10 cxLViii. ORCHiDEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Cymbidium. 



TBifASSEEiM; on Moolee-it, alt. 6000 ft., Parish. Buema; on the Siam frontier, 

 Berkeley, 



Pseudobulbs 1-1^ in., turgidly ovoid, top contracted. Leaves 3-5 in., recurved, 

 petiole rarely 1 in. Scape suberect, with the raceme 6-8 in., 3-5-fid. ; sheathsfew j 

 bracts small, ovate-lanceolate ; pedicel with ovary 1-1^ in. ; flowers 2-2^ in. diam. ; 

 sepals linear, subacute, dull yellow -green ; petals subsimilar ; lip narrowed at the 

 base, -white spotted with red, side lobes rounded erect, midlobe oblong, tip rounded 

 apiculate ; anther smooth j poUinia 3 angular, gland broadly triangularly obtuse 

 above, aides acute. 



5. C. Devonianum, Faxt. Mag. Sot. x. 97, cum ic. ; leaves stoutly 

 petioled tticMy coriaceous, petiole articulate, scape with raceme as long 

 as the leaves drooping very many-fld., bracts very small, pedicels very 

 short, disk of lip with two short ridges with swollen tips between the 

 side lobes. Warner Orchid. Alb. t. 170; Reichh.f. in Gard. Chron. 1881, 

 i. 395. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, Mamn. Khasia Hills, Gibson; on KoUong rock, alt. 5000 ft., 

 J. D. S. S( T. T. 



Stem very stout at the base, obscurely pseudobulbous. Leaves several, 6-12 in., 

 narrowed into a petiole 3-5 in. Scape very stout, 8-10 in. ; basal sheaths IJ in., 

 imbricating; bracts i in. j pedicel with ovary i-| in. j flowers 1^ in. diam.; sepals 

 oblong-lanceolate and petals green speckled with red, or pale reddish yellow streaked 

 with red ; lip short, side lobes rounded narrowing into a small triangular ovate 

 obtuse midlobe, purple with a darker blotch on each side lobe ; anther and pollen as 

 in 0. eiurneum, var. Farishii. Capsule 1^ in., turgidly ellipsoid. — The flowers appear 

 to vary extremely in colour. Ileichenbach describes the sepals and petals as light 

 brown with dull mauve streaks and blotches. In a specimen from Assam the tip of 

 the lip is white with purple spots. 



*** Leaves loriform, very long, tip broadly unequally 2-lobed. 



6. C. aloifolium, Swartz in Nov. Act. JJipsal. vi. 73; m Schrad. 

 Journ. JBot. 1779, ii. 218 ; racemes elongate pendulous or decurved many-fld., 

 flowers 1^-2 in. broad, sepals and petals linear-oblong subacute, epichile 

 broadly oblong or suborbicular equalling or shorter than the hypochile, 

 disk with 2 curved thick lamellae. Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 458 ; Lindl. Gen 

 Sr Sp. Orchid. 165; Wall. Cat. 7352 0; Walp. Ann. vi. 624 (excl. Ic. 

 Wight). 0. pendulum, Swartz, Sf Lindl. II. c. ; Walp. I. c. (excl. cit. Bot. 

 Reg.) ; Roxl. Cor. PI. i. 85, t. 44 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 458. 0. crassifolium. Wall. 

 Cat. 7357. 0. Mannii, Reichb. f. in Flora 1872, 274. Epidendrum aloi- 

 folium, lAnn. 8p. PI. 953. brides Borassi, Smith in Bees Cyclop. 

 Suppl. — Rheede Sort. Mai. xii. t. 8. 



Teopical Himalaya, from East Nepal eastwards. Assam and southwards to 

 Tenasseeim and the Andaman Islands. (? Malabar, Mheeie.) — Disteib. China ? 



Stem short, stout. Leaves 1-3 ft. by f-2 in. Saceme 12-18 in.; flowers 



variable in colour and size, usually dull purplish brown with pale borders. I am 



much puzzled with this and the following species, which appear to differ, in so far 

 as all my copious materials show, only in the comparative length of the epichile and 

 hypochile of their lips, and in their geographical ranges, aloifolium being strictly 

 northern and eastern, and iicolor as strictly western. These characters would be 

 absolute were it not that Rheede's figure of the Malabar plant has the lip of 

 aloifolium. According to drawings in Herb. Kew and Calcutta, 0. aloifolium is 

 very variable in other respects, and three varieties are distinguishable. 1. Racemes 

 shorter suberect fewer-fld., sepals and petals obtuse dull purple with yellowish pale 

 margins. This exactly resembles the Chinese ? G. aloifolium, Lodd. Bot. Oat. t. 967 ; 

 Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. iii. 69, t. 383.-2. Flowers larger, sepals and petal sub- 



