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CYMBIDIUM. 



purely tropical species require more heat. The watering must he 

 regulated according to the season of the year, the treatment of the 

 Cymhidiums in this respect being much the same as that of the 

 Yeratrifoli^ section of the Calanthes.* 



Oymbidium canaliculatum. 



"Stems nearly pseudo-bulbous, 1 — 3 inches long. Leaves linear, acute, 



the longest about a foot long. Eaceme as long as the leaf, lax 



pendulous, many-flowered ; pedicels very slender, together, with the short 



ovary an inch long. Flowers coriaceous, § inch in diameter; perianth 



segments spreading, the petals rather smaller, elliptic-oblong, sub-acute, 



concave, brown with green margins ; lip shorter than the petals, white 



with pinkish blotches, three-lobed, the lateral lobes narrow and small, 



the middle lobe ovate, sub-acute ; disk with two low ridges. Column 



white, blotched with purple." — Botanical Magazine. 



Cymbidium canaliculatum, R. Br. Prod. p. 331 (1810). Lindl. Gen. et Sp. 

 Orch. p. 164. Miiller Fragm. vol. V. p. 95. Bot. Mag. t. 5851. Benth. Fl. 

 Austr, VI. p. 302. 



Oymbidium canaliculatum is somewhat sparingly distributed over 

 north and east Australia from Arnheim's Land and Cape York 

 southwards to Hunter's River, in New South Wales, where it was 

 first gathered by Bidvvill ; the geographical and also the climatic 

 range of the species is therefore considerable. It was first discovered 

 by Dr. Robert Brown in the beginning of the present century, near 

 Cape York, in north-east Australia, and where in 1865 it was re- 

 discovered by the late John Gould Veitch, who first introduced it 

 to British gardens. 



0. chloranthum. 



Leaves ensiform, recurved, 15 — 20 inches long, sub-acute. Racemes 



as long as the leaves, erect or arching, many-flowered. Flowers 2 inches 



in diameter ; sepals and petals nearly uniform, spreading, oblong, obtuse, 



yellow-green with a few red spots near the base ; lip broadly oblong, 



three-lobed, the side lobes small, roundish oblong, incurved, red on the 



inside ; the front lobe sub-quacbate, yellowish white spotted with red ; 



disk with two crenulate lamellae that extend to the base of the lip. 



Column semi-terete, yellow stained with red. 



Cymbidium chloranthum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843, misc. No. 102. Id. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. III. p. 29. Bot. Mag. t. 4907. Rchb in Walp, Ann, VI. 

 p. 623. 



Tbe origin of this is not certainly known ; it was first cultivated 



by Messrs. Loddiges in 1843, and was reported by them to be a 



* See Calanthe, p. 62. 



