134 VANDEA, 
partite, sessile on a small or large often strap-shaped gland.—Species about 60, in 
temperate, tropical or subtropical Asia, a few in Africa and in Australia. 
Terrestrial :— 
о. ом, مات ا ات کو‎ И Е 1. С.  macrorhizon. 
Leaves linear, their bases forming a short pseudo-stem :— 
ИЕ سوا تا‎ С اس یا یں‎ олары ы Мызы; 2. 0. Mackinnoni. 
FORO I. ка, га. ма کرو کو‎ 25. 3. С. cyperifolium. 
Epiphytal, inflorescence decurved :— 
Flowers not exceeding 9:5 cm. across :— 
Inflorescence less than half the Ta of the leaves, leaves 
entire at the apex 4. О, pendulum. 
Inflorescence nearly as ind аа "e: ішеді. 00 — 
жасы саа E atus оза edet oiu < 5. C. alotfolium. 
Flowers much larger :— 
Leaves narrowly linear 
> longifolium. 
Deve лоо С и OIE E эу 7% 
giganteum. 
1. CYMBIDIUM MACRORHIZON Lindl. Сеп. and Spec. Orch. 162. 
A terrestrial parasite without leaves. Rootstock as thick as а goose-quill, creeping, 
branched and jointed. Scape very short, basal sheaths short, or elongating to 5 ст. 
and narrowly subfoliaceous. Raceme 6—8-flowered, 1:5 {о 2:3 dm. long; bracts 7 to 
12 mm., narrow, membranous. Flowers 3 to 4 cm. in diam. Sepals about 2 cm. long, 
linear-lanceolate, acuminate, pale yellow tinged with pink, spreading or reflexed. Petals 
erect, slightly shorter and broader, whitish streaked with pink. Lip 17 cm., white 
spotted with crimson; side lobes narrow, erect, rounded and with inflexed margins: 
midlobe oblong or subpanduriform; disk with two thick ridges between the side lobes. 
Column elongate, curved, about 12 mm. long, inner surface streaked with crimson. 
Anther рарШове outside; pollinia 4, plano-convex, sessile on the crescent-shaped gland. 
Royle Ш. Him. Bot. 366; Hook. f. Fl, Br. Ind. vi, 9 
N.-W. india; Royle, Putus Dehra Dun; on Kalanga Hill, Mackinnom's collector ; 
Mussoorie on Banog Hill 7,500 feet, Mackinnon (Duthie’s No. 22717); Garhwál east Е 
Tehri, Mackinnon’s collector (Duthws No. 25403); бага Yalley in Kumaon, Duthie’s 
collector No. 24098; reported also from Kashmir. Flowers during July and August. It 
extends eastwards to Assam and to the Khasia and Naga Hills. In Sikkim it has been 
collected in the Ranjit Valley, but not since 1879, 
Prate 114. Cymbidium macrorhizon Lindl.—A plant,—of natural size. Fig. 1, single 
flower 2, column and lip; 3, lip; 4, front view of column; 5, anther; 6 and 7, pollinia; 
—ul ۵ 
2. Сумвилом Маскікхозі Duthie in Journ. Ав, Soc, Beng, lxxi, pt. 2, 41. 
Terrestrial, ccespitose. Pseudo-stem short, emitting many thick spongy roots. Leaves. 
linear, acuminate, З to 4 dm, long and about 1:3 em. broad, the lowest reduced to 
membranous sheaths, margins not serrulate. Scape 1-flowered, much shorter than the 
leaves, clothed to the base with loose lanceolate acuminate eymbiform hyaline sheaths. 
Floral bract longer than the much curved ovary, pale yellow with purple veins. Flowers 
