CYMBIDIUM DEVONIANUM. 
[ PLATE 170] 
Native of India: Khasya Hills. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs small, roundish-oblong, clustered, invested by the dilated 
sheathing bases of the leaf-stalks. Leaves several, evergreen, broadly lanceolate, with 
a prominent keel beneath, about a foot in length, leathery in texture. Peduneles 
radical, twelve to eighteen inches long, pendulous, clothed at the base with crowded 
dark brown sheathing scales, and bearing a drooping raceme of rather attractive 
though scarcely showy blossoms. Flowers about one and a half inch across, pale 
yellowish olive-green, with a purplish lip; sepals oblong-lanceolate, acute, pale olive- 
een, with about five faintly dotted lines of dark purple, the lateral ones not so 
tinctly dotted; petals shorter, ovate acute, of the same colour as the sepals, but 
more distinctly dotted; lip ovate obtuse, shorter than the petals, the tip of the 
front lobe recurved, purplish red, with a large blotch of deep purple on each side 
the throat near the margin, furrowed down the centre. Column small, green, bent 
down on the base of the lip. | 
CyMBIDIUM Drvonranum, Paxton, Magazine of Botany, x., 97; Lindley, Gardener 8 
Chronicle, 1843, 431. 
There are but few species of this genus that are really good and effective for 
ornamental purposes, and yet some of them are most chaste and beautiful. We 
have already figured two meritorious ones, and there are others, such as Cymbidium 
eburneum, C. Mastersii, C. Lowii, &c., which we hope to introduce to our readers 
mm due time. The species now before us is a very pretty little plant, not s0 
showy as those just named, but it is both elegant and of small-growth, producing 
abundantly its well-furnished spikes of flowers, which, we fancy, are well worth the 
attention of cultivators, being so very distinct from those of other kinds. Our 
drawing was taken from the grand and extensive collection of W. Lee, Esq., 
omen Leatherhead. The plant flowered last year, which was the first time we 
ad seen it, for it is quite rare. Mr. Woolford, the gardener, grows it in the 
Cattleya house. | 3 | 
__ Cymbidium Devoniunum is an evergreen species, with small pseudobulbs and 
- — foliage, which grows about ten inches high. The flower-stalks proceed 
m the side of the bulbs, after they have finished their growth. The sepals and 
Petals are of a pale green, spotted with purplish brown, and the lip is crimson, 
