Cymbidium.~\ CXLVIII. ORCHIDE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 9 



concave, side lobes erect, midlobe recurved ; disk with -usually 2 pubes- 

 cent median ridges. Column long, foot ; anther 1- or imperfectly 

 2-celled ; pollinia 2 deeply grooved or 4, subglobose or pyramidal, sessile on 

 the broad strap or gland. Species about 30, tropical and subtropical, on 

 the Mountains of Asia, with a few African and Australian. 



* Leaves rudimentary or at flowering time. 



1. C. macrorhizon, Lindl. Gen.fy Sp. Orchid. 162; terrestrial, root- 

 stock creeping branched, bracts narrow membranous. 



N.W. INDIA, Roy le, Falconer. KHASIA HILLS, alt. 5-6000 ft., Lobb, &c. ; 

 NAGA HILLS (Herb. Calcutt.). 



Rootstock as thick as a goose-quill, branched. Scape very short, with the raceme 

 6-9 in., ascending, 6-8- tid. ; basal sheaths short, or elongating to 2 in. and narrowly 

 subfoliaceous ; bracts |-^ in., narrow, membranous ; pedicel with ovary 1 in. ; flower 

 Ig-lf in. broad, sepals linear-lanceolate, acuminate, and rather broader petals 

 white or pale yellowish with pink stria? ; lip white spotted with crimson, side lobes 

 narrow, midlobe ovate obtuse, disk with 2 thick ridges between the side lobes; 

 anther papillose ; pollinia 4, subhemispheric. A remarkable species, a parasite 

 according to Clarke. Lindley describes the rootstock as jointed, and the ridges of 

 the lip as arcuate. 



2. C. sikkimense, Hook. f. ; epiphytic, bracts minute triangular- 

 ovate. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; Lachen Valley, alt. 6000 ft., J. D. H. 



EootstocTc very stout. Scape with many obtuse basal sheaths 2-3 in. long, those 

 higher up 1 in. long ; raceme 4-8 in., more or less decurved, rather stout, 20-30-fld. ; 

 bracts A in. ; pedicel with ovary |-| in. ; dorsal sepal linear-oblong, obtuse ; 

 lateral lanceolate, acute, subfalcate ; petals elliptic, acute j lip as broad as long, 

 rhombic-ovate, side lobes obscure rounded, narrowed into the very short ovate mid- 

 lobe, disk without ridges but with 2 obscure rounded calli. A very distinct 

 species, overlooked by Lindley when studying my Sikkim Orchids, and mixed up with 

 C. aloifolium. 



** Leaves elliptic-lanceolate. 



3. C. lancifolium, Hook Exot. FL t. 51 ; leaves long-petioled 

 plicate, scape shorter than the leaves few-fld., bracts lanceolate shorter 

 than the ovary, flowers long-pedicelled, disk of glabrous lip with two 

 median lamellae between the side lobes. Lindl. Gen. <fy Sp. Orchid. 164 ; in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 30 ; Wall. Cat. 7351 ; Lodd. Sot. Cab. t. 927. C. Gibsoni 

 Paxton FL Gard. iii. 618, fig. 301 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 623. C. javanicum, Blume 

 Bijdr. 380 ; Lindl. 1. c. 170. Griff. Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 300, fig. 1. 



SUBTEOPICAL HIMALAYA; from Nepal to Mishmi. KHASIA HILLS, alt. 

 4-6000 ft., Griffith, &c. PEE AE, alt. 2-4000 ft, Scortechini, &c. DISTEIB. Java, 

 China, Japan. 



Stem 2-6 in. , fleshy, fusiform ; sheaths ovate-lanceolate, acuminate ; roots very 

 long, thick and spongy. Leaves 6-10 in., petiole slender, sometimes as long. Scape 

 nodding, 6-8-fld. ; flowers l|-2 in. diam. ; .sepals white, yellowish or greenish, 

 lanceolate, acuminate ; petals rather broader, white with a pink midrib ; lip white 

 spotted with red-purple, side lobes narrow, midlobe ovate obtuse. 



4. C. tigrinum, Parish in Sot. Mag. t. 5457 ; leaves short-petioled 

 very coriaceous, scape with raceme longer than the leaves few-fld., bracts 

 lanceolate shorter than the ovary, flower long-pedicelled, lip with 2 glabrous 

 ridges on the disk between the side lobes. 



