190 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM.HIMALAYA. 
was Lindley who, in his Genera and Species of Orchids, kept them both up, distinguishing 
them thus: 
C. aloifolium. C. pendulum. 
Sepals and petals... lanceolate, rather obtuse. linear-oblong, obtuse. 
Lateral lobes of lip... oblong, obtuse. ovate, acute. 
Lamelle of lip ... interrupted, clavate, curved in the continuous, approximated at the apex. 
lower half. 
Sir Joseph Hooker in his Flora of British India united the two under the name 
C. aloifolium ; and, if Herbarium material only be examined, there is much to be said for 
this treatment. The plants as they grow, which they do side by side in Sikkim, appear 
however so different that we have kept up both as a species. The sepals and petals of 
C. aloifolium, as we have figured it, are yellowish, each having a broad mesial purple 
stripe. The upper surface of the lip is purple, with darker lines of the same colour and 
a patch of whitish at the base of the apical lobe. The outer surface is yellowish and 
striped only on the apical lobe. It has broader, blunter, and more coriaceous leaves 
than C. pendulum, and their apices are notched; the peduncle of the raceme being erect, 
while the raceme itself is decurved; whereas in б. pendulum the peduncle is decurved 
from its origin from the stem. 
Prare 252.—Cymbidium aloifolium, Swartz. A plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 apex of ovary, 
column and lip, side view, 2 lip, front view, З front view of column with anther, 4 empty anther, 
9 pollinia i» situ after removal of anther-cap, front view, 6 pollinia and gland after removal, back 
view; all enlarged. 
7. Сүмвірісм Devontanum, Paxt. Mag. Bot. X, 97, сит ie. 
Pseudo-stem short, clothed with large scarious imbricate acute sheaths. Leaves two or 
three, coriaceous, narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, sub-acute, attenuated into a long-channelled 
petiole; length of blade 9 to 12 іп, breadth 15 to 2 in., petiole 5 to 8 in. long. 
Inflorescence about as long as the aves pendulous, the polti shorter than the raceme, 
bearing four to six loose lanceolate acuminate sheaths. Raceme many-flowered. Flowers 
about 1:25 in. across vertically, and about ‘85 in. horizontally; floral bract small, oblong, 
acute, much shorter than the stalked ovary. Sepals sub-equal, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 
spreading, curved. Petals as long аз the sepals, ovate-lanceolate, spreading. Lip as long 
as the petals, oblong, concave, decurved from the base; the side lobes obscure, gradually 
passing into the triangular-ovate mid-lobe; the lamellæ short, broad, smooth. Column 
winged towards the apex, the base narrowed and with two small glands. Anther dome- 
shaped. Pollinia ovoid, pointed, diverging, sessile оп a broad gland. Capsule ovoid, 
pointed at each end, nearly 1:5 in. long. Warner Orch. Alb., t. 170; Reichb. fil in 
Gard. Chron., 1881, I, 395; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 10. 
Sikkim, at elevations of from 5,000 to 7,000 feet; in flower during May. and 
June; Pantling, No. 265. ; 
The flowers vary in colour from brownish to purple. The common coloration in 
Sikkim is that shown here, viz., sepals and petals purplish-brown with green lines; lip 
of a darker hue, with a white steh mottled with mp near the base; column greenish 
with ере blotches at apex and base. 
