CYMBIDIUM TIGRINUM. 
[Puate 523.] 
Native of Tenasserim. 
Epiphytal. Psewdobulbs roundly ovoid, one inch or more in height, furrowed, 
invested when old with the remains of the sheathing base of the leaves, the younger 
ones bearing from two to five leaves. Leaves dark green, leathery, lanceolate- 
oblong, acuminate, from two to six inches long, recurved, slightly twisted. Scapes 
slender, produced from the base of the pseudobulbs, bearing from three to five large 
flowers. Sepals and petals linear-lanceolate, acute, two inches long; inside olive- 
green suffused with dull yellow, margined with vinous red, and covered at the bi 
with numerous minute red dots; outside chestnut-brown with a narrow greenish 
yellow margin; (ip clawed, oblong, three-lobed, the lateral lobes rounded, erect, 
yellow, covered inside with oblique purplish brown bands; mid lobe recurved, oblong, 
apiculate, white, marked with short transverse purplish brown streaks. 
Cympipium ticrinum, Parish, M.S. Hooker, Botanical Magazine, t. 5457 
Hooker, Flora of British India, vi. p. 9. Berkeley, Gardeners’ Chronicle, ard 
series, i, 1887, p. 736.  Veitch’s Manual of Orchidaceous Plants, Part 1X., p. 22. 
Linden, Les Orchidées Exotiques, p. 684. Williams, Orchid Grower's Manual, 
7th edition, p. 223. 
The genus Cymbidium contains a large number of species, although but 
comparatively few have found their way into Orchid collections, owing doubtless to 
the fact that many of them have inconspicuous dull-coloured flowers; on the other hand, 
the bulky size of some may account for their being excluded from the houses of 
amateurs who have but a limited space at command. Where space, however, 16 
only a secondary consideration, some Cymbidiums well repay the room allotted = 
them, by an abundance of showy flowers. Cymbidium tigrinum combines bi 
advantages of being compact in size, producing large and handsome a ¥ ea 
last & long time in perfection, and being of easy culture ; with all these qualities 
its favour it should find its way into even the smallest collection. a 
Cymbidium tigrinum has short ovate pseudobulbs, seldom exceeding — 
t-half inches in height; they bear two or more oblong-lanceolate mee he 
Which are dark green and slightly recurved. The scapes are slender one ee 
Producing four or five handsome, comparatively large flowers, , measuring i ga 
and a-half inches across. The sepals and petals are narrow — ed onl 
brown at the back, yellowish fawn shading into greenish yellow in MOU > 
the former erect and slightly twisted, the latter incurved. On the 8 
they are covered with minute dark brown spots at the base, and a narrow margia 
