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about 5 cm. across, nodding. Sepals and petals spreading, green. Sepals lanceolate, 
obtuse, a little longer tian the petals. Petals elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, ó-nerved. Lip 
about as long as the petals, obovate-oblong (when spread out), 3-lobed, saccate at the 
base, pale yellow, blotched with purple; lateral lobes narrow, erect ; the terminal one 
abruptly deflexed, rounded at the apex and nearly entire; disk with two raised 
incurved smooth lamellar flaps extending from the base to a little beyond the side lobes, 
their edges nearly parallel but not meeting. Column short, stout, auricled at the base, 
concave in front marked with purple blotches like the lip. Pollinia 4, obliquely 
obovoid, plano-convex, attached to a hemispherical gland. Ripe capsule 1°5 dm. long 
(including the long pedicel), ellipsoid clavate, prominently ribbed. 
Discovered by Mr. Р. W. Mackinnon, near Mussoorie, at an elevation of about 
5,500 feet, growing under trees and flowering during the month of F ebruary ; 
Duthie’s Nos. 22709, 94152. 
This species is very nearly allied to C. virescens Lindl, a native of Japan. In the latter, 
however, the margins of the leaves are distinctly serrulate, the flowers are larger and the bracts on 
the scape are more numerous and more tinted; the lamelle on the disk of the lip are much curved 
and nearly parallel to the margins of the lateral lobes. Of Indian species it most nearly resembles 
С. cyperifolium. The latter, however, is a much larger plant, the scape is more than 1-flowered, and 
the eolouring of the lip and the shape of the pollinia and that of gland are very different; also the 
margins of the leaves are serrulate, and the sheaths on the scape as well as the floral bract are green. 
Puare 115, Cymbidium Mackinnoni Duthie—Portion of plant,—of natural size, Fig. 1, 
side view of flower, with sepals and petals removed; 2, lip and column; 3, pollinia ;—all 
enlarged ; 4, ripe capsule,—of natural size. 
3. CYMBIDIUM CYPERIFOLIUM Wall. Cat. 7353 (in part). 
Terrestrial; pseudo-stem thin, short. Leaves up to 7:5 dm. long, linear, finely 
acuminate, slightly expanded towards the sheathing base, the lowest ones short and 
sheath-like, margins serrulate. Inflorescence from the base of the pseudo-stem, erect, 
about 3 dm. long, the peduncle clothed with long acuminate sheaths up to the base of 
the raceme. Flowers green, with dull purple markings on the lip and column, 25 cm. 
long, and about 8:5 cm. across; floral bract green, lanceolate, acuminate, longer than 
the stalked ovary. Sepals subequal, linear-lanceolate, acute, spreading. Petals rather 
shorter and somewhat broader. Jip as long as the petals, oblong (when spread out), 
glabrous, 3-lobed; lateral lobes long, narrow, erect; terminal lobe abruptly deflexed, 
ovate or oblong-ovate, entire, the disk between the side lobes with two smooth lamellar 
incurved flaps, their edges parallel but not touching, Column rather stout. Anther broad; 
pollinia obliquely ovoid, divergent, cleft nearly to the base, sessile on a very narrow 
elongate gland. Сарзие ellipsoid-clavate, about 6 em. long. Lindl. Gen. and Sp. 
Orch. 163; іп Journ. Linn. Soc. iii, 28; Hook. f. КІ, Br, Ind. vi, 13 (excl. syn. 
Limodorum longifolium Roxb.); King & Pantling in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Cale, viii, 
186, t, 948. С. тігі (оғит Griff. Itin. Notes 126, No, 454. 
Near Mussoorie, growing amongst dense undergrowth at about 6,000 feet, Mackinnon 
(Duthie’s Nos. 21748, 22719), flowering during March and April; Garhwál and Kumaon 
at 5,000 feet, Edgeworth. It extends eastwards to Sikkim, the Khasia and Naga чал 
Manipur and Upper Burma, and is found also in Perak and Java. 
