (Arthur's). /l., dorsal sepal pale green, tipped 
with white, and ornamented with clear, dark pencillings. _ 1882. 
june hybrid between C. insigne and C. Fairieanwm. (L. iii. 
) 
C. Ashburtoniz expansum (expanded). /., upper sepal 
broad, having a large, ivory-white, crescent-like zone from the 
top along the margin to the middle, where it has numerous 
brownish-black nerves covered with distant, dark blotches ona 
green groaund-colour; petals (and leaves) broader than in the 
type. 1885. 
Cc. barbatum Warnerianum (Warner’s). /jl., dorsal sepal 
white, striped green towards the base, with a transverse band 
of vinous-purple, large; petals green-striped above, white 
towards the base, the rest purple, tipped white; lip deep 
brownish-purple. March to May. J. distinctly tessellated. India.- 
(W. 8S. O. iii. 11.) 
C. Barteti (Bartet’s). (/., dorsal sepal green, flushed rose, 
nerved blackish-purple, and bordered white, broad; petals 
yellowish, striped reddish-brown, conspicuously veined, shining, 
narrow. 1886. This hybrid is much like C. Laforeadei, having 
been raised from the same capsule, but it is the better of the 
two. 
C. bellatulum (rather pretty). . white or whitish-yellow, 
spotted all over, and as much as llin. in circumference ; stami- 
node very long, oblong, tridentate at apex, beautifully spotted, 
almost free from hairs. 1. 10in. long, Sin. wide, beautifully 
marbled with light, hieroglyphic spots on the upper sur- 
face, the lower one being covered with innumerable brown 
dots. 1888. 
Cc. Berggrenianum (Berggren’s). jl., sepals light purple, with 
darker nerves, and with a few Indian-purple spots at base, the 
lower one lightest green ; petals dark purple, the base yellowish, 
with dark green spots; lip resembling that of C Dauthieri ; 
peduncle dark purple. J. ligulate, acute, light green, sparsely 
tessellated above. This plant is supposed to be a hybrid between 
C. Dauthieri and C. insiygne. 
C. Boxallii atrata (dark). /., dorsal sepal green, speckled 
blackish-brown ; lip and lateral petals reddish-purple irregularly 
mixed with light green, the upper margin white. 1887. (G. C. 
ser. iii., vol. i., p. 210.) 
C. caligare (shoe-like). _/l., median sepal whitish, nerved green ; 
lateral sepals narrow, whitish; petals ligulate, acute, ciliate, 
the under side white, veined green, and the upper side pur- 
plish-mauve, with white base; lip cinnamon-brown, the mouth 
bordered ochre ; peduncle reddish-green, with very short bairs. 
1. resembling those of C. venustwm (which is one of the parents of 
this hybrid, C. Dayanum being the other). 
C. callosum (hard). jl. very large, remaining some weeks in 
perfection ; dorsal sepal pure white, striped with dark chocolate- 
crimson, 24in. across ; petals and pouch soft rose or crimson ona 
greenish-white ground. Cochin China, 1887. Greenhouse. In 
growth this plant resembles a strong C. barbatum. (G. C. ser. iil., 
vol. i., p. 315; R. H. 1888, 252.) 
C. calophyllum (beautiful-leayed). l., dorsal sepal as in C. 
barbatum, but greener-nerved ; petals and lip asin C. venustwm, 
but the lip is browner than in that species. J, darkly tessellated. 
A garden hybrid between the species named, 
