Plate 177. 



OYMBIDIXJM EBURNEUM. 



The Ivory Cymbidinm. 



ixplanatum 



Lahelhnn ses- 



sile, libemm, ecalcaratum, concavum, cum basi columnae nunc articulatum, nunc leviter concaTuni 

 T. trllobum. Anthera bilocularis. PolUnia 2, sa^pius postice biloba, in glandulam subtriangu- 

 larem subsessilia. Lindl. * 



Cymbidium eburneum ; foliis disticliis 



acuminatis 



racemo brevi sub-2-floro, squamis elongatis acumiudLis imuixo..t.oj ^^^^^ • +• u 



eburneis, sepalis petalisque lineari-oblongis oblongo-lanceolatisve subcarnosisacutis suDu - 

 -,,,.,,„ ,, ^ . . •-, , 1.1.- i„i.„_„ia.,,. >,^f,.r.;i^fi«iTif,ftrmedio trianjnilan-acuto 



rotundat 



lamellis in unam mediam 



tumidam confluentibus. 



Cymbidium eburne 

 Mag. t 5126. 



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Mag 



Bui. 



This lovely Orchid was first found by the late Mr. Griffith 



according 



the 



Br. Lindley's notes on the Orchidology of India, discovered it ^^J^^^™| .. ^^^^ 

 Khasia mountains of East Bengal, where it grows at an elevation «^^^"^^|^^^^ ^^^^^^.^ 

 Fine plants were imported by Messrs. Loddiges, probably from the Ca cu a^ ^o ^^^^ ^ 

 Gardens, from which Dr. Lindley described the species in 1847. '^^^ ^P^^!™''" ^ . 

 flowered in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in April, 1859, and its ''^"^^^^^tTZT^^^^^ 



ally described, slightly resembled that of starch 



one 



plant Like most other Cymbidia it will not thrive in a high^ temperature, 



be considered a ' cool ' Orchid. It should be grown in a good-sized po . ^ ^^^^^ 



Bescr. Stems tufted. . Leaves distichous at the base, ^"'^ l^"f .^'""'"^^jl^ ^^^ th 



or two feet long by three-quarters of an inch wide, rather rigul, ^'^^^^^^ ^^ ^.^|^^ .J^^^^^ 

 'livisions sharp. Baceme very short in proportion to the foliage, ^'|'^^^ .^^J!^^ j^.^,^,^, 

 long, decumbent or inclined, few-flowered, covered with long, shaip, ^ ^^^ ^^^^, 

 Flowers large, of a fine ivory-white colour, five to six inches across. ^ .^^^.^^^^^.^.^^^ ^^^^ 

 similar, linear-oblong, acute, scarcely undulate. Lahellum shorter, ; 



