Epiphytal. _Acaulescent_, with thick fleshy roots, forming a short rootstock, from which dense tufts of graceful erectly spreading foliage is produced. _Leaves_ distichous, erecto-patent, elongate, linear lorate, acute, channeled, three-fourths of an inch broad, dark green. _Scape_ stout, green, having just beneath the inflorescence two or three loosely sheathing leafy bracts; _raceme_ six to eight-flowered, decurved, terminal, each flower having a short ovate acute bract at the base of its pale green pedicel. _Flowers_ about two and a half inches broad, and as much in depth, ivory-white, with a pleasant scent of almonds; _sepals_ linear-oblong, somewhat broader upwards, acute, half an inch broad, the dorsal one incurved, and arching 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 blunt chin; _petals_ linear, about as long as the sepals, but distinctly narrower, one-fourth 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 spreading, spotted, 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 oblong, and lateral divergent blotches of magenta, the central one continued into a yellowish streak, which is produced backwards to the deeper yellow crest of two abruptly elevated papillose plates, which are further continued into two yellow lines. _Column_ white, one and a half inch long, curved, winged. Cymbidium affine, _Griffith_, _Notulæ ad Platas Asiaticas_, iii., 336, t. 291; according to _Lindley_, _Contributions to the Orchidology of India_, in _Journal of Linnean Society_, iii., 28; _Reichenbach fil._, in _Gardeners’ Chronicle_, N.S., x., 810; _Floral Magazine_, t. 346. Cymbidium micromesum, _Lindley_, _Journal of Linnean Society_, iii., 29, _fide Reichenbach_. _Cymbidium_, though a small genus of Orchids, contains within its limits some beautiful species, varying considerably in colour; indeed, most of them are worth growing. That which we now illustrate is a very chaste and pretty species, and is still quite rare; very few plants having come under our notice. We received the grand specimen here figured from the fine collection of G. Nevile Wyatt, Esq., Lake House, Cheltenham, who takes a great interest in the cultivation of good Orchids, and from whom at different times we have received some fine cut specimens, especially of the forms of _Cattleya Trianæ_.