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Gen. Sf Sj). Orchid. 41 ; Fol. Orchid. 1; pseudobulbs long narrow, leaves 

 large petioled elliptic-lanceolate, raceme nodding, nowers large distichous 

 white, sepals and petals narrow counivent below, base of narrow lip 

 bisaccate. Paxt. Mag. vi. t. 73 ; Wai p. Ann. vi. 222. C. trisaccata, Grijf. 

 It in. Notes 72 ; Walp. L c. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 4-5000 ft., eastwards, and KHASIA MT3., 

 common. 



Pseudobidbs 3-6 in., narrowly flask-shaped. Leaves 6-14 in. Scape short, 

 closely clothed with broad obtuse sheaths ; raceme 4-8 in. ; bracts 1-1 in., cymbi- 

 form, obtuse ; sepals linear-oblong, acute, keeled ; base saccate ; petals narrower ; 

 side lobes of lip small toothed, midlobe 2 -cleft rounded erose, disk yellowish with 



2 waved ridges. Capsule 1-| in., fusiform, 6-winged. 



2. C. flaccida, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 1961 ; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 39; 

 in Sot. Reg. 1841, t. 31 ; Fol. Orchid. 2 ; pseudobulbs elongate, leaves 

 long-petioled, sepals f in. linear- oblong acute, petals narrower acuminate, 

 side lobes of lip large rounded, midlobe small broadly ovate, disk with 



3 yellow flexuous ridges. Sot. Mag. t. 3318 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 222. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Nepal, Wallich, eastwards. TENASSERIM ; on 

 rocks of Jook Long, Ic. Parish. 



Pseudobulbs 2-6 in., sheaths large, coriaceous, purple-brown. Leaves 6-12 in., 

 linear-lanceolate, acuminate ; petiole 1-3 in. Scape with short broad obtuse basal 

 sheaths; raceme 4-5 in., pendulous ; bracts ^-f in., caducous; flowers |-f in diam., 

 white (said to smell offensively), side lobes of lip brown. Capside 2-i in., clavate, 

 broadly winged. 



3. C. testacea, Lindl. in .Pot. Reg. 1842, Misc. 38; Fol. Orchid. 2; 

 pseudobulbs narrow ovoid, leaves petioled, sepals lanceolate subacute and 

 rather narrower petals pale brown, side lobes of lip narrow dark brown 

 margined with white, midlobe broad rounded crenate, disk with 4 spinulose 

 ridges. Hot. Mag. t. 4785 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 223. 



SINGAPORE, Hort. Loddiges. 



Pseudobulbs 3-5 in., obtusely angled ; sheaths narrow. Leaves 6-8 in., 

 lanceolate, 3-5-nerved. Scape sheathed up to the flowers j raceme mauy-fld., 

 pendulous j bracts -} in., cymbiforni, acute, persistent; flowers 1-| in. diam. ; column 

 white, anther brown. 



4. C. cr 1st at a, Lindl. Coll. Sot. t. 32 ; in Sot. Reg. 1841, t. 57 ; Fol. 

 Orchid. 8 ; pseudobulbs oblong, leaves sessile lanceolate, raceme few-fld., 

 sepals and petals subequal broad obtuse white, side lobes of lip large 

 rounded with yellow fimbriate lamella) between them, midlobe suborbicular 

 with 2 crenulate broad yellow plates. Walp. Ann. vi. 229 ; Paxt. Fl. Gar a. 

 iii. 171, f. 312 ; Fl. dcs Serres, t. 1807 ; Pescatoria i. t. 25 ; Warner Sel. 

 Orchid, t. 35; Orchid. Alb. t. 54; Jennings Orchid, t. 7; Cartoijl. viii. 

 t. 245; Deutsche G-artenz. 1866, t. 341. Cymbidium speciocissimum, Don 

 Prodr. 35. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 5-7000 ft., from Kumaon eastwards. SYLHET, 

 fid. \Vullich. 



Pstudobulbs 2-3 in., distant. Leaves 6-12 in. Scape with pendulous raceme 

 6-12 in., 3 10-fld. j bracts 1^-2 i*., oblong, persistent; flowers very large; sepals 

 1^-2 in., undulate. Capsule 1^2 in., fusiform, angles obtuse. There are many 

 described varieties with very slight characters, as var. /wloleitca, R. f. in Garti. 

 Chron, 1881, i. 562, which has white crests on the lip ; var. Leinoniana, Orchidoph. 188, 

 212, with lemon-yellow on the lip; another var. Litidcnia iv. t. 173, and ma.n-ma, 

 Keichb. f. in Gard. Chrou. 1886, i. 398, and in Reichenbachia i. 13, t. 8, which diflers 

 only in its larger size. 



