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fragrant. Тһе rachis of the raceme is also purplish, The Ceylon plant named 
C. hematodes by Lindley is considered by Sir Joseph Hooker to be only a form of 
this. It has (according to Lindley) white sepals and petals with rose-coloured veins, a 
white lip with red spots and a yellow column. We have tentatively excluded from the 
synonymy of this Limodorum longifolum, Roxb. (Fl. Ind. III, 468), because the author's 
own drawing of that plant in the Caleutta Herbarium represents the colour of the flowers 
as of а deep rose colour, and the lip as deflexed and flattened. It is just possible, 
however, that Roxburgh’s figure may have been coloured reddish instead of yellowish, 
by some blunder of the draftsman, and that the lip also may have been wrongly 
represented. In all other respects (including the terrestrial habit) Roxburgh's drawing 
of Limodorum longifolium would pass for one of Cymbilium cyperifolium. And we know 
of no other orchid to which this plant of Roxburgh's can be referred without even 
greater difficulty. Part of Wallich’s No. 7353, although named C. eyperifolium by himself, 
is really €. longifolium, Don, 
PrarE 248.—Cymbidium cyperifolium, Wall. Ап entire plant; of natural sise. Fig. 1 а flower, 
2 floral bract, stalked ovary, column, anther and lip, in profile, 3 lip, 4 column and anther, 5 anther, 
6 pollinia, 7 a capsule; all enlarged. 
8. CYMBIDIUM Munronranum, King and Pantling in Journ. As. Soc. 
| Beng. LXIV, Pt. 2, p. 338. 
Terrestrial; leaves stiff, erect, linear, acuminate, 16 to 20 in. long and.'75 in. 
broad, tapered into a petiole or not. acemes stout, erect, about 1 foot long, (about 
half being stalk), with two or three distant closely embracing sheaths 1 in. long. 
Flowers about 7 or 8, distant, 1 in. in diam.; floral bract shorter than the stalked 
ovary, lanceolate. Sepals and petals sub-equal, oblong-lanceolate, acute. Lip lanceolate 
(when flattened out), everywhere concave on the upper surface; the lateral lobes elongate 
and shallow, the dise with two parallel smooth lamelle in its centre ending with the 
side lobes, the apical lobe narrow and reflexed. Pollinia plano-convex, bifid, sessile on 
the narrow gland. 
Sikkim, in the Teesta Valley, on dry knolls at an elevation of 1,500 feet. Bhutan 
Duar; flowering in May; Pantling, No. 250. | 
The flowers of this species are sweetly-scented, the sepals and petals are straw- 
coloured and each has five dotted or streaked lines, the lip being pink except its apical 
lob» which is pale yellow transversely blotched with red. Its nearest ally is C. ensifolium, 
Swartz, under which it appears to be included by Lindley and other authorities. But 
this Sikkim plant appears to us to differ very materially from the true Chinese 
С. ensifolium. Те species is dedicated to the late Mr. James Munro, for many years 
resident in Sikkim and well known, not only as a lover of plants, but as a man 
of great sincerity, and of unlimited kindness and hospitality. This is the Sikkim 
plant referred to in a note under the description of C. ensifolium in the Flora of Br, 
Ind. VI, 14. 
Pirate 249.—Cymbidium Munronianum, King and Pantling. А plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 lip, 
2 floral bract, stalked ovary, column with anther and lip, side view, 3 part of ovary, column and 
anther, 4 empty anther from behind, 5 pollinia, front and back view; ай enlaryed, 6 capsules; of 
natural size. 
Ах». Roy. Вот. Garb., Caucurra, Vou. VIII. 
