780 CxLVII. ORCHIDEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [Cirrhopetalum. 
yellow-green with faint red nerves, bases rounded together forming a cordate- 
lanceolate blade; petals 5-nerved, yellow tipped with red.—Dorsal sepal of a Bulbo- 
phyllum, but whole habit of Cirrhopetalum. The colours are taken from the 
drawing with obovate petals. 
34, C.'Macraei, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 59 ; in Bot. Reg. 1841, Mise. 
52; lateral sepals 2 in. narrowly linear-lanceolate with long filiform tips 
coherent three times as long as the lanceolate acuminate dorsal, petals 
faleately ovate-lanceolate, columnar arms long broad horizontal crenate on 
one side. Bot. Mag. t. 4422. C. Walkerianum, Wight Ic. t. 1657. Bulbo- 
phyllum Walkerianum, Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 263. 
CEYLON ; in the Hantani and Hewahette districts, alt. 3—4000 ft. 
Pseudobulbs small, ovoid. Leaves 3-5 in., petioled, oblong, subacute. Scape 
6 in., very slender; flowers between umbelled and racemose; bracts long, ovate- 
lanceolate ; pedicels very short; sepals pale yellow and scarlet, lateral 5- dorsal 3- 
nerved ; petals 3-nerved, scarlet. 
SPECIES UNKNOWN TO ME. 
B. (Cirrhopetalum) Maxxrr, Reichb. f. in Flora 1872, 275; leaf petioled cuneate- 
oblong obtusely acute dilated above, peduncle deflexed, umbel few-fld., mentum 
angled, sepals golden with many brown specks, dorsal lanceolate aristate, latera 
contiguous caudately narrowed from a broad base, petals ligulate decurved awn i 
from the middle, lip thick curved somewhat margined 2-edged with a small callus @ 
the base of the claw, column dilated at the base, arms curved retuse, base 
above l-toothed, lip 2-toothed, lower tooth obtuse,— Assam, Mann,—Probably near 
C. cornutum. 
C. TENIOPHYLLUM, Par. & Reichb. f. in Trimen Journ. Bot. 1874, 198 (Bolbo- 
phyllum); pseudobulb conie, top narrowed, when dry furrowed lengthwise and pins 
leaf cuneate ligulate obtuse acute longer than the peduncle, flowers yellow wit 
purple dots, bracts broadly triangular l.nerved not equalling the pedicelled ovary, 
dorsal sepal short triangular l-nerved, lateral 3—4 times longer coherent, bases free 
acute 3-nerved, petals ligulate acute 3-nerved, lip 2-edged $-lunate, column bisetose. 
—Tenasserim, Parish, 
12. TRIAS, Lindl. 
Small epiphytes with the habit and foliage of Bulbophyllum. ion 
lateral, l-fld. Sepals subequal, spreading, 7-nerved, lateral adnate to i 
foot of the column. Petals small, oblong or linear. Lip small, coriaceo 
or fleshy, jointed on to the foot of the column, inflexed, incumbent, mo on 
Column short, broad, tip angled, winged or toothed ; anther erect, caduco" , 
2-celled, produced into a long horn ; pollinia subcoherent in pairs in ea 
cell.—Species 3, all Indian. 
1. T. oblonga, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 1977; Gen. § Sp. Orchid. OF 
leaves elliptie or oblong obtuse, sepals subacute, petals ovate, lip iab Pl. 
subacute with erect auricles, horn of anther notched at the tip. Wa 949. 
As. Rar. i. 55, t. 70. Bolb. oblongum, Reichb. f. in Walp, Ann. Y} 
Dendrobium tripterum, Wall. mss., 
TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Wallich, Griffith, Parish. jl in. 
Pseudobulbs 4-% in. diam. Leaves 1-1} in. long. Scape very slender, ers a 
Flower lin. diam.; lip grooved in the middle.—Lindley describes the Howe! 
brownish green, and lip as purple. Parish has flowers yellow. 
+ tice 
2. T. picta, Benth. in Gen Plant. iii. 505; leaves ovate or oa 
lanceolate contracted at the tip or at. both ends, sepals gabars per 
obovate deflexed, lip oblong granulate, tip rounded, horn of anther 
