CYMBIDIUM. 189 
Sikkim, at the bottoms of tropical valleys and along the base of the range; 
common; in flower during May; Pantling, No. 441. In Bengal, Assam, Sylhet, 
Burma, Andaman Islands, S. India. Perak ; Wray, No. 3738. 
The flowers of this are of a dark purple brown throughout, the sepals and petals 
having yellow margins. This resembles C. eloifolium, Swartz, but has narrower leaves, 
acute, not emarginate at the apex, and a. shorter raceme which is pendulous from its 
origin. The flowers also are smaller, and the ovary is only half as long as in that 
species, The lip also differs, being continuously bilamellate in this, and the apical lobe 
being emarginate at the apex. The flowers of this are much darker in colour than those 
of C. aloifolium, Swartz, as the latter occurs in Sikkim. The two plants are apparently 
distinct, and no intermediate forms are found. They are readily recognised in the living 
state while in flower; but, in the Herbarium, it is not easy to distinguish them. 
PLATE 251.—Cymbidium pendulum, Swartz. A plant; of natural size, Fig. 1 floral bract, stalked 
ovary, column, anther in situ and lip, in profile, 2 lip, 3 column with anther, 4 empty anther from 
behind, 5 pollinia; al enlarged. 
6. CYMBIDIUM ALOIFOLIUM, Swartz in Nov. Act. Upsal. VI, 73. 
Pseudo-stem short. Leaves linear-oblong, curved, obtuse, fleshy, slightly and obliquely 
notched at the apex, somewhat sheathing and slightly expanded at the base; length 
12 to 22 in., breadth 1 to 1:15 in. Inflorescence from the base of the small pseudo: 
stem, somewhat shorter Шап the leaves; the peduncle 3 or 4 in. long, bearing several 
tubular acute scarious sheaths near the base; ruceme many-flowered, decurved, 9 to 18 in. 
long. Flowers 1:5 in. across; the floral bract ovate, minute, the stalked ovary nearly 1 in. 
long. Sepals. sub-equal, oblong, slightly oblanceolate, blunt, the lateral pair somewhat 
faleate. Petals as long as the sepals, ovate-oblanceolate, blunt. Тір as long ав the 
sepals, oblong, 3-lobed, its upper surface with two lamellae broken and disconnected 
in the middle; the lateral lobes long, narrow, their apices blunt, entire, pointing 
forwards; the apical lobe ovate-oblong, much decurved. Column slightly thickened at 
the apex. Anther papillose, sub-quadrate, the gland of the pollinia small Capsule 
elliptic, pointed at each end, 3-grooved. Swartz in Schrad. Journ. Bot. 1779, II, 
218; Roxb, Fl. Ind. III, 458; Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orch., 165; Lodd. Bot. Cab., 
t. 967; Walp. Ann. VI, 624 (escl. i. Wight); Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 10 (т part). 
Epidendrim aloifolium, Linn. Sp. Pl. 953. ? Aerides Borasst, Smith in Rees’ Cyclop. 
Suppl. (in part). Epidendrum aloides, Bot. Mag., t. 387. 
Sikkim, at low elevations; in flower during April and May; Anderson; Pantling, 
No. 268. In Bengal, Assam, Andaman Islands, Perak. South of India; Wight, No. 2989. 
Ceylon; Thwaites, C. P., 3379 (named C. biolor). ? China. 
There has been some confusion between Swartzs two species б. aloifolium and 
C. pendulum. This confusion is partly dissipated if Swartz’s original descriptions be 
consulted. From these it will be seen that both species were founded on figures, not 
on plants. C. aloifolium was founded on Rheede's figure of Kansjiram-Maravara in 
Vol. XII, t. 8 of his Hortus Malabaricus (which Linnzus named Fpidendrum aloifolium 
Sp. РІ. 1350). And С. pendulum was founded on Roxburgh's figure of Epidendrum 
pendulum in his Coromandel Plants, I, t. 44. The next author who dealt with the two 
