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CYMBIDIUM. 



a purple blotch on the disk, below -which are two tooth-like tubercles 



prolonged into diverging lines to the base. 



Galeandra nivalis, Hort. Gard. Chron, XVII. (1882), p. 537, with fig. Illus. hort. 

 XXXTI. (1885), t. 555. 



We find nothing recorded of the origin of this elegant species 



nor any authority for the name. It flowered at Burford Lodge in 



the spring of 1882^ on wliich occasion it was exhibited at a meeting 



of the Royal Horticultural Society and figured in the Gardeners' 



Chronicle. We are indebted to Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., for 



materials for description. 



SUB-TRIBE CYMBIDIE^. 



Terrestrial or more or less epiphyte. Stems foliate, often tJdckened 

 into pseudo-bulhs. Leaves usually long a.nd narrow, but sometimes 

 broader, and pUcatehj nerved. Racemes simple, rarely branched. 

 Lahellum not spurred.* 



CYMBIDIUM. 



Swartz. in K. Vet. Acad. Stockli. Nya. Handl. XX. p. 236 (1800), pro parte. Lindl. Gen. 

 etSp. Orch. p. 161 (1832). Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. III. p. 536 (1883). 



The botanical history of Cymbidium is much complicated, and to 

 follow the changes the genus has undergone since its first 

 publication lies beyond the scope of this work ; we can therefore 

 only note a few of the most salient points. 



The genus was founded by Swartz, the Swedish botanist,t and 

 published by him at the same time as Dendrobium, Oncidium, 

 Vanilla, and some others of less interest in a horticultural sense. 

 Besides three genuine Asiatic species, Swartz included in Cymbidium 

 three or four others of West Indian origin and three or four from 

 South Africa, so that the genus was much mixed at the very 

 beginning. This confusion continued to accumulate till Lindley 

 dealt with the genus in his Genera and Species of Orchidaceous 

 Plants, and even there, as he himself records that '' Cymbidium as 

 understood in that work is no doubt made up of several very different 



* The chief character that separates this sub-tribe from the Eulophie^ is the absence of the 

 spur in the labellum. t Sec Dendrobium, p. 5. 



