CYMBIDIUM. 



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to expand. It was introduced by our Exeter firm through 

 Thomas Lobb, the first plant flowering at Chelsea in 1866, on 

 which occasion it was described by Reichenbach in the Gardeners' 

 Chronicle under the name of Gymhldium HooJcerianum, in compliment 

 to Dr. (now Sir Joseph) Hooker, who had then but recently succeeded 

 his father in the Directorship of the Royal Gardens at Kew. The 

 plant had, however, been many years previously registered by 

 Grifiith, its original discoverer, as G. grandlflorum in the publications 

 quoted above. 



Its habitat is the eastern Himalaya, ascending to 5,000 — 7,000 feet 

 in East Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhotan, growing under the same climatic 

 conditions and local environment as Gymhidium gigaritemn. 



Cymbidium Lowiauum. 



Lowianum. 



Stems and leaves as in Cymbidium giganteum. Racemes robust, 

 arching, bearing 18 — 25 flowers. Flowers 3 — 4 inches across transversely; 

 sepals and petals similar, oblong-lanceolate, acute, greenish-yellow with 

 reddish veins, the sepals obscurely keeled behind, and the petals a 

 little narrower than the sepals; lip tliree-lobed, the side lobes roundish- 

 oblong, erect, light bufr-ycllow ; the intermediate lobe deltoid, reflexed 

 with slightly undulate margin, and covered with a velvety pubescence, 

 dark red-crimson wiili a pale buff-yellow margin, white at the base ; 



