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PL. CCCLXXXIX. 
CYMBIDIUM GRANDIFLORUM carr. var. PUNCTATUM cosy. 
THE LARGE-FLOWERED CYMBIDIUM, DOTTED VARIETY. 
Cymbidium Swartz. Sepala subaequalia, libera, patentia, lateralia interdum basi sub labello brevissime connata. 
Petala sepalis similia vel paullo minora. Labellum ad basin columnae sessile, erectum, basi concavum, trilobum ; 
lobi laterales latiusculi, erecti, columnam laxe amplectentes, medius patens vel recurvus, indivisus, disco varie bila- 
mellato. Columna longiuscula, semiteres, curvula, exalata vel anguste bialata, apoda; clinandrium parum prominulum, 
truncatum vel obliquum, Anthera terminalis, opercularis, incumbens, valde convexa vel late semiglobosa, unilocularis 
vel imperfecte bilocularis; pollinia 2, late subglobosa, cerea, profunde sulcata vel e duobus sibimet arcte applicatis 
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uno minore conflata, in anthera collateraliter contigua, app parva transversa vel divaricato-bil connexa, 
anthera dehiscente mediante appendicula glandulae squamiformi transversae affixa. Capsula oblonga, saepe majuscula, 
interdum breviter rostrata. 
Herbae epiphyticae, caulibus foliatis abbreviatis cum foliorum basibus plus minusve in pseudobulbum incrassatis. 
Folia saepe longissima, coriacea, venis elevatis percursa, vel breviora magis carnosa laevioraque; vaginae basi dila- 
tatae in caule imbricatae, vetustiores saepe ad fibras diu persistentes reductae. Pedunculi vel scapi inter folia vel ad 
basin caulis oriundi, longi, simplices vel rarissime ramosi, basi vaginis laxis interdum fere in folia brevia productis 
stipati. Flores majusculi, laxe racemosi, breviter pedicellati, racemis haud raro elongatis pendulisque. Bracteae breves. 
Cymbidium Swartz Nov. Act. Soc. Sc. Upsal., VI, p. 70 (1799) et in K. Vetenst. Acad. Nya. Handl. Stockh., 
XXI, p. 236 (1800), pro parte. — LinpL. Gen. and Spec. Orch., 161 (part.). — Reus. F. in WALP. Ann. Bot., VI, 622. 
— BENTH. et Hook. Gen. Plant., UI, p. 536. — Hook. F. Fl. Brit. Ind., VI, p. 8. — Verrcu, Man. Orch. Pl., 
part, IX, p. 10. 
Tridorchis BLUME Orchid. Arch. Ind., go (1858). 
Cymbidium grandiflorum, Foliis elongatis, lineari-lanceolatis, acutis, vaginis valde striatis; pedunculo robustis- 
‘simo, decurvo, racemoso, 7-12-floro ; bracteis minutis; floribus amplis; sepalis petalisque stellato-patulis, oblongo- 
lanceolatis, acutis, viridibus, petalis paullo angustioribus; labello flavescente intus purpureo-maculato, utrinque velutino, 
margine breviter ciliato, lobis lateralibus basi sut datis seu aequalibus antice angulatis, lobo antico late ovato 
subcordato margine crispo sublobulato, disco a basi usque paullo ultra medium lamellis geminis velutinis instructo. 
Cymbidium grandiflorum Grirr, Notul. Il, p. 342 (1851) et Ic. Plant. Asiat., t. 321. — Hook. r. Fl. Brit. 
Ind., V1, p. 12. — Gard. Chron., ser. 3, XI (1892), p. 267. — VerrcH Man. Orchid. Pl., part. IX, p. 18. — 
Fourn. of Hortic., 1893, p. 153, fig. 27. 
C. Hookerianum Reus. F. in Gard. Chron., 1866, p. 7. — BATEM. in Bot. Mag., t. 3574 et Sec. Century 
Orch. Pl., t. 187. —, Du Buyss. L’Orchidoph., p. 267. — WiLi1aMs Orch. Grow. Man., edit. 6, p. 233. — Watson, 
Orchids, p. 149. 
C. giganteum (part.) LINDL. in Journ. Lin. Soc., III, p. 29 (non WALLICH). 
C. giganteum var. Hookerianum Bors. Orchid. p. 119 (1893). 
Cymbidium spec. GrirF. Itin. Not., p. 145, n° 698. 
Crescit in Himalaya orientali ad Nepalia, Sikkim et Bhotan, altit. 1700-2500 m. 
Var. punctatum, Sepala petalaque flavo-viridia, intus inferne purpureo-punctata. Labellum flavo-aurantiacum, 
punctis purpureis numerosis notatum. 
Var. punctatum Coan. in Fourn. des Orchid., 4me année, p. 76 (1893). — The Orchid Review, I, p- 200. 
he genus Cymbidium, as it was founded by Swarrz, and admitted 
by WILLDENow, and more recently by LinpLey, included a mixture of 
somewhat heterogeneous species, of which the greater part have since 
been transferred to other genera. The generic des¢ription given in the second 
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