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fi ^pearance among the other « of crimson- magenta, and the seven inches across, gai-dencr, pike fine and petals quite petals are the throat being h ved purpuratas curl front portion as -A very W Mr which Grossart gives it a PL 140 jr • ' MBiniUM Ar'FINE CYMBIDIUM AFFINE [Plate 140.1 ^ of Assam and Kliasya iN'aUve Epiphytal Acaulescent, with thick fleshy roots, forming a short rootstock, from which dense tufts of graceful erectly spreading foliage is produced / distichous, erecto-patent, elongate, linear lorate, acute, channeled, thrcc-fourtlis of 01 an inch broad, dark green Scaj)e stout, green, having just beneath the inflorescence two or three loosely sheathing leafy bracts, ; raceme six to eight- llowcTcd, decurvod, terminal, each flower having a short ovate acute bract at the base of its green pedicel Floivers about two and a half inches broad, and as much in depth ivory-white, with a pleasant scent of almonds ; sepals linear-oblong, somewhat broadiT upwards, acute, half an inch broad, the dorsal one incurved, and arcliing forwards over the lip, the lateral ones two inches long, somewhat widened at the base and apex, the rounded bases united with the base of the lip, to form a short l)hmt chin petals linear, about as long as the sepals, but distinctly narrower, onc-f of an inch wide, acute ; lip three-lobed, saccate at the base, the side lobes folded close to the column, the front edge produced rounded and slightly spreadin^, ipotted, as is also the mouth of the tube, with pale magenta, the front lobe hairy, half an inch long, with a narrowed cLaw-like base, ovate, with a wavy margin, white, with a central straight oblonor, and lateral divergent blotches of ma