Tas. 4996. 
CIRRHOPETALUM Cumrnett. “ 
Mr. Cuming’s Cirrhopetalum. 
Nat. Ord. Orcu1pE#.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4977.) 
CrrrHoPEtaLum Cumingii ; pseudobulbis tetragonis, folio oblongo obtuso scapo 
breviore, umbella’ dimidiata multiflora, sepalo dorsali petalisque ovatis acu- 
minatis fimbriatis, lateralibus lineari-lanceolatis, labello ovato 3-sulcato pone 
basin bituberculato. Lindl. 
CrrrHopeTaLuM Cumingii. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1843, sub tab. 49. Pasxton’s Mag. 
of Bot. v. 8. p. 165. 
Notwithstanding that this most lovely Orchideous plant has 
been known in our collections since 1841, when it flowered with - 
the Messrs. Loddiges, it has never yet been figured. It isone — 
of the many rarities imported from the Philippine Islands by 
Mr. Cuming, after whom it has been named by Dr. Lindley. 
The extreme regularity with which the flowers are arranged in 
the depressed umbel, spreading in a circle or a semi-circle, and 
the large size and position of the lateral sepals (not the labellum 
as stated in ‘ Paxton’s Magazine of Botany’) are not the least re- 
markable peculiarities about this plant. It flowers readily in the 
early spring. 
Descr. Pseudobulbs small, oval or oblong, monophyllous, 
sheathed, with a large meimbranaceous scale, and arising from a 
creeping caudex, with a few fibrous roots thrown out from beneath 
the pseudobulbs. Leaf solitary from the apex of the pseudo- 
bulb, three to four inches long, oblong or elliptical, coriaceous, 
nerveless, tapering at the base into a very short petiole. Scapes 
solitary, slender, filiform, red, bearing about two minute sheathing 
scales, and arising from the base of the pseudobulb. Mowers 
most beautifully and regularly arranged in a radiating, almost 
exactly circular, umbel, all on the same plane, and of a rich warm 
- red-purple colour. Pedice/s very short, all equal in length, and, 
JULY lst, 1857. 
