186 VANDEZ. 
4. CYMBIDIUM PENDULUM Swartz іп Noy. Act. Upsal. vi, 73, 
Pseudo-stem stout, 7:6 cm, long. Leaves linear-oblong, acute, net notched, up 
to 7:5 dm. long and from 15 to 9 сш. broad, expanding into basal sheaths. 
Inflorescence 95 to 3 dm., decurved from the base, the peduncle about 7'5 
cm., clothed with many imbricate sheaths. Flowers many, not crowded, dark 
purplish-brown, about 3 сш. across; floral bract minute, triangular, the ovary with 
stalk 1:3 cm. Sepals equal, oblong, slightly dilated near their blunt apices. Petals 
nearly as long as the sepals and a little wider, margined with yellow as are the 
sepals, Jip adnate to the short foot of the column, oblong, dilated and subsaccate at 
the base; side lobes narrow, their apices blunt and directed forwards; terminal lobe 
oblong, blunt, emarginate, much decurved; disk between the side lobes with two 
parallel continuous lamelle divergent at the base, meeting in the middle and slightly 
separating at their clavate apices. Column erect, narrower above, with a very short 
foot. Anther broad, depressed, minutely рарШове; pollinia ovoid, acute, diverging, 
essile on a broad thin shallow gland. Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 458; Lindl. Gen. and 
Sp. Orch. 165; Walp. Ann. vi, 642 (excl. cit. Bot. Reg.); King & Pant. in Ann. Roy. 
Bot. Gard. Cale. viii, 188, t. 251; Rolfe in Journ. Linn. бос. xxxvi, 31. 0. aloifolium 
Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 10 (in part) С. crassifolium Wall. Cat. 7357. С. Mannii Reichb. 
f. in Flora 1872, 274. Epidendrum pendulum Roxb. Cor. Pl. i, 35, t. 44. 
Kali Valley in Kumaon at a low elevation, Duthie’s collector No. 24097. Flowers 
in May or June. It extends eastwards to Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Sylhet, Burma and 
China; and is found also in 5, India, the Andaman Islands and Perak. 
5. CYMBIDIUM ALOIFoLIUM Swartz in Nov. Act. Upsal. vi, 73. 
Pseudo-si-m short. Leaves З to 5'5 dm. long and about 3 сш. broad, linear-oblong, 
curved, obtuse, fleshy, obliquely notched at the apex, slightly expanded at the sheathing 
base, Inflorescence from the base of the smail pseudo-stem, somewhat shorter than the 
leaves, peduncie 7:5 to 10 cm. long, bearing severul tubular acute scarious sheaths near 
the base; raceme many-flowered, decurved, З to 4 dm. long. Flowers 3'5 cm. across; floral 
bract minute, ovate, the stalked ovary about 12 mm. long. Sepals subequal, oblong or 
slightly oblanceolate, blunt. Petals as long as the sepals, ovate-oblanceolate, blunt, Jip as 
long as the sepals, oblong, 3-lobed, its upper surface with two lamelle broken and discon- 
nected in the middle; the lateral lobes long, narrow, their apices blunt, entire, pointing 
forwards; apical lobe ovate-oblong, much decurved. Column slightly thickened at the apex- 
Anther subquadrate, papillose, the gland of the pollinia small. Capsule elliptic, 8 to 9 
em. long. Swartz in Schrad, Journ. Bot. 1779, ii., 218; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iu, 458; Lindl. 
Gen. and Sp. Orch. 165; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 967; Walp. Ann. vi, 624 (excl. Ic. Wight); 
Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 10; King & Pantl. in Ann. Roy. Bot Gard. Cale. viii, 
189, t. 252. Epidendrum aloifolium Linn. Sp. Pl. 953. ? Aerides Borassi Smith in Rees 
Cyclop, Suppi. (та part) Epidendrum aloides Bot. Mag. t. 387. 
Bahraich district of N. Oudh near the Nepal frontier, Duthie’s collector No. 23865 : 
flowering during April and May. It extends eastwards to Bengal, Sikkim and Assam, 
and occurs also іп Š. India, Ceylon, the Andaman Islands and Perak. 
