ORCHID SPECIES 



CYMBIDIUM CANALICULATUM, E. Br. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5851 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. ix. p. 12. 



This species was first discovered by Robert Brown in the beginning of 

 the last century, near Cape York, in North-East Australia, where in 



1865 it was re-discovered by the late John Gould Veitch and by him 

 introduced to our gardens. 



It flowered at Chelsea for the first time in April 1870, and from this 

 plant, the figure in the Botanical Magazine was prepared. 



CYMBIDIUM GEANDIFLOEUM, Griff. 



Syns. 0. Hookerianum, Rchb. f. 



Gard. Chron. 1892, vol. xi. p. 267, with fig. ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. ix. p. 18; 

 Echb. in Gard. Chron. 1866, p. 7 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5574. 



Introduced to Exeter through Thomas Lobb, the first plant flowering in 



1866 at Chelsea. 



Eeichenbach at once described it, and named it in compliment to Sir 

 Joseph Hooker, who had just succeeded his father as Director of the Eoyal 

 Gardens, Kew. The plant had, however, previously been named by Griffith 

 its discoverer, a fact overlooked by Eeichenbach at the time. 



CYMBIDIUM HUTTONI, Hook. f. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5676; Orchid Review, 1900, vol. viii. p. 232 ; Gard. Chron. 1905, vol. xxxviii. 



p. 63, figs. 21, 22. 



A rare and remarkable species sent from Java by the unfortunate Henry 

 Hutton, in commemoration of whose labours and early death it is named. 

 Apparently it was soon lost to cultivation, until re-imported to Kew, and 

 flowered in the Gardens in 1900. 



The flowers, densely spotted all over with dusky brown on a light 

 yellow ground, are almost purple at the apex of the petals and lip. 



CYMBIDIUM WILSONI, Hort. 



Gard. Chron. 1904, vol. xxxv. p. 157, with fig. ; The Garden, 1904, vol. Ixv. p. 189, with 

 fig. ; Orchid Review, 1904, vol. xii. p. 79. 



A remarkable species introduced from the province of Yunnan, South 

 China, through E. H. Wilson in 1901, and first flowered at Chelsea in 

 February 1904. 



The species is allied to Cymbidium giganteum, but differs in being much 

 smaller in all its parts. 



The fragrant flowers have brownish-green sepals and petals obscurely 

 marked with reddish dots at the base, the lip is cream-white with 

 irregular reddish-brown blotches and markings, and the tip of the rostellum 

 maroon purple. 



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