DESCRIPTIVE LIST. 22$ 



A large-growing species producing, during the winter, 

 brown and purple flowers on long spikes. A showy plant, 

 worth growing where there is room. 



Cymbidium Hookerianum. Himalaya Mountains. 



Bat. 2d Cen., 187. 



B. M., 5574. 



A species resembling the last described in growth, 

 bearing large, green, straw-color, yellow, and purple 

 flowers, on long upright spikes. This plant requires very 

 little heat. 



Cymbidium Huttoni. Java B. M., 5676. 



A rare Orchid. Flowers in long racemes, brown, spot- 

 ted with chocolate ; lip green, with chocolate stripes. 



A. Cymbidium Mastersii. India. Epiphyte. 



B. R., 31, 50. 



Pax. Fl. G., 78. 



Lem. Jard., 289. 



Flowers white with yellow centre in winter. This is a 

 very beautiful free-blooming species, in growth much like 

 Cymbidium eburneum ; the flowers are of long duration 

 and have a delicious almond-like fragrance. 



B. Cymbidium pendulum. Sylhet. Epiphyte. 



B. R., 26, 25 ; 30, 24. 



A large-growing plant, producing spikes, one or two 

 feet long, of brown flowers, with a red lip striped with 

 white ; in July and August. 



A. Cymbidium atropurpureum. Java . . B. M., 5710. 

 Flowers on spikes nearly three feet long ; sepals and 

 petals dark purple, margined at the tip with green ; lip 

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