Tas. 6802. 
CIRRHOPETALUM PICTURATUM. 
Native of Moulmein,. 
Nat. Ord. ORcHIDEEZ.—Tribe EprpENDRER. 
Genus CrrrHopEtaLum, Lindl. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 504.) 
CiRRHOPETALUM picturatum ; pseudobulbis late ovoideis angulatis, folio breviter 
petiolato lineari-oblongo basi angustato apice rotundato emarginato crasse 
coriaceo luride viridi lateribus convexis, scapo valido purpureo-maculato vaginis 
paucis acutis pallidis, bracteis lanceolatis pedicellis longioribus, floribus 2-polli- 
caribus, sepalo dorsali parvo galeato sanguineo maculato apice filo flexuoso 
instructo, lateralibus in laminam lineari-elongatam convexam acuminatam 
pallide fusco-virescentem conniventibus, petalis parvis ovato-rotundatis aristato- 
acuminatis intus sanguineis, labello recurvo lingueformi convexo obtuso 
Sangulneo. 
C. picturatum, G. Loddiges in Bot. Register, vol. xxvi. (1840), Miscell. p. 49, 
n. 106; Lindi. 1. c. 1843, sub t. 49. 
BuLBoPHyLLvM picturatum, Rehd. f. in Walp. Ann, vol. vi. p. 262. 
It is with some hesitation that I refer the subject of this 
plate to Loddiges’ C. pictwratwm, because of its much 
larger size and the absence of the cilia on the upper sepal, 
the acuminate lateral sepals, and the petals being neither 
ciliate nor villous; itis, however, so similar to a Moulmein | 
plant collected by Parish, which Reichenbach has named 
picturatum, that I am disposed to regard it as a large state 
of the species. The Moulmein plant is smaller, but it has 
the acuminate lateral sepals of this, the sepals, petals and 
_ lip are of precisely the same form, and it shows very slight 
ciliation on the sepals and petals. 
The Royal Gardens are indebted to Messrs. Low & Sons, 
of Upper Clapton, for this well-marked species, which was 
received from their collector, Mr. Richard Curnow, then in 
Burma. The original plant was cultivated forty-five years 
ago by the Messrs. Loddiges, who probably received it 
from the Calcutta Botanical Gardens. 
Descr. Pseudobulbs tufted, two to two and a half inches 
long by one to one and a half inches broad, turgidly ovoid, 
with three or four rather acute raised angles, very dark 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1885, 
