THB GENUS CYMBIDIUM 
under Cyperorchis. This change is how- 
ever seldom recognised in gardens, and, 
as the two groups have produced inter- 
mediate forms, it is not important. 
The genus is widely spread 
Habitat. , ° , . .I t 
through Australia, Japan, 
Madagascar, Malaya, and other regions, 
but interest centres in the strong and 
free-growing kinds with showy flowers 
from the Himalayas, Burmah, and the 
highlands of India. In this section (un- 
less otherwise stated) the growth of the 
plants is similar. All have ovate, com- 
pressed pseudo-bulbs, more or less de- 
veloped and furnished with bright green, 
lanceolate leaves, gracefully arranged. 
They are mostly epiphytic, but — grow- 
ing as large masses among vegetable 
deposits or clumps of Ferns — their 
needs under cultivation approach those 
of terrestrial Orchids. 
Cymbidium Dayanum. — A pretty and grace- 
ful kind from Sikkim, with long, narrow leaves, 
and decurved racemes of white flowers, striped 
with purplish-crimson. Syns. C. Simonsianum, 
and C. pulcherrimum. 
C. Devotiianum. — Leaves a foot long and 
broadly strap-shaped : pseudo-bulbs but little 
developed. Racemes drooping, with many 
greenish flowers heavily tinged with purple, 
each flower an inch and a half across. This 
plant should be well raised or suspended while 
in bloom. Assam. 
C. eburneum. — One of the most beautiful. 
Spike erect and sheathed, bearing one to three 
white flowers, sometimes marked with a few 
purple spots in front of the yellow crest. Flowers 
3 inches across. A cool-house species from the 
Khasia Hills and other highland regions of an 
elevation of 5,000 to 6,000 feet. While the 
plant was rare several varieties received names, 
but large importations have rendered these 
distinctions of little value. 
C. elegans {Cyperorchis). — Racemes dense 
and many-flowered. Flowers inches long, 
pale-yellow, sometimes tinged with purple. 
Disc of the lip two orange-coloured raised lines. 
Himalaya. 
C. Gammieanum. — Flowers yellowish-white 
with purplish markings. It has been suggested 
that this is a natural hybrid between C. elegans 
and C. longifolmn. Sikkim Himalaya. 
C. giganteum. — One of the finest large-grow- 
ing species. Leaves 2 to 3 feet long. Flower- 
I spikes strong, bearing about a dozen yellowish 
flowers, striped lengthwise with red. Lip yel- 
lowish spotted with red, and downy in front. 
North India. 
C. grandijiorum. — A noble species bearing 
7 to 1 2 flowers to the spike, each flower about 
5 inches across. Sepals and petals emerald- 
green ; lip white at first, changing to pale 
yellow spotted with reddish-purple. Eastern 
1 Himalaya. Syn. C. Hookerianmn. 
C.longifolium. — An elegant species with long, 
! curving iflower-spikes, charged with flowers of 
I 3 inches across and somewhat resembling those 
of C. giganteum. Sepals and petals yellowish, 
striped with red-brown ; lip creamy-white 
spotted with purple. 
C. Lowianum. — The commonest, most use- 
ful, and one of the showiest of the genus. 
Leaves 3 feet or more long. Racemes robust, 
arching, and bearing 20 to 25 flowers, each 3 
j to 4 inches across. Sepals and petals greenish- 
yellow. Lip whitish to bufF-yellow, showing 
I a velvety, reddish (often nearly scarlet) front 
i lobe with a whitish margin. The variety con- 
! color has uniformly pale yellow flowers, and 
I there are other forms. 
I C. Master sii {Cyperorchis). — Habit of C. 
i eburneum, but with a more slender spike of 
I smaller white flowers, more closely arranged 
and often 10 or more in number on a spike. 
Syn. C. affine. Khasia Hills. 
C. Parisliii. — A very rare species originally 
discovered in Moulmein and by some referred 
as a variety to C. eburneum, which its white 
flowers much resemble. The main diff erence 
is a broader development of the lip, which has 
purple markings. 
C. Parisliii Sandera. — The subject of our 
coloured plate and by far the showiest plant 
of the section, while so widely diff'erent from 
the original form as almost to constitute a 
distinct species. It was found by Micholitz 
in the highlands of Annam, French Indo- 
