Column nearly as long as the lip, semiterete, curved forwards, white on the 
outside, spotted with red towards the base within ;--near the summit of 
the inner face is a subquadrate cavity which forms the stigma ^(JPxg. 2. h.)^ 
and, at the very summit, is the hemispherical, obtusely 2-lobed, yellow, 
moveable Anther, containing within it two roundish, compressed, yellow, 
cereaceous pollen-masses, affixed by their base to a small white elastic 
gland on one side of the margin of the anther. The upper sides of these 
pollen-masses are seen to have two smaller appendages or lobes, of the 
same texture as the rest of the pollen-mass. 
A native of the East Indies, thence transmitted by Dr 
Wallich to Messrs Shepherd of the Liverpool Botanic 
Garden, by whom a flowering plant of it was sent to me in 
May 1822. Dr W allich had attached a name to it, but this 
being accidentally lost during the voyage, I have ventured to 
affix one which is expressive of the character that must distin- 
guish this species from its very near allies, Cymhidium ensifo- 
Hum, and C. sinense. With the latter it approximates the most, 
but is very widely removed from it by the form and texture of 
its foliage. From the former it differs not only in the leaves, 
which are far broader, and more sensibly attenuated at the 
base and extremity, but also in the flowers, which, in the pre- 
sent individual, have their three outer segments considerably 
the narrowest, are of a whitish, not green, hue, and are also 
destitute of the numerous red lines, with which all the five 
equally broad petals of C. ensifolivmi are alike marked. 
Fig. 1. Column of fructification and Lip of a flower. Fig. 2. Upper part of 
the Column ; shewing a, the Anther, b, the Stigma. Fig. 3. Anther re- 
moved, and turned up, so as to display the attachment of the two Pollen- 
masses within. Fig. 4. Upper side of the two Pollen-masses—y^// more 
or less magnified. 
