St ee pes Ryet 
CYMBIDIUM PARISHII. 
[Pate 25. 
Native of Mouwlmein. 
Epiphytal. Stems fusiform, three to four inches long, annulately marked with 
the remains of the leaf-bases. Leaves evergreen, distichous, ligulate-linear, keeled 
behind, bifid with acute lobes, from one to two feet long, of a rich green colour. 
Racemes springing from the axils of the outer leaves, three to seven-flowered, the 
seapes furnished with lanceolate, falcate, acuminate, scariose sheaths. lowers large, 
sweet-scented, ivory-white, with an orange disk and crimson-purple spots on the lip; 
sepals and petals oblong-ligulate, acute, of a creamy white colour, the lateral sepals 
largest; lip white with an orange coloured central band, flabellately dilated from 
a narrowed base, three-cleft in front, the side lobes oblong directed forwards, white, 
with numerous violet-purple spots, the middle or front lobe cuneate-ovate, undulated, 
with an orange-coloured silky or velvety disk, spotted with purplish crimson; disk 
having near the base a callus which terminates abruptly in front, and is furnished 
on the outer side with velvety hairs. | Colwmn white behind, yellow at the edges, 
and in front having brownish purple spots at the base; caudicle provided in front, on 
both sides, with an awl-shaped extrorse process. 
Cymerprum’ Parrsntt, Reichenbach fil., MS. Herb. Kew; Id. Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
NS. L, 338, 566; x., 74; Id. Transactions of the Linnean Socvety, xxx., 144. 3 
The genus Cymbidium forms a small group of Orchids of which there are but 
| few species worthy of cultivation for ornamental purposes. That which we now figure 
a one of the best of them, and is a very rare and very beautiful plant, 
which has but seldom bloomed in this country. In*the summer of 1878 Mr. Swan, 
gardener to W. Leach, Esq., of Oakley Fallowfield, Manchester, flowered it for the 
- first time in Europe, and about the same time another specimen blossomed with | 
John Day, Esq., of Tottenham, which was subsequently purchased by us for 100 
guineas. This latter plant has again flowered, and our sketch was taken from it. 
6 Though a near relative of Cymbidium eburneum, this plant is considered by 
Reichenbach to be a distinct species, the points of difference being—the broader 
: shea: with more prominent nerves on the upper surface; the somewhat smaller 
ee “Mowers with shorter sepals and petals : and the different form of the segments of the 
se a together with some peculiarities in its callus and pubescence. It is one of the 
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a of India, having been originally discovered so long since as 1859, in 
poulmein, by the Rev: ©. Parish, who found Dendrobium crassinode at the same 
ume, The plants of both these fine Orchids, then collected, were lost in the Ganges, 
: 39 2 ymbidium was not seen again for many years. It appears to nate eee 
PS i Ered mtroduced shortly prior to 1874, since at that date living plants are 
