58 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [MarcH, 1918 
the idea that they form a distinct genus, for which the name Cymbidiella — 
is proposed. This will serve to indicate its affinity, as in the case of 
another remarkable Madagascar genus, Eulophiella. Cymbidium is a a 
rather large terrestrial genus, extending from India and Japan through the ~ 
Malay Archipelago to Australia, and its characters are well known. 
Cymbidiella differs in its epiphytic habit, and its general aspect and floral 
structure are quite different, the lip being strongly three-lobed, with rounded 
erect side lobes, and an ample, recurved, obcordate or obovate front lobe, — 
' giving quite a different appearance to the flower. The three species have — 
the same general character. 
CYMBIDIELLA FLABELLATA (Rolfe) is the earliest-known species of the — 
genus, having been figured by Thouars nearly a century ago (Orch. Iles 
Afr., tt. 39, 40) from Madagascar materials. It was afterwards transferred — 
to Cymbidium by Lindley (Gen. & Sp. Orch., p. 167), but no specimen was 
available for comparison until Humblot met with the plant, n. 382 of his” 
dried collection being clearly identical with Thouars’ figure. Thouars 
described the colours as green, purple, and yellow, and the purple of the _ 
front of the lip is clearly shown in the dried specimen. It is much more — 
slender than C. rhodochila, and has a creeping rhizome and a paniculate — 
inflorescence. 
CyMBIDIELLA HuMBLoTiI (Rolfe) was also collected by Humblot, in — 
Madagascar, it being n. 492 of his dried collection. He may have sent 
home living plants, at all events one flowered in the collection of Mr. C.4 
Ingram, Elstead House, Godalming, in 1892, and received a Botanical — 
Certificate from the R.H.S. It was described as Cymbidium Humblotii 
(Rolfe in Gard. Chron., 1892, ii. p. 8). According to Warpur, who also | 
collected it, it grows on the stems of a palm, Raphia madagascariensis. It 
is a much more robust plant than the preceding, and has a stout, creeping E 
rhizome, and an ample, much-branched panicle, with numerous green and 
black flowers, which strongly recall those of Coelogyne pandurata. It was 
dicovered much earlier by Curtis, when collecting for Messrs. Veitch, 4 
proved by a dried specimen from his collection. 
CYMBIDIELLA RHODOCHILA (Rolfe), the fine species figured on the 
preceding page, was introduced, in 1900, by M. G. Warpur, who states that 
it always grows in masses on Platycerium, on the branches of high trees _ 
near the rivers, and on the higher slopes of the forest, at an elevation of | 
1800 to 2000 feet, consequently it prefers a moderate degree of humidity 
It flowered at Kew in May, 1902, producing a scape OV 
two feet long, with about twenty flowers. It was described under the name 
of Cymbidium rhodochilum (Rolfe in Orch. Rev., ix. p. 10; x. p. 84), and — 
afterwards figured (l.c., xiv. p. 209, fig. 25). The pseudobulbs are tufted 
and much light. 
instead of creeping, and the flowers are light green, densely spotted wit 
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