also exhibited one, some nineteen years ago, 
CYRTOPODIUM CARDIOCHILUM. 
[Puate 176. ] 
Native Country not known. 
Terrestrial. Stems stout, fusiform, more or less curved, three to four feet in 
height, jointed, the internodes covered by the membranaceous sheathing bases of former 
leaves. Leaves dark green, numerous on strong erect growths, linear-lanceolate, 
acuminate, plicate, the bases investing the internodes of the stem, one-and-a-half to 
two feet long, and an inch-and-a-half in breadth, the plant thus becoming palm-like 
in character. Scapes radical, elongate, with a few distant bracts, terminating in a 
(forked) many-flowered raceme, the flowers seated each in the axil of an ovate 
concave boat-shaped membranaceous yellowish bract as long as the pedicels. Flowers 
showy, an inch-and-three-fourths in diameter, the principal branch of the raceme 
hearing eighteen or twenty blossoms, the buds globular, tinged with brown externally ; 
sepals spreading, roundish oblong, apiculate, narrowed at the base, yellow, flushed 
with green; petals of similar size and form, spreading, of a clear bright chrome- 
yellow ; lip sessile cordate, three-lobed, the lateral lobes roundish oblong or acina- 
ciform, elevated so as partially to hide the decurved greenish column, the front lobe 
deflexed and incurved, roundish cordiform, suddenly enlarged from the narrowe 
isthmus, concave, the front margin entire; at the base of the lip is a convex 
tushion-like warted crest. Colamn pale yellowish green, deflexed. 
CyRToPoDIUM CARDIOcHILUM, Lindley, Journal of the Horticultural Society of 
epi iv., 266; Reichenbach fil., in Walpers’ Annales Botanices Systematce, 
Cyrtopodium is a small genus of Orchids, and one which is not in great favour 
“mong Orchid growers, though some of the species when well grown are really noble 
objects, and are decidedly worth cultivating. That which we now illustrate and 
describe, C, cardiochilum, is a showy kind when in bloom, its branching spikes of 
Yellow flowers and noble bulbs, with palm-like foliage, bemg very effective, as well 
as distinct. in character. There is another species, C. punctatum, which is one of 
the most noble of Orchids for exhibition purposes. We exhibited this sree ve 
#89 at the Horticultural Society’s Shows, at Chiswick, &c., and at that time the 
late Dr, Lindley remarked what a grand plant it was for flower show purposes. We 
in the large conservatory at the Man- 
thester Botanical Gardens, and it was the admiration of all the visitors to the 
show, its noble growth and fine branching panicles of red-spotted yellow aoe 
having a very grand appearance. This we hope to figure at some future WE 
when we can meet with it in blossom. We have seen other fine example 
and hence, perhaps, 
exhibited, but the plants seem to have gone out of fashion, 
