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CYMBIDIUM LANCIFOLIUM. 
Sword-leaved Cymbidium. 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.—Nat. Onp. ORCHIDEE. 
Dw. a terminalis, mobilis, decidua. Masse pollinis demum cereacet.— 
Gen. Cuar.—Labellum ecalcaratum, concavum, cum basi (simplici nec pro- 
| ducta) columne articulatum. Petala patentia, distincta: Massa pollinis 
duo, po8tice bilobe.—Br. 
Cymbidium lancifolium; foliis radicalibus lancéolatis nervosis basi atte. 
nuatis, scapo tereti paucifloro, labello oblongo apiee recurvato ma- 
culato. 
Root composed of large, cylindrical, fleshy fibres. 
Leaves springing from the root in small fascicles, from 8 inches to a foot in 
length, lanceolate, waved, cute, striated, rather fleshy, tapering down 
for a great way into very narrow bases, which are surrounded for a con- 
siderable part of their length with large brownish, imbricated, striated, 
acute sheaths. oc Gistiieindedes 
uently in from the summit on 
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but smaller, imbricated and convoluted sheaths, rather shorter than the 
leaves, erect, cylindrical, very pale green, bearing about 4 or 5 mode 
rately sized flowers. 
Germen so long and slender as to appear like a footstalk, | semiterete, pale 
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and central rose-colored line or band, which does not reach, however, 
_ quite to the summit. 
articulated with the base of the column, erecto-patent, oblong, almost 
white on the under side, but spotted at the base ; ingen oar en 
longitudinal elevated ridge, with a deep furrow on the top, 3-lobed, ¢ 
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