CYMBIDIUM AFFINE 



[Plate 140.1 



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iN'aUve of Assam and Kliasya. 



produced. / 



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Epiphytal. Acaulescent, with thick fleshy roots, forming a short rootstock, from 

 which dense tufts of graceful erectly spreading foliage is 

 distichous, erecto-patent, elongate, linear lorate, acute, channeled, thrcc-fourtlis of 

 inch broad, dark green. Scaj)e stout, green, having just beneath the inflorescence 

 two or three loosely sheathing leafy bracts, ; raceme six to eight- llowcTcd, decurvod, 

 terminal, each flower having a short ovate acute bract at the base of its 

 green pedicel. Floivers about two and a half inches broad, and as much in depth 

 ivory-white, with a pleasant scent of almonds ; sepals linear-oblong, somewhat broadiT 

 upwards, acute, half an inch broad, the dorsal one incurved, and arcliing forwards 

 over the lip, the lateral ones two inches long, somewhat widened at the base and 

 apex, the rounded bases united with the base of the lip, to form a short l)hmt 



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chin 



petals linear, about as long as the sepals, but distinctly narrower, onc-f 



of an inch wide, acute ; lip three-lobed, saccate at the base, the side lobes folded 

 close to the column, the front 



edge produced rounded 



and slightly spreadin^, 



ipotted, as is also the mouth of the tube, with pale magenta, the front lobe hairy, half 



inch long, with a narrowed cLaw-like base, ovate, with a wavy margin, white, 



with a central straight oblonor, and lateral divergent blotches of ma<?cntn, the central 



an 



one contmued into a yellowish streak 



yellow crest of two abruptly 

 into two yellow line 



hich is produced backwards to the dccf 



ited papillose j 



Inch are further 



tinued 



Col 



hite. one and a half inch 



lon.2:, curved, winged. 



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Lindley, Contrihut 



to the Orchidology of India, in Journal 



AFFINE, Griffith. Notidce ad Plantas Asiaticas, iii., 336, t. 291 ; 

 according to 



innean Society, iii., 28; Reichenbach fil 

 Floral Magazine, t. 



in Gardeners' Ch 



N.S., X., 810 



346. 



Cymbidium mickomeson, Lindley, Jc 



Reichenhach 



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Society 



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m., 



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Cyrnhidium 

 beautiful species 



That 



though 



a sm 



genus 



of Orchids, contains within its limits some 



considerably in colour; indeed, most of them are 



growmg 



varying 



•hich we now illustrate is a 



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chaste and pretty sp 



worth 

 and is 



still quite rare ; ^ 

 grand specimen here 

 Lake House, Cheltenhan 



ery few plants having come under 6ur notice. 



AV 



received the 



figured 



from the fine collection 



f G. Kevile W} 



ho takes a g 



Orchids, and from whom at different times 



have 



att, Esq., 

 of good 

 ed some fine cut specimens. 



interest in the cult 



especially of the forms of Cattley 



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