CYMBIDIUM. ] OECEIDACEM. 203 



ll.GEDORUM. Jackson; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi., 16. 



Terrestrial herbs with underground subglobose rhizomes. Leaves 

 elliptic, plicate, their sheaths forming a pseudostem. Flowers 

 rather crowded, narrow, forming a decurved corymbose raceme on a 

 stout sheathed scape arising from the base of the pseudostem. 

 Sepals erect, equal, oblong, subacute. Petals as long as the sepals 

 but broader and blunt. Lip sessile on the base of the column ; 

 side-lobes suppressed ; terminal lobe broad, rounded, bifid or 

 emarginate ; disk with a forked basal callus. Column less than 

 half the length of the lip. Anther broad, 2-celled ; pollinia 2, 

 broadly ovoid, attached by a slender tapering caudicle to a small 

 orbicular gland. Species about 9 or 10 in India, Malaya and 

 Australia. 



G. dllatatum, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew ed. 2, v, 207 , Prain. 

 Beng. PL 1017 ; Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 695. G. purpureum, R. 

 Br. I.e. F. B. I. vi, 16 (in part)-K. and P. in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. 

 Cole, viii, 181, L 245 ; Duthie id. ix, part 2, 130. Limodorum 

 recurvum, Roxb. FL Ind. Hi, 469. 



Tuber globose, apiculate, 1} in. in diam. Pseudo-stem 3-6 in. long. 

 Leaves 6-20 in. long, broadly elliptic, tapering at the base to along 

 sheath. Flowers about \ in. long, pale-purple or rose-coloured, in 

 racemes which are short corymbose and drooping when in flower, but 

 elongate and erect in fruit; floral bract lanceolate, acute, exceeding 

 the pedicelled ovary. Sepals f in. long, oblong, acute, S^nerved, 

 Petals as long as the sepals, oblong, obtuse. Lip pale-purple with 

 darker markings, f in. long, ventricose at the base, and much thick- 

 ened, subpandurate ; side-lobes none ; mid-lobe rounded, 2-fid. or 

 emarginate ; disk with a channelled ridge ending in raised yellow 

 calli. Pollinia with elongate pits on their posterior surface. 



Dehra Dun (Mackinnon). Flowers during June and July. DISTRIB.: 

 Eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan; also in Assam, Bengal, 

 Chota Nagpur, Burma, Malay Pen., Andaman Islands, extending to 

 W. and S. India and Ceylon. 



12. CYMBIDIUM, Swartz ; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 8. 



Epiphytes with a short stout pseudstem, rarely terrestrial or 

 with an elongated leafy stem. Leaves coriaceous, usually long and 



