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lamina brevi obtusa; pedicelli cum ovario 1-2 lineas longi, 
bracteis scariosis angustissimis acutis duplo longioribus suffulti. 
Flores pallidi, fere hyalini, angustissimi, cireiter 9 lineas longi, 
eleganter fimbriato-hirsuti, pilis flaceidis paleaceis unicellularibus ; 
sepala squalia, e basi lato linearia vel fere filiformia, lateralia 
gibbosa ; petala glabra, linearia, vix acuta, quam sepala multoties 
breviora; labellum parvum, basi sepalis adnatum, angustum, 
complicatum, geniculatum, extrorso-curvatum, simul versus 
columnam inflexum ; columna brevis, breviter bidentata. 
Shan hills at 6000 feet; common at Toongyi, but not seen 
elsewhere. 
The curved stout scape of this species geniculate with the base 
of the dense bottlebrush-like raceme is quite unlike any other, 
and its affinity with 2. hirtum, Lindl., is remote. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XIX. 
An inflorescence of Bulbophyllum comosum, Coll. et Hemsl., natural size. 
Fig. 1, a flower; 2, unicellular hair from the sepal; 3, a petal; 4, column 
2. 9 
and lip; 5, column. All enlarged. 
Cirrhopetalum Collettii, Hemsl., n. sp., in Hook. f. Fl. Brit, 
Jnd. v. p. 773. (Plate XX., lapsu Collettianum.) 
C. ornatissime proximum, sed sepalo postico petalisque ap- 
pendieibus foliaeeis (mobilibus ?) insignibus conspieue differt. 
Pseudobulbi carnosi, tetragono-ovoidei, juveniles plurivaginati, 
vaginis subscariosis longitudinaliter cireiter 9-nervis oblique 
truncatis apieulatis. Folium carnosum, enervium, anguste 
oblongo-lanceolatum, 2-3 poll. longum, obtusum, basi attenuatum, 
primum arete complicatum. Scapus e vaginis oriundus, erectus, 
3-6 poll. altus, erassiusculus, circiter 5-6-florus, bracteis membra- 
naceis angustis acutissimis pedicellis brevioribus. Flores pur- 
purei, 4—5 poll. longi, pedicellati, pedicellis 6-9 lineas longis; 
sepala lateralia basi gibbosa, angusta, longissime caudata, inap- 
peudiculata; sepalum posticum vix pollicare, basi gibbosum, 5- 
nervium, sursum margine appendicibus longis linearibus instruc- 
tum; petalatrinervia, e basi lata remote fimbriata,subite attenuata, 
margine appendicibus foliaceis cuneato-obovatis stipitatis dentatis 
ornata; labellum parvum, medio angustissime articulatum, 
mobile, supra medium incrassatum, lingueforme, recurvum; 
columna 2-alata, apice breviter bidentata. 
Shan hills at 6000 feet. 
