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CYMBIDIUM tancrrouivm. 
Sword-leaved Cymbidium. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.—Nar. Orv. ORCHIDES. 
Div. Anthera terminalis, mobilis, decidua. Masse pollinis demum cereacee.— 
Be. | : : 
Gun. Cuar.—Labellum ecalcaratum, concavum, cum basi (simplici nec pro- 
ducta) column articulatum. Petala patentia, distincta. Masse pollinis 
duo, postice bilobz.—Br. 
Cymbidium lancifolium; foliis radicalibus lanceolatis net'vosis basi atte- 
‘nuatis, scapo tereti paucifloro, labello oblongo apice recurvato ma- 
culato. | , 
Root 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. | —o oe 
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 the 
leaves, erect, cylindrical, very pale green, bearing about 4 or 5 mode- 
rately sized flowers. | : os 
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. : | — 7 
The five outer segments of the Perianth (or petals, as they are usually term- 
ed), are spreading, somewhat fleshy, the dhree 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. a e 3 
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 upward, 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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