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CYMBIDIUM TRACYANUM uaorr. 
TRACY'S CYMBIDIUM. 
CYMBIDIUM. Vide Lindenia, IX, p. 13. 
Cymbidium Tracyanum. Foliis elongatis, lineari-ligulatis, acutis, subtus distincte carinatis ; pedunculo robus- 
tissimo, deflexo, 16-20-floro, foliis longiore; floribus amplis; bracteis minutis ; sepalis late oblongis, acutis, dorsali 
superne incurvo, lateralibus patulis; petalis patulis, anguste oblongo-ligulatis, acutis; labello petalis satis breviore, 
distincte trilobato, lobis lateralibus erectis ovato- -triangularibus acutis margine denticulatis, lobo terminali late oblongo 
reflexo margine laciniato-crispo, disco a basi usque ultra medium carinis geminis carnosis dense villosis instructo; 
columna elongata, incurva, exalata. 
Cymbidium Tracyanum (Traceyanum) Hort.; Gard. Chron., ser. 3, VII, p. 702 et 718 (1890); IX, p. 137, 
fig. 34 (1891). — Fourn. of Hortic., XXI, p. 535, fig. 71 (1890). — Journ. des Orchid., 1, p. 326 (1891). — Veriton, 
Man. Orch. Pl., part. IX, p. 22, cum icon. (1893). — L. Linp., Les Orchid. exot., p. 684 (1894). — WILLIams, 
Orch. Grow. Man., edit. 7, p. 224, cum icon. (1894). — Orchid Rev., III, p- 360 (1895). 
his splendid species, the flowers of which exceed in size those of all 
its cognates, is still extremely rare in cultivation. The first plant 
was introduced some years ago by MH. A. Tracy, of Twickenham 
(England); it had been placed with a series of Cymbidium Lowianum, and 
had been mistaken for one of these plants, the leaves being the same. It was 
only at the end of 1890, when it flowered for the first time, that the confusion 
was found out; the plant was exhibited at the Meeting of the Royal Horticural 
Society held on the 9" December 1890 and obtained a First-Class Certificate. 
A few days after, it was sent for sale to Messrs Prorueroz & Morris in 
London, where it was bought by M. le baron Scurogper, of Bis Dell, for 
75 guineas. 
(Cr Tracyanum i is allied to C. radi Grirr. (C. Hookerianum Reus. F F.), 
a remarkable variety of the latter is figured in this collection (vol. IX, pl. 389), 
and certain authors seem inclined to connect them as a geographical form. 
There is indeed, a certain resemblance in the shape and size of the flowers; 
but they differ extremely in colour, for C. grandiflorum ‘in its typical form, 
has yellowish — green sepals and petals, and the lip is thickly blotched with 
purple. The habitat of the latter is Nepaul and Sikkim; whereas C. Tracyanum 
most probably comes from Burmah, the habitat of C. Lowianum, as it was 
introduced with the latter. 
Other authors are rather inclined to consider it as a hybrid, perhaps the 
intercrossing of C. grandiflorum and C. giganteum, for it has almost the peculiar 
coloration of the latter, but the flowers are much larger. This hypothesis is 
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