li CxLviii. OECHIDBJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) [Oumbidium. 



ovary, sepals and petals lanceolate acute green streaked with red, lip 

 glabrous white or yellowish spotted with brown or red. Willd. 8p- PI- iv. 

 112; lAndl. Gen. Sf Sp. Orchid. 162; Bot. Beg. t. 1976 (var. estriata) ; 

 Sot. Mag. t. 1751. 0. ainense, Lindl. in Journ. lAnn. Soc. iii. 30 (? Willd.). 

 Epidendrum ensifolinm, Linn. Sp. PI. 90 ; Smith Spicileg. Bot. 22, t. 24 ; 

 p Bot. Sepos. t. 344. Limodorum ensatum, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 29 ; Kaempf. Iv. 

 t. 3. 



SiKKiM Himalaya; in the Terai. Khasia Hiils, alt. 2-4000 ft., J. D. U. 

 ^ T. T., &c. Cetion ; in the Central Province, Thvmites.—DlSTRlB. China, 

 Japan. 



The Khasia plant agrees very well with Koempfer's figure, which alone repre- 

 sents the leaves as narrowed into a long petiole. In the Bot. Bepos. the leaves are 

 only a span long and quite sessile. The Bot. Mag. represents a very small plant with 

 spotted lip, The Ceylon ensifolium has broader inflated lanceolate bracts. The 

 Sikkim specimen has sessile leaves, many flowers, and a white lip with pale brown 

 bars along the margin of the midlobe (much as in the Bot. Eeg. figure) and no spots. 

 I doubt 0. sinense differing from ensifolium. Lindley would combine them. 



BOUBTFUI. AND EXCIUDED SPECIES. 



C. ASSAMicuM, Liriden Gat. 1863 {name only), ex III. Sortie, xxviii. (1881) 95. 



C. CABNOSUM, Griff, Notul. iii. 339, is probably a HulopMa. 



0. OHiiOEANTHUM, Lindl. in Bot. Beg. 1843, Misc. 68 ; in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 iii. 29; Sot. Mag. t. 4907, is 0. variciferum, Reichi.f. in Sonpland. 1854, 91, an 

 Australian species. 



C. lEiDioiDBS, Don Prodr. 36, from Nepal, Wallich, doubtfully referred by 

 Lindley to C giganteum, is probably a Oaelogyne. 



CiMBiD. sp., Qriff. Notul. iii. 343 ; Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 319, is Tainia latifoUa. 

 The reference is omitted at vol. v. p. 820. 



41. CYFERORCKXS, Blume. 



Habit, foliage and inflorescence of Cymbidium, but racemes dense-fld., 

 perianth segments narrow and connivent below the middle or higher, lip 

 nearly straight, erect, epichile small and very much shorter than the 

 elongate hypoohile, and poUinia usually pyriform on a short subquadrate 

 gland. — Species 3, all Indian. 



Except by the narrow lip, long hypochile, and small usually orbicular epichile (or 

 midlobe), it is not easy to separate this genus from Cymbiditim, for the poUinia vary 

 much in form in both genera, and Cyp. Mastersii resembles very much Cymb. 



1. C. eleg'ans, Blume Rumph. iv. t. 47 ; Orchid. Archip. Ind. 93, 

 t. 48 ; raceme elongate, flowers 1-1^ in. long straw-cold, or white, lip 

 sparsely hairy towards the base, central ridges terminating below in 2 long 

 pubescent calli, capsule 1 in. Bot. Mag. t. 7007. Cymbidium elegans, Lindl. 

 in Wall. Gat. 7354 ; Gen. S,- Sp. Orchid. 163 ; Sert. Orchid, t. 14; in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. iii. 28 ; Beichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1876, i. 429. 0. densiflorum, 

 Qriff. Notul. iii. 337 (the Myrung plant only). 



SuBTBOPicAi Himalaya, alt. 4-7000 ft., from Nepal to Bhotan. Khasia Mis. 

 and MtrNNiPORE, alt. 4-6000 ft. 



Leaves li-2 ft. by -i-l in. Scape 6-18 in., curved, densely clothed with imbri- 

 cating compressed lanceolate acuminate sheaths 2-5 in. long; raceme pendulous 

 4-8 in. long ; rachis slender ; flowers densely imbricate, inodorous ; bracts small 

 membranous, acute ; sepals and petals linear-oblong, acute, tips concave ; lip as long 

 as the petals, very slightly recurved ; hypochile narrowly cuneate, side lobes spread- 

 ing, broadly oblong, obtuse, nearly as long as the suborbioular or obcordate undulate 

 midlobe ; column very slender, base hairy in front. Capsule turgidly ellipsoid. 



