188 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
4. CYMBIDIUM SIMONSIANUM, King and Pantling in Journ. As, Soc. Beng., 
Vol. LXIV, Pt. 2, p. 338. 
Leaves linear, sessile, not dilated at the base, the apex acute and sub-oblique, 
length З feet or more, breadth °4 or :5 in. Raceme 8 in. long, pendulous, 
shortly stalked, sheathed at the base by large imbricate bracts 1 to 95 in. 
long. Flowers about 10 to 12, sparse; their bracts triangular, very short. Sepals sub- 
equal, linear-oblong, slightly wider near the apex, about 1 in. long. Petals rather 
shorter than the sepals, connivent round the column. Jip with long shallow erect 
blunt entire side lobes parallel with, and as long as, the column; the apical lobe 
ovate, apiculate, deflexed; lamelle of the lip stout, parallel, clothed with glandular 
hairs, ending abruptly with the side lobes, but continued partly into the apical lobe 
as thickened lines. Pollinia faleately ovoid, compressed, divergent, the gland narrow. 
Sikkim, in the valley of the Teesta, elevation about 1,000 feet; Pantling, No. 51, 
Flowers in August. Assam; locality unknown, 
The flowers of this species are sweet-scented; the sepals and petals are white 
with a crimson central line; the lip is purple, but has oblique white and yellow lines 
on the lateral lobes, with a large blotch of yellow on the apical lobe; the column 
is of а very dark crimson, and the anther of a pale yellow colour. Specimens of 
this plant were sent many. years ago from Assam by the late Dr. J. C. Simons, to 
whom the Calcutta Herbarium is indebted for numerous contributions of plants, and 
for a large number of drawings of orchids. The species has been dedicated to his 
. memory. 
PrarE 250.—Cymbidium Simonsianum, King and Pan‘ling. A plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 
column with anther in situ and lip, side view, 2 lip, 3 column with anther, 4 section through 
the lip to show the lamelle with their glandular hairs, 5 empty anther from behind, 6 pollinia, 
front view, 7 the same, back view; all enlarged. | 
9. CYMBIDIUM PENDULUM, Swartz in Nov. Act. Upsal VI, 73. 
Pseudo-stem stout, З in. long. Leaves linear-oblong, acute, not notched, 24 to 30 
in. long and “75 to 1 in. broad, sheathing and expanded at the base. Inflorescence 
10 or 12 in. long, decurved from the base; the peduncle about 3 in. „ clothed with 
imbricate withered sheaths each :5 to 2 in. long. Flowers numerous but not crowded, 
1:25 in. across; floral bract small, triangular, stalked ovary :5 in. long. Sepals equal, 
oblong, slightly dilated near their blunt apices. Petals nearly as long as the sepals 
and a little wider. Zip adnate to the short foot of the column, oblong, dilated 
and sub-saccate at the base; side lobes narrow, their apices blunt and pointed forwards; 
apical lobe oblong, blunt, emarginate, much decurved; disc between the side lobes 
with two parallel continuous lamellae divergent at the base, meeting in the middle, 
and slightly separating at their clavate apices. Column erect, slightly narrower at the 
apex than at the base, with.a very short foot. Anther broad, depressed, minutely 
рарШове, Pollinia ovoid, acute, diverging, sessile on a broad thin narrow gland. Roxb. 
Fl. Ind. ПІ, 458; Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orch., 165; Walp. Ann. VI, 624 (ezel. cit. 
Bot. Reg.) C. «Жый, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 10 (in part). ©. crassifolium, Wall. 
Cat., 7357. О. Manni Reichb. fil in Flora, 1872, 274. Ер епіғит doe Roxb. 
Cot Plants, I, 35, t. 44. 
