CYMBIDIUM PENDULUM. 
[PLate 437}. 
Native of Northern India. 
Terrestrial. Psewdobulbs small, ovate, enveloped by the imbricating bases of the 
leaves. Leaves numerous, distichous, ensiform, erect, obliquely-retuse, thick and 
coriaceous in texture, nerveless, channelled above, carinate beneath, some two feet 
long, rich green. Racemes pendulous, many-flowered, furnished with minute bracts 
at the base of each peduncle, flowers somewhat laxly set. Sepals and petals linear- 
oblong, nearly equal, tinged with reddish brown towards the base; lip three-lobed, 
the lateral lobes acute, erect, but not enclosing the column, rosy red streaked with lines 
of purple, middle lobe oblong, recurved, white, bordered in front with rosy red, and 
bearing two yellow crests upon the white disc. Colwmn arching, stout, and of 
a richer deep purple hue. 
MBIDIUM PENDULUM, Lindley, Botanical Register, 1840, t. 25; Williams’ Orchid- 
Grower’s Manual, 6th ed., p. 235. 
EPIDENDRUM PENDULUM, Roxburgh, Plants of Coromandel, i., p. 35, t. 44. 
It is now upwards of fifty years since this plant was first introduced to the 
gardener’s attention in this country, so that until quite recently, when the genus 
got a fresh start with Cymbidium Lowianum from Burmah, it was a difficult task 
to find this plant in any garden, large or small; but at the present moment a good 
variety is sure to find an admirer, for blooming as it does through the autumn 
months, it serves to connect the summer and winter bloomers, and coming in 
just at a happy season, when flowers of any kind are specially welcome, its charm- 
ing blooms are doubly appreciated. For the opportunity of figuring this fine variety 
of C. pendulum we are indebted to the kindness of J. Wilson, Esq., Bantaskin, 
Falkirk, N.B., in whose extensive collection this beautiful old plant flowered admirably 
in the month of September, 1888, and, we have no doubt, in the following 
‘seasons it has been equally beautiful. 
Cymbidium pendulum is a bold-growing evergreen plant, which requires a great 
deal of bad usage before it succumbs. We well remember having some plants 
of the kind several years ago, which were subjected to a course of treatment 
which would have quite destroyed any other plant, and the same specimens are 
now thriving and doing well, which gives a convincing proof that some of the 
Orchids that come to this country last for a number of years. The plant is said 
to come from Sylhet and other places in Northern India, and grows well in a 
medium heat, but it does not object to a pretty strong heat during its growing 
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