Gyiwmrchis.] CXLVIIJ. ORCHIDE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 15 



In Griffith's Herb, this is named C. syringodorum, doubtless through a misplace- 

 ment of labels (see C. eburneum, p. 12). In Herb. Calcutt. there are drawings of 3 

 forms apparently of this : 1. raceme laxer-flowered, flowers larger nearly white 

 flushed with pale pink, lip not represented; 2, leaves 12-18 in., scape stout, 

 sheaths distant, 2 in. long, and raceme inclined, flowers few, secund, drooping, 

 pale yellow-green, lip yellow, no ridges shown; 3, a smaller plant, leaves 9 in., 

 scape 7 in., densely clothed with imbricating sheaths 3 in. long ; raceme suberect, 

 secuiid, 5-fld. ; flowers yellowish, If in. long : this last is named Cymbid. elegans, 

 var. lutescens. 



2. C. Mastersiij Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 318 ; raceme short, 

 flowers 2 in. long white, lip quite glabrous purple spotted, central ridge 

 evanescent below, column glabrous, capsule 2 in. long. Cymbidium Mas- 

 tersii, Griff, mss. ex, Lindl. in Sot. Beg. 1845, t. 50 ; in Gard. Chron. 1845, 

 643 ; Paxt. Fl. Gard. t. 78 ; Floral Mag. N. S. t. 391 ; Jard. Fleur. t. 289 ; 

 Heichenbachia, t. 66. C. micromeron, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 29 

 (excl. lip}. ? C. affine, Griff. Notul. iii. 336 ; Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 291, f. 3 ; 

 Lindl. I. c. 28. 



ASSAM, Mann. KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-5000 ft., Griffith, &c. 



Habit and foliage of C. elegans, but raceme very short, decurved at the top, 

 flowers larger, always white with a little red on the lip and smelling of almonds, lip 

 broader, without the basal calli and quite glabrous ; column stouter aud pollinia 

 broader; capsule very much larger. It is not easy in the case of indifferent 

 dried specimens to distinguish this from Ct/mbid. eburneum except by the smaller 

 flower. Lindley's Cymbid. micromeron consists of a flowering and fruiting speci- 

 men of this, together with the loose lip and column of a ' Ccelogy ne, from which 

 the specific character is drawn. The same author, referring to Griffith's descrip- 

 tion of C. affine (from Churra), to that of C. densiflorum from Myruug, and of 

 another species from Surureem (all in the Khasia Mts.), observes, " It is impos- 

 sible to reconcile the statements made for Griffith by his editor, without 

 assuming that some confusion has taken place." To this confusion Lindley has 

 added by transferring the name affine, Griff., from the Churra to the Surureem 

 plant. Of the three the only one certainly recognizable by the description is 

 C. densiflorum, which is certainly Cyperorchis elegans (I have gathered it at 

 Myrung). C. affine and the unnamed one, having white flowers, are both probably 

 C. Mastersii, a name which Griffith's affine would have superseded, had he really 

 given it ; but on referring to his mss. preserved at Kew, 1 find no such name, 

 Griffith's description being headed "Ccelog. affine," meaning simply that it is a 

 plant allied to Coelogyne, aud the Churra plant is so ticketed by himself in 

 both his own herbarium (at Kew) and in Lindley's, to whom he sent a specimen. 

 No doubt the error was the editor's, who replaced Calog. by Cymbidium. The name 

 of Mastersii is an mss. one of Griffith's given to cultivated specimens which he sent 

 from the Calcutta Gardens to the Royal Horticultural Society. 



C. affine, Warner Orchid. Alb. t. 110 ; Floral Mag. N. S.'t. 346, is certainly not 

 the plant described and figured under that name by Griffith ; it has widely spreading 

 sepals and petals, and the lip of a true Cymbidium. 



3. C> cochleare, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 318; raceme 

 elongate, sepals and petals very narrow, flowers 2 in. long, greenish brown, 

 lip glabrous, median ridge strong 2-fid or spathulate at the tip vanishing 

 downwards, column very slender glabrous, pollen pyriform, capsule 1| in. 

 long. Cymbidium cochleare, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 28. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 4-6000 ft., J. D. H., &c. KHASIA HILLS, alt. 5-6000 ft., 

 Clarke ; at Myrung, Griffith. Tezpore in ASSAM, Mann. 



Leaves 2-3 ft. by |-^ in. Scape 12-18 in., very slender ; sheaths 3-4 in., lax ; 

 sepals and revolute petals brownish green ; lip yellow speckled with red, midlobe 

 suborbicular, golden-yellow. 



