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CYMBIDIUM LANciroLiuM. 
Sword-leaved Cymbidium. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.— Nat. Ord. ORCHIDEJE. 
Div. Anthera terminalis, mobilis, decidua. Massae polUnis demum cereacecB.-— 
Br. 
Gen. Char.— X/flSe^/Mwi ecalcaratum, concavura, cum basi (siraplici nec pro- 
ducta) columnae articulatum. P'etala patentia, distincta. Masses poUinis 
duo, postice bilobae. — Br. 
Cymbidium lancifolium; foliis radicalibus lanceolatis nervosis basi atte- 
nuatis, scapo tereti paucifloro, labello oblongo apice recurvato ma- 
culato. 
Itoot composed of large, cylindrical, fleshy fibres. 
Leaves springing from the root in small fascicles, from 8 inches to a foot in 
length, lanceolate, waved, acute, striated, rather fleshy, tapering down 
for a great way into very narrow bases, which are surrounded for a con- 
siderable part of their length with large brownish, imbricated,^ striated, 
acute sheaths. 
Scapes arising frequently in pairs from the summit of the roots, on the out- 
side of the fascicle of leaves, and surrounded at their bases with similar, 
but smaller, imbricated and convoluted sheaths, rather shorter than th^ 
leaves, erect, cylindrical, very pale green, bearing about 4 or 5 mode- 
rately sized flowers. 
Germen so long and slender as to appear like a footstalk, semiterete, pale 
green, having a lanceolate membranaceous bractea, about one-fourth of its 
length at the base. 
The ^five outer segmenis of the Perianth (or petals, as they are usually term- 
ed), are spreading, somewhat fleshy, the three exterior ones the narrowest> 
linear, somewhat twisted, white, destitute of any lines or blotches ; the 
two inner ones are oblong and acute, slightly concave, white, with a broad 
and central rose-colored line or band, which does not reach> however> 
quite to the summit. 
Lip articulated with the base of the column, erecto-patent, oblong, almost 
white on the under side, but spotted at the base ; in the inside having a 
longitudinal elevated ridge, with a deep furrow on the top, 3-lobed, the 
two lateral lobes broad, obtuse, curved vtpward, purplish on the outside, 
with occasionally a few spots; within, of a deep reddish-purple, streaked 
with a few white vertical lines; the middle lobe is ovate, acute, recurved, 
white, marked with transverse red lines on each side at its base, and 
spotted with the same color towards the extremity. 
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