CYMBIDIUM LOWIANUM VIRIDE. 
[PuaTE 527. | 
Native of Burmah. 
Terrestrial.  Pseudobulbs oblong, somewhat compressed, invested with the 
sheathing bases of the leaves. Leaves ligulate, acute, deep green, keeled on the 
under surface, from two to three feet in length. Spike many-flowered, drooping, 
from three to four feet in length. Flowers four inches across or more ; sepals 
and petals lanceolate-oblong acute, yellowish green, veined with a deeper shade of 
ereen, keeled at the back; Jip three-lobed, side lobes erect, not enclosing the 
column, pale yellowish green; front lobe sub-deltoid, undulated at the edges, the 
anterior part bright golden yellow margined with white, base white with a median 
streak of yellow from the anterior portion; throat white, the raised fleshy plates 
on the disk white slightly tinged with yellowish green. Column yellowish green, 
the anterior portion margined with yellow; pollina white. 
Cymprpium Low1anum, H. G. Reichenbach fil., Gardeners’ Chronicle, N.8., 
xi, 1879, p. 404, fig. 56. Floral Magazine, N.S., t. 353. Veitch’s Manual of 
Orchidaceous Plants, Part ix., p. 19, with woodcut. L’Orchidophile, 1885, p. 145, 
with woodcut. Reichenbachia, 2nd series, i, t. 53. Warner, Select Orchidaceous 
Plants, iii., t. 31. Williams, Orchid Album, x., t. 471. Linden, Les Orchidées 
Exotiques, p. 447, fig. 70. Wilhams, Orchid Grower's Manual, 7th edition, 
p. 222. 
Cymprpium cicanteum Low1anum, H. G. Reichenbach jil., Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
N.S, 1877, vii, p. 685. Hooker, Flora of British India, vi., p. 18. 
Cympipium LowiAnum vVIRIDE, Hort. supra. 
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Our present subject although a deservedly popular plant and a frequent 
denizen of our Orchid houses, has not hitherto produced many varieties, and any 
new form showing a marked departure from the type is therefore always welcome, 
and will be eagerly looked for by Orchid lovers. The few varietal forms recorded 
are Cymbidium Lowianum concolor, C. Lowianum Mandaianum, and C. Lowianum 
superbissimum. To these may now be added the subject of our illustration, 
©. Lowianum viride, which flowered in March, 1896, in the collection of 
A. H. Smee, Esq., The Grange, Carshalton, to whom we are indebted for the 
material from which our plate has been prepared. 
Our present subject differs from the type in having the sepals and petals 
of a more decided and uniform green, while the lip is without a trace of 
crimson or maroon on the middle lobe, this being instead of a bright golden 
yellow; the flowers are also more crowded on the spikes than those of 
the original form. 
