PLATE DCLI. 



CYMBIDIUM ANDERSON 11. 



Anderson s Cymhidiiim. 



CLASS XX. ORDER L 



GYNANDRIA DIANDRTA. Chives on the Pointals. Two Chives. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla 4-5-petala, erecta vel patens, label- || Blossom 4-5-petalled, upright or spreading, 

 lo basi concavo. Anthera opercularis, de- li with a nectary concave at the base. Tips 



cidua. 1| covered, deciduous. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Cymbidium caule elato ; foliis vaginalis, lan- 

 ceolatis, costatis : floribus in spicis longis 

 ramosis : corollis flavis. 



CvMBiDiuM with a tall stem: leaves sheathed, 

 lance-shaped, and ribbed. Flowers grow ia 

 long branclied spikes : blossoms yellow. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A flower without the nectarium. 



2. The nectarium. 



Our figure represents a nondescript species of Cymbidium communicated to us by T. Evans, Esq., in 

 whose collection at Stepney it flowered last summer (181 1) for the first time in this country. We have 

 given it the specific title oi Andersonii, as a tribute of respect to the late Dr. Anderson, by whom it was 

 introduced in J 801, with many other fine new plants, from the botanic garden in the island of St. Vincent, 

 and may be considered as a valuable addition lo the hot stove, from its great height and numerous large 

 yellow blossoms. 



*^* In the description of the Alstromeriaedulis of our last Number, Cape of Good Hope is inserted instead of Cape 

 Francois, a mistake occasioned by our writing it off in a hurry along witli some pages of the Erica, a tribe of plants 

 (with few exceptions) all natives of the Cape of Good Hope. We detected the error as soon as printed, but did not 

 think it of sufficient consequence to cancel the page and prolong its publication, as it had already been too long delayed; 

 and should have only noticed it in the Errata at the end of the Volume, (which is nearly terminated,) were it not for 

 the partial criticism in the Monthly Magazine given by an interested friend to the Botanical Magazine, who probably 

 imagines the sale of our work is detrimental to that publication, and remindb us of the story of the man with a very 

 short nose, who was always railing at the long nose of another person ; which led to the conclusion that he thought it 

 was made at the expense of his short one. But as our readers may think these observations long enough, they will 

 doubtless think those of the botanical report still more so, as in the comments on the Protea radiata, fifteen lines are 

 nearly filled with technical phrases, in an ineiTectual attempt to explain the meaning of two botanical terms which he 

 allows to be differently accepted by different authors, and at last leaves off just where he began. But meeting with a 

 better opportuniiy in Alstromcria edulis, he has not only made the most of that, but rather more than enough of it, 

 verifying the old adage, that those who can make something of nothing will make a little go a great way. 



