Cyrtopera.'] orchidejE. 357 



angular caudicle. — Tall herbs. Barren stems leafy, on a succulent or falae- 

 bulbous base. Scapes leafless, bearing a raceme of showy flowers. 

 A small genus, dispersed oyer S. Asia, Africa, and S. America. 



1. C. flava, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. 189 ; Boyle, Illustr. t. 88. Leaves 

 long-lanceolate. Scapes 2 to 3 ft. high, with a long raceme of large yellow 

 flowers. Sepals pointed, IJ in. long. Petals as long, but broader and less 

 pointed. Concave base of the labeUum projecting 4 fines from the pedicel. — 

 C. Cullenii, Wight, Ic. t. 1754. 

 Hongkong, Wright. On tUe adjacent continent, and in the momitains of N. India. 



18. CYMBIDITJM, Sw. 

 Sepals and petals nearly equal, spreading. LabeUum sessile, free or shortly 

 connate with the base of the column, concave, entire or 3-lobed. Column 

 erect. Anther terminal, lid-like. Pollen-masses 2, usually 2-lobed, waxy, 

 almost sessile, on a triangular base. — Ehizome creeping or stems tufted. 

 Leaves radical, or on false-bulbs, or on barren stems. Scapes usually leafless. 

 Mowers in racemes, usually large. 



A considerable tropical and subtropical genus, common to the New and the Old World, 

 and extending in Africa to the southern extremity. 



4. C. ensifolium, Sw.; lAndl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. 162; Bot. Mag. t. 

 1751 ; Bot. Reg. t. 1976. Leaves radical, tufted, linear or linear-lanceolate, 

 often above a foot long, rather stiff. Scapes usually shorter, leafless except 

 sheathing scales, with 3 to 6 distant flowers. Bracts much shorter than the 

 ovary; Sepals about 1 in. long, oblong-lanceolate, of a dirty white, green, or 

 yellowish, with purple streaks. Petals rather smaller and less coloured. La- 

 beUum oval-oblong, entire or obscurely 3-lobed, recm-ved towards the top, 

 greenish-yeUow with spots. 



On rocks. Champion ; also Mance. Not known out of S. China. 



C. mphiifolium, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 529, is also included in Keicheubach's enumeration of 

 Hance's Hongkong Orchidete. I have not seen the specimens, but believe it to be only a 

 variety of C. ensifolium, with the flowers wholly yellowish-green, without streaks or spots. 



14. COTTONIA, Lindl. 



Sepals spreading, obovate. Petals rather smaller. LabeUum concave, con- 

 stricted in the middle, the upper half 2-lobed, the lower half with 2 tubercles 

 at the base. Column erect, with membranous edges. Anther terminal, lid- 

 like. PoUen-masses either 2 and 2-lobed, or 4 ; caudicles fiUform. — Stems 

 leafy, succulent. Flowers in axUlary or leaf-opposed racemes. 



A small tropical Asiatic genus. 



1. C. Championi, Lindl. in Kew Journ. Bot. vii. 35, and Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. iii. 39. A small epiphyte. Leaves distichous, Unear-oblong, entire or 

 notched at the summit, 1^ to 2 in. long. Eacemes leaf-opposed, few-flowered.' 

 Flowers yeUow, inconspicuous, with a pale purple column. Sepals and petals 

 nearly equal. LabeUum " half-boatshaped, short, with a process at the ex- 

 tremity ending in 2 setiform forks;" 



On Victoria Peak, Champion. Also in Khasia. Beichenbach (Seem. Bot. Her. 419) men- 

 tions a plant without flowers, which he thinks might be the Sarcanihiu rostratttt, Lindl. 



