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bases of the lanceolate plaited leaves, and having drooping 

 racemes of flowers proceeding from amongst the upper leaves, 

 the individual blossoms large and sweetly scented, with broadish 

 sepals and petals which are greenish yellow, the lip white, 

 the base presenting a blackish callosity where its short claw 

 connects it with the column. This species sometimes sports 

 to C. Egertonianum. It blooms in June, July, or August, 

 lasting fresh about three weeks. — Guatemala. 



Fig. — Batem, Orch. Mex, et Guat., t. 5 ; Bot. Jfag.,tA05i (var.) ; Mannd, 

 Bot., ii. t. 54. 



CymBIDIUM, Swartz. 



( Tribe Vandese, subtribe Cymbidiese.) 



Of the numerous species of this genus, but few are ad- 

 missible into a choice selection of Orchidaceous plants ; 

 nevertheless, some of them are very handsome and delicate in 

 colour. They are all evergreen plants, with close-set tufts of 

 long leathery or shorter fleshy leaves ; some of them large- 

 growing plants, with short pseudobulbs, from which the leaves 

 and flowers proceed. The flowers are large, loosely racemose, 

 the racemes being often long and pendulous. Some thirty 

 species are described, chiefly from India, the Malayan Archi- 

 pelago, and China, but a few outlying species occur in Africa, 

 Australia, New Caledonia, and Japan. 



Culture. — They succeed best grown in the Cattleya house, 

 and are generally free-flowering plants, some of them pro- 

 ducing pendulous spikes as much as two feet long. They 

 require plenty of pot room, as they send out thick fleshy 

 roots very freely. We grow them in rough fibrous peat and 

 loam, with good drainage, and a liberal quantity of water at 

 the roots during their period of growth, but allowing them 

 less water afterwards. Propagation is efiected by dividing the 



