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GENUS XXXVI. CTMBIDIUM. 



Ciynandrla monandria. Sex: S^st: 



Derw. The diminutive of Cymha,. a boat, alluding to the shape 

 of the lip. 



G-EN. Chae. Perianth flattened out: sepals and petals almost 

 equal, free : lip sessile, free, without a spur, concave, articulated 

 ■with the base of the column or slightly connate, undivided or 

 3-lobed : column erect, half-terete : anther 2-oelled : pollen masses 

 2, usually posticously 2-lobed, sub-sessUe into a somewhat triangular 

 gland. 



(1) C. OTPEKirOLIirM. (] 



Ident. Lindl. gen. and sp. p. 163. 



Spec. Chab. Leaves Hnear-ensiform, acute, striated, 3-ribbed, 

 longer than the straight scapes : bracts leafy, acumiaate, longer 

 than the ovaries : sepals and petals linear-oblong, acute, striated : 

 lateral lobes of the 3-lobed channelled lip acute, intermediate one 

 ovate, refracted : plates almost parallel, continuous : flowers green 

 purplish at the base. Up pale green, plate 2 — 4 times purple- 

 spotted. 



Silhet. 



(2)' C. GIGJJSfTEUM. (Wall.) 



Ident. Lindl. 1. c. 



Syn. Limodorum longifoUum, Bueh. 



Spec. Chab. Leaves ensiform, striated, acute, longer than the 

 drooping many-flowered raceme : bracts minute : sepals oblong and 

 with the Haear-lanceolate petals acute : lateral lobes of the 3-lobed 

 lip small, acute, pubescent at the base, intermediate one much larger, 

 ovate, acute, undulated, bearded in the middle: plates arched, 

 connate at the apex, hairy: flowers brownish-purple, margined 

 with yellow. 



Khasia hills, flowering in March. 



(3) C. AioxFOiiuii. (Swari%.J 

 Swartz Nov. Act. TJps. vi. 73,— Lindl. 1. c. p. 165. 



Syn. Epidendrum aloifoHum, lAnn. sp. 1350. — ^Aerides Borassi, 

 Eees Cycl. sitppl. 



mgrao. Bot. Mag. xi. t. 387.— Kheede Mai. xii. t. 8.— Wight's 

 Icon. t. 1687-8, 



