VASDE^.
4. CYMÜIDILM PENDULUM Swartz in Noy. Act. Upaal. TÍ, T¿.
Pseüdo-sUm stout, Te cm. Ion». Leases Hneai-oblong, acutc, not notched, up
lo 7-5 dm. long and toom 1-5 to 3 cm. broad, expanding into basal sheaths.
J„M'Sce«c, a-5 to 3 dm., decurved from the base, the peduncle about 7-5
cm., clothed with many imbricate sheaths. Fhwm many, not crowded, dark
purplish-brown, about 3 cm. across; fhral bract minute, triangular, the ovary with
stalk 1'3 cm. &p«& equal, oblong, slightly dilated near their blunt apices. Felah
nearly as long as the sepals and a little wider, margined ,vith yellow as are the
sepals. Lip adnate to the short foot of the column, oblong, dilated and subsaecate at
the base; side lobes narrow, their apices blunt and directed forwards; terminal lobe
oblong, blunt, emargdnate, much decurved; disk between the side lobes with two
,>ari,llel continuous lamelta divergent at the base, meeting in the middle and slightly
sepai-ating at their clárate apices. Coto» erect, narrower above, with a veiy short
foot, Mmr broad, depressed, minutely papillose; foUinia. ovoid, acute, diverging
essile on a broad thin shaDow ghrnd. Eoib. Fl. Ind. iii, 458; Lindl. Gen and
Sp. Orch. 165; Walp. Ann. vi, 643 (ercl. cit. Bot. Eeg.); King & Pant, in Ann. Roy
Jiot. Gard. Calc. TÜi, 188, t. 351; RoHe in Journ. Linn. Soc. Mivi, 31. 0. ahifMwn
Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 10 (in part). C. crmtifiHmi Wall. Cat. 7357. C. Mamii Reichb.
i. in Flora 1872, 374. EpiieMrum penduhm Koxh. Cor. PI. i, 35, t. 44.
KiK Valley in Knmaon at a low elevation, DulMe's lolUcior No. 34097. Flowers
in May or June. It extends eastwards to Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Sylhet, Burma and
China; and is found also in S. ladia, the Andaman Islauds and Perak.
5. CvMBIDIUM iLOIFOLiuji Swartz in Nov. Act. Upsal. vi, 7,5.
Puuio-,Um short. L,am> 3 to 5-5 dm. loug and about 3 em. broad, linear-ohlon»,
curved, obtuse, fleshy, obliquely notched at the apei, sKghtly expanded at the sheathing
base. I.ßo,;,„nc, from the base of the small pseudo-stem, somewhat shorter than the
leaves, peduncle 7'5 to 10 cm. long, bearing several tubular acute scarious sheaths neat
the base; raceme many-flowered, decurved, 3 to 4 dm. long. Flower, 3-5 cm. across;/o™/
tract minute, ovate, the stalked ovary about 13 mm. long. Sepah suboqual, oblong or
slightly eblanceolate, blunt. Petals as long as the sepals, ovate-oblanoeolate, blunt. Lip as
long as the sepals, oblong, 3-lobed, its upper surface with two lamella, broken and disconnected
in the middle; the lateral lobes long, narrow, their apices blunt, entire, pointing
lorwards; apical lobe ovnte-oHong, much decurved. Co!«»« sKghtly thickened at the apex-
AnUter subquadrate, papillose, the gland of the pollinia small. Capiah elliptic, 8 to 9
cm. long. SivartE in Schrad. Journ. Bot. 1779, ii., 318; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iü, 458 • Lindl
Gen. and Sp. Orch. 165; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 967; Walp. Ann. vi, 634 (excl, Ic. Wight,'
Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, iO; King & Pantl. in Ann. Roy. Bot Gard. Calc. viii'
169, t. 2o2. Eputmdrum akifihum Linn. fp. PL 953. 9 Aeriie, Borasti Smith in Rejs'
Cyclop. Sappl, (in partj. Mpidendrmi abides Bot. Mag. t. 387.
Bahraich district o( N. Oudh near the Nepal frontier, Duthü', allector No. 23865 •
flowering during April and May. It extends eastwards to Bengal, Sikkim and Assam
aud oocnrs also in S. India, Ceylon, the Andaman Islands and .Perak.
CYMBrDIUM.
CvMBiDruu LONGiPOLJuu Don Prod. 36.
137
clawed; side lobes lonf n a r i l i T' "»"«y mmmrnrns^ • 204. Eolfe n " L u n "jo. v ii, 19
purs ,„tt. With . . . . . . ti
7. CiMBimuM GIGAKTEUH Wall. Cat. 7355
minute, broad. SefaU subequal, ellipticoblong, subacute, the d™ l / l l i t Td
their apices elliptic and directed forward; apical lobe L e x T „' t if
cr-S i:: ils;
Orch. Alh. vi, t. 284; Hook. f. Fl & nd v ' \ \
Roy. Bot. Gard., Oalc viii 191 t o t r v ' ' " Ann.
I n Z 76, t. 36.
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