CYMBIDIUM. 17 



sent from Singapore to Messrs. Loddiges by Cuming, the object of 

 the second plate being to show the variabiHty of the species. It 

 is also that which is cultivated in gardens under the name of 

 C. pendulum, but unfortunately the name cannot be retained for this 

 species. On reference to Lindley's types preserved in the Herbarium 

 at Kew, it is clear that his G. pendulum, that is, the plant now 

 under notice, is not the species so named by Swartz, but it is that 

 discovered by Finlayson in Cochin China in the early part of the 

 present century, and named after him by Lindley. It appears to 

 have an extensive range in Malaysia. 



The variety atropurpureum , which is a very handsome one, has long 

 been known in the orchid collections of Europe ; it was cultivated 

 in 185 i by Mr. John Knowles, of Manchester, who had received it 

 from Borneo, but according to Dr. Lindley it had been collected by 

 Cuming in the Philippine Islands many years previously. Our 

 knowledge of it is derived from an exceptionally fine form in the 

 collection of Baron Schroeder, at The Dell, Staines. 



0. giganteum. 



Stems pseudo-bulbous, compressed, 4 — 6 inches long. Leaves linear- 



ligulate, acute, 24 — 30 or more inches long, convolute into a tube and 



yellowish to 3 — 4 inches from the base, distinctly keeled on the under 



side. Scapes robust, as long as the leaves, sheathed below with brown, 



membraneous, ovate-oblong, acute bracts 2 — 2^ inches long ; raceme 



7 — 10 or more flowered. Flowers distant, 3 — 4 inches across; 



sepals and petals light yellow -green striped longitudinally with red, the 



former oblong, acute, the latter narrower, linear-oblong, acute, sub-falcate ; 



lip oblong, three-lobed, the side lobes erect, coloured like the sepals 



and petals ; the middle lobe downy above, reflexed with uudidate and 



ciliate margin, yellow spotted with red, disk with two ciliated lamellcB 



that are confluent at their apice-s. Column clavate, arched, terete, and 



pale yellow above, concave and streaked below the stigma. 



Cymbidium criganteum, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orcli. p. 163 (1832). Id. Sert, 

 Orch. t. 4. Bot. Mag. t. 4844 (1855). Paxt. Macf. Bot. XII. p. 241 (1846). 

 lichb. in AValp. Ann. VI. p. 626. Williams' Orch. Alb. VI. t. 284. Hook. f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. VI. p. 12. Iridiorchis gigantea, Bhime, Orch. Arch. hid. p. 91. t. 26. 



This striking Cymbidium is a native of the tropical Himalaya 



from Kumaon in Nepal eastwards to Bhotan and the Khasia Hills, 



ascending to 4,000 — 5,500 feet; its lowest observed vertical range 



being in Sikkim where it descends to 1,000 feet ; it is essentially 



a mountain plant, never spreading into the plains, and always 



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