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volume of this work, pl. 222, refers to that loosely defined genus of the 
old authors, and therefore we think it well now to supply in its place the 
description given by BrntHam, which is far more accurate. Moreover, we 
must take the species figured under pl. 222 out of the Cymbidiums, and rank 
it in the allied genus Cyperorchis, which is distinguished by the far more 
dense scapes, by the segments of the perianth being considerably narrower, 
erect and converging together at least to the middle; by the lip being nearly 
right, erect with a much smaller terminal lobe; by the rostellum being far 
more prominent and beak-shaped ; and by the pollinia being narrower, pyriform, 
with a nearly quadrangular gland. 
As restricted by the more recent botanists, the genus includes still at 
least thirty species, the majority growing on the hilly parts of south-eastern 
Asia; a few species are disseminated in Australia, tropical Africa; in some 
isles of the Pacific Ocean, and one species is found in Japan. 
The native country of Cymbidium grandiflorum is the eastern Himalaya, 
where it is found between 5000 and 7500 feet elevation. 
It is characterized by its long acute leaves, reaching to a length of 24 inches, 
and 1 to 1 1/2 broad, strongly striped with alternately pale and bright green lines 
along their sheathing base. The stout, more or less drooping scape, termi- 
nates in a raceme of 7 to 12 very large flowers, measuring no less than 5 and 
even sometimes 6 inches across in some forms. The spreading lanceolate 
oblong and acute petals and sepals, are uniformly pale green in the type, 
while in the variety punctatum they bear at their base a number of dark purple 
spots. The lip, somewhat villose on both sides, is tinged with very pale yellow 
in the species, and bears some purple blotches, rather large at the apex, smaller 
and more aumerous towards the base; while in the variety its colour is a 
somewhat brighter yellow, spotted with purple dots in a nearly regular way; it 
is somewhat contracted at its base, forming a claw with the edges connate 
to the column up to 2 3/4 to 3 1/4 inches; the front lobe is nearly rounded, 
wavy and nearly lobulate at the margin; the disc bears two longitudinal very 
hairy plates, extending from the base nearly to the base of the front lobe. 
The species flowered for the first time in English gardens at the beginning 
of 1866, and was immediately described by ReicHENBACH as a new species under 
the name of C. Hookerianum; but Sir JosepH Hooker, to whom the species was 
dedicated, observed himself, in his Flora of British India (1890), that it is identical 
with C. grandiflorum, described and figured by Grirrirx fifteen years before. We 
must therefore keep the latter name. 
The variety which we now figure appeared this year in the houses of 
L’HorricuLture INTERNATIONALE, of Brussels. 
A. CoGniaux. 
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