14 CYMBIDIUM. 



enormous detached blocks, while the north is clothed with a dense 

 forest containing red tree-rhododendrons and oaks. The hard granite 

 of the top is covered with matted mosses, lichens, lycopodiums and 

 ferns, amongst which are many curious and beautiful air plants, as 

 Eria, Coelogyne {Wallichiana, maculata and elataj, Cymbidium, 

 Dendrobium, etc., some of them flowering profusely ; and though freely 

 exposed to the sun and wind, dews and frost, rain and droughts, 

 they were all fresh, bright green and strong, under very different 

 treatment from that to which they are exposed (1849 — 51) in the 

 damp, unhealthy, steamy orchid houses of our English gardens."* 



dimhidium Devonianum appears to have been very rare in British 

 gardens for many years after its first introduction till it was 

 collected by Gustav Mann in Sikkim, and Freeman in Assam^ 

 1868 — 75. The species is a variable one as regards the colour of 

 the flower; its usual flowering season is April and May. 



0. eburneum. 



Stems obscurely pseudo-bulbous sheathed by the imbricating bases of 

 the leaves. Leaves 9 — 15 to each growth, strictly linear, acute, 15 — 24 

 inches long. Peduncles stoutish, erect, much shorter than the leaves, 

 sheathed by about three alternate, lanceolate, finely-acuminated bracts, 

 sometimes one- usually two-flowered. Flowers 3 inches in diameter, very 

 fragrant; sepals and petals similar, oblong or ovate-oblong, acute, ivory- 

 white, the dorsal sepal concave and apiculate, the petals a little 

 narrower than the sepals and sub-falcate ; lip broadly ovate-oblong, 

 three-lobed, the side lobes incurved towards the column, ivory-white, the 

 intermediate lobe with crisped margin, ivory-white, sometimes with 

 some scattered purple dots around the ochraceous disk ; crest an 

 oblong, fleshy, grooved and pubescent, yellow plate, thickened at the 

 apex, and with tliree raised lines extending the whole length. Column 

 clavate, triquetral, with two narrow wings, white above, concave in 

 front with a purple stain. 



Cymbidium eburneum, Lindl. in Bot. Eeg. 1847, t. 67. Id. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. III. p. 28 (1858), Paxt. Mag. Bot. XV. p. 145 (1849). Bot. Mag. t. 5126 

 (1859). Warner's Sel. Orch. J. t. 27. Jennings' Orch. t. 16. Kegel's Gartenfl. 

 (1880), p. 155, icon. xyl. Gard. Chron. XVII. (1882), p. 496, with fig. Id. XX. 

 (1884), p. 77, with fig. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 11. 



var. — Dayi. 



Leaves narrower and longer ; flowers ivorj'-white with a row of 



purple spots on each side of the disk of the lip. 



C. eburneum Dayi, Jennings' Orch. t. Id. C. Dayanum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 

 1869, p, 710. 



* Vol. II. p. 295. 



