14 CXLVIII. ORCHIDE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Cymbidium. 



ovary, sepals and petals lanceolate acute green streaked with red, lip 

 glabrous white or yellowish spotted with brown or red. Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 

 112; Lindl. Gen. $ Sp. Orchid. 162; Bot. Eeg. t. 1976 (var. estriata) ; 

 Sot. Mag. t. 1751. C. sinense, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 30 (? Willd.}. 

 Epidendrum ensifolium, Linn. Sp. PI. 90; Smith Spicileg. Bot. 22, t. 24; 

 ? Bot. Repos. t. 344. Limodorum ensatum, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 29 ; Kceinpf. Ic. 

 t. 3. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; in the Terai. KHASIA HILLS, alt. 2-4000 ft., J. D. U. 

 # T. T., &c. CEYLON; in the Central Province, Thwaites. DISTRIB. Chiua, 

 Japan. 



The Khasia plant agrees very well with Kcempfer's figure, which alone repre- 

 sents the leaves as narrowed into a long petiole. In the Bot. Repos. the leaves are 

 only a span long and quite sessile. The Bot. Mag. represents a very small plant with 

 spotted lip. The Ceylon ensifolium has broader inflated lanceolate bracts. The 

 Sikkini specimen has sessile leaves, many flowers, and a white lip with pale brown 

 bars along the margin of the rnidlobe (much as in the Bot. lleg. figure) and no spots. 

 I doubt 0. sinense differing from ensifolium. Lindley would combine them. 



DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



C. ASSAMICUM, Linden Cat. 1863 (name only}, ex III. Hortic. xxviii. (1881) 95. 



C. CARNOSUM, Griff". Notul. iii. 339, is probably a Eulophia. 



C. CHLOEANTHUM, Lindl. in Bot. Eeg. 1843, Misc. 68 ; in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 iii. 29; Sot. Mag. t. 4907, is C. variciferum, Eeichb.f. in Sonpland. 1854, 91, an 

 Australian species. 



C. IRIDIOIDES, Don Prodr. 36, from Nepal, Wallich y doubtfully referred by 

 Lindley to C. gigunteum, is probably a Cwlogyne. 



CIMBID. sp., Griff. Notul. iii. 343 ; Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 319, is Tainia latifolia. 

 The reference is omitted at vol. v. p. 820. 



41. CYFERORCHIS, Blume. 



Habit, foliage and inflorescence of Cymbidium, but racemes dense-fld., 

 perianth segments narrow and connivent below the middle or higher, lip 

 nearly straight, erect, epichile small and very much shorter than the 

 elongate hypochile, and pollinia usually pyriform on a short subquadrate 

 gland. Species 3, all Indian. 



Except by the narrow lip, long hypochile, and small usually orbicular epichile (or 

 midlobe), it is not easy to separate this genus from Cymbidium, for the pollinia vary 

 much in form in both genera, and Gyp. Mastersii resembles very much Cymb. 

 eburneum. 



1. C. eleg"anSj Blume Humph, iv. t. 47 ; Orchid. Archip. Ind. 93, 

 t. 48 C ; raceme elongate, flowers 1-1| in. long straw-cold, or white, lip 

 sparsely hairy towards the base, central ridges terminating below in 2 long 

 pubescent calli, capsule 1 in. Bot. Mag. t. 7007. Cymbidium elegans, Lindl. 

 in Wall. Gat. 7354 ; Gen. $ Sp. Orchid. 163 ; Sert. Orchid, t. 14; in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. iii. 28 ; Eeichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1875, i. 429. C. densiflorum, 

 Griff. Notul. iii. 337 (the Myrung plant only). 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 4-7000 ft., from Nepal to Bhotan. KHASIA MTS. 

 and MUNNIPORE, alt. 4-6000 ft. 



Leaves li-2 ft. by |-1 in. Scape 6-18 in., curved, densely clothed with imbri- 

 cating compressed lanceolate acuminate sheaths 2-5 in. long; raceme pendulous, 

 4-8 in. long ; rachis slender ; flowers densely imbricate, inodorous ; bracts small, 

 membranous, acute ; sepals and petals linear-oblong, acute, tips concave ; lip as lone^ 

 as the petals, very slightly recurved ; hypochile narrowly cuneate, side lobes spread- 

 ing, broadly oblong, obtuse, nearly as long as the suborbicular or obcordate undulate 

 midlobe; column very slender, base hairy in front. Capsule turgidly ellipsoid. 



