300 ME. G. BENTHAM OS ORCHIDE^I. 



genus in some of his horticultural articles. The umbellate inflo- 

 rescence, accompanied by the elongated parallel lateral sepals, 

 give the great majority of species so peculiar an aspect that the 

 group may be more conveniently considered as a genus than as a 

 section, notwithstanding the C. Wallichii, Lindl. (C. refractum, 

 Zoll.), in which the umbel is elongated into a raceme, but 

 with the characteristic lateral sepals very conspicuous, and the 

 few umbellate species retained in Bulbophyllum as having the 

 sepals equal and regular. The only really intermediate species 

 I am acquainted with is the Australian C. or B. Elisce, which 

 P. Mueller published under either generic name, giving, however, 

 the preference to Cirrhopetalum, to which, after all, it may be 

 more nearly allied than to Bulbophyllum, under which I entered 

 it in the ' Flora Australiensis.' Bulbophyllopsis, Reichb. f, was a 

 genus proposed for the Cirrhopetalum maculosum, Lindl. (C. boo- 

 tanense, Griff.), but since given up by the author as being in every 

 respect a true Cirrhopetalum. 



Meyacliniam, Lindl., about nine African species with a very 

 exceptional inflorescence, and Trias, Lindl., three East-Indian 

 species with a distinct habit and a marked appendage to the 

 anthers, although united by Reichenbach with Bulbophyllum, 

 appear to be sufficiently constant in habit and character to be 

 retained as genera. Osyricera, Blume, a single Javan species 

 only known to me from the author's figure and description, is 

 probably also very near Bulbophyllum, but distinguished by a 

 curious appendage to the anther and other minor characters. 



Drymoda, Lindl., is a curious little Malayan plant with the 

 general aspect of Eria extinctoria ; but the filiform scape is 

 attached under the base of the orbicular pseudobulb as in Bulbo- 

 phyllum. The lateral sepals are attached to the end of the long 

 basal projection of the column as in Monomeria, and the pollen- 

 masses are rather those of Bulbophyllum than of Uria, but with 

 a curious globular appendage, which, according to Griffith's 

 drawing, is of the colour of the pollen, but exserted from the 

 anther-cells. The only flower I could examine was in too im- 

 perfect a state to ascertain the real nature of this appendage. 



Monomeria, Lindl., >?-as founded on a Nepal plant evidently 

 very closely allied to some of the larger species of Bulbophyllum, 

 but with the lateral sepals attached to the end of the long basal 

 projection of the column. Lindley described and sketched out in 

 his herbarium the pollen-masses as parallel and laterally com- 



