772 CXLVI. ORCHIDES. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Sunipia. 
10. SUNIPIA, Lindl. 
A tufted epiphyte; rhizome creeping; pseudobulbs narrow, 1-leaved. 
Leaf coriaceous, many-nerved. Flowers small in a distichous spike, con- 
cealed by the imbricating bracts. Sepa/s very broad, subequal, spreading. 
Petals minute, rounded-ovate. Lip small, sessile on the base of the column, 
erect, broadly tongue-shaped; midlobe thick, oblong, concave, margins 
recurved. Column very short, broad; anther suberect, sessile, persistent, 
cells distant ; pollinia 4, ovoid, free or cohering by a viscus. 
S. scariosa, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7373; Gen. § Sp. Orchid. 119; 
Orchid. Scel. 25; Sert. Orchid. Frontisp. No. x.; Fol. Orchid. 1. Orni- 
thidium bracteatum, Wall. mss. 
SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 4-6000 ft., common. 
Kuasia Mrs., alt. 3—4000 ft., Lobb, &c. TENASSERIM; at Moulmein, Parish. i 
Pseudobulbs 1-11 in., ovoid. Leaf 4-6 by 3-1 in., subsessile, subacute, oF hid 
rounded. . Scape 5-10 in, very slender; sheaths distant, tubular, truncate; Sp! 
curved, 2-6 in.; bracts }-} in., very broadly ovate, acute, complicate, pane 
coriaceous, nerved; flowers rosy, subsessile; ovary very short, obconic ; mT 
scurely 3-nerved, and petals obtuse, very thick; disk of lip with an obiong 
callus. 
11. CIRRHOPETALUM, Lindl. 
Habit and characters of Bulbophyllum, but here distinguished by x 
more often and more regularly whorled flowers, and by the short oe 
sepal, rarely half the length of the almost invariably much longer la n . 
Lip very small and stipitate in all the species.—Species 30 or more, ene / 
Indian and Malayan. 
The species of Bulbophyllum and Cirrhopetalum are in many cases 80 MEE 
cross affinities, that the two genera might well be regarded as one. My eim. 
them apart is due to the consideration of convenience, and the fact that & red 
attempts to commingle the species of both have resulted in a chaotic. agg 
with most unsatisfactory sectional characters; in fact, a far less natural ealt 
than the keeping them apart. The species of this genus are far the most di i 
of the two, as regards analysis from dried specimens, on account of the delicacy 
the perianth, and the fact that the length, form, colour, and consiste a 
lateral sepals alter greatly during development. C. viridiflorum and Blepharit 
have the longer dorsal sepal of Bulbophyllum. 
A. Flowers solitary (occasionally solitary in imperfectly developed 
species of other groups). 154 
XXX. 
1. C. merguense, Par. & Reichb. f. in Trans. Linn. Soe. 
(Bolbophyllum) ; lateral sepals 13 in. iinear-lanceolate acute j-nerved P 
much longer iban the ovate concave 5-nerved dorsal the tip | lip hispid, 
ciliate with rigid bristles, petals like the dorsal sepal 3-nerved, Hp 
arms of column rounded. 
PEGU; near Rangoon, Berkeley. TENASSERIM, Parish. 
Pseudobulbs 1 in., narrow, 5-angled, Leaf 11-2 in., narrowl x 
2-3 in., filiform, sheaths 2 ; bracts linear; pedicels } in., slender; flowers y 
purple; lip purple. 
ong. Scape 
y obl mg ]low and 
2. C. lasiochilum, Par. & Reichb.f. in Trans. Linn. De 
(Bolbophyllum) ; lateral sepals 1 in. spreading falcately lanceo tals 
9-nerved twice as long as the lanceolate coriaceous ciliolate dorsa» PY 
nearly as long as the dorsal sepal thick lanceolate scabrid ciliate 
3-nerved, lip laterally strigose, columnar teeth short hooked. 
