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acutum,; coriaceum, basi tortum; petiolus crassus. Scapus 
8 poll. longus, pendulus, crassiusculus, basi cum psendo-bulbo 
in vagina 1} poll. longa siccd striaté involutus; vagine 2-3, 
1 poll. longs, acuminate remote adduntur. Umbella 4-7-flora ; 
bractese 4 poll. long, lanceolate: acuminate. Sepalwm posticum 
? poll. longum } poll. latum, lanceolatum caudatum, in margine 
minute ciliatum, carneum a nervis 5 rubris percursum, lateralia 
8-12 poll. longa pallide carnea usque ad 4-3 longitudinem 
connata apice libera filiformia. Petala } poll. longa, lanceolata, 
falcata, in margine ciliata, rosea. Labellum longius, lingue- 
forme, acutum, carnosum, in medio canaliculatum, album. 
Columna majuscula; stelidia brevia, obtusa; clinandrium in 
margine minute denticulatum. <Anthera oblonga, depressa, 
atra ; rostrum obtusum. 
Hab. Siam: Punga, C. Curtis (Fl. H. B. Penang, Oct. 1893). 
This species is remarkable for the immense length of the 
lateral sepals, which are upwards of a foot long. They are 
connate for from a half to a third of their length, the free 
portions being exceedingly slender. The dorsal sepal is 
minutely ciliate, the dark pink petals more distinctly so, the 
trichomes in the latter being glandular and very different from 
those of such species as C. gamosepalum, Griff. The coluinn is 
rather thin textured, the lip large and fleshy, of a dirty white. 
CIRRHOPETALUM GAMOSEPALUM, Griff., Notul., iii. p. 296. 
Hab. Singapore: Bajan! &c., common. 
Johore: Batu Pahat! Sungei Kahang, common, Lake 
and Kelsall. 
Malacca: Sungei Rambei! 
Perak: Scortechint. 
Also Borneo and Sumatra, Teuasserim and the Andaman 
Isles. 
I take this to be the correct name of a plant much resembling 
C. concinnum, Hook. f., but with a very much longer scape. 
It is very variable in colouring on account of the varying pre- 
ponderance of pink or crimson specks, the ground colour of 
the flowers being cream yellow. Perhaps more than one species 
is mixed in the description in the ‘ Flora of British India,’ for in 
the Malay Peninsula species the lateral sepals are nearly always 
connate for their whole length, the tips only being free, and 
even if they are free for some way up they never become 
“ widely divergent.” 
