Tab. 7198. 

 CIRRHOPETALUM Collettil 



Native of the Shan States. 



Nat. Ord. Obchide.e.— Tribe EpiDENDEEiE. 

 Genus Ciuehopetalum, IAndl. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. PL vol. iii. p. 504.) 



Cibkhopetaltjm ColUttii ; rhizomate robusto, pseudobulbis 4-lobis, folio 

 elliptico- v. oblongo-lanceolato, scapo robusto deflexo 5-6 flore, bracteis 

 subulato-lanceolatis, floribus maguis aurantiacis rubro striatia, sepalo 

 dorsah triangulari-ovato caudato, cauda, marginibusque paleis mem- 

 branaceis elongatis mobilibus creberrime onustia, sepalis lateralibus 

 dorsah pluries longioribus in caudas gracillimas sensim angustatis, 

 petalis ovato-rotundatia acuminatis apicibua fasciculo palearum instructis' 

 labello breviter stipitato oblongo obtuso iacraasato recurvo, columns 

 loDgiuscula apicem versus utrinque arista decurva instructa. 



C. Coliettii, Kemd. in Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Int. vol. vi. p. 773 ; in Journ. Linn 

 boc. vol. xxvm. p. 131, t. 20 (errore Collettianum). 



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Cirrhopetalum Coliettii is certainly in many respects the 

 most singular species of the genus hitherto discovered, 

 though in so far as its peculiarities of structure are con- 

 cerned, these differ only in degree of development from what 

 obtain in species already known. Thus, as Mr. Hemsley 

 well observes, G. Coliettii is nearest in affinity to 0. orna- 

 tissimam of the Eastern Himalaya, in which the petals are 

 tipped with a bunch of slender mobile red paleae. It is 

 also nearly allied to C. fimbriatum of Bombay, figured at 

 tab. 4391 of this work, the dorsal sepals and petals of 

 which are margined with long slender palea3 attached, as in 

 the plant here figured, by so minute a point as to be in 

 constant motion. In neither of these, however, are the 

 palefe dilated, cuneiform and lacerate, as are the terminal 

 and often the lateral ones of the dorsal sepal of C. Coliettii, 

 and in those of the bundle that tips the petals. 



Mr. Hemsley has pointed out to me a peculiarity in the 

 mode of growth of this species, in that the flowering 

 scape is not formed at the base of a fully formed pseudo^ 

 bulb, but is developed together with a young leaf which 

 afterwards forms a pseudobulb, and is enclosed in sheaths 

 with it, as shown in the drawing. I observe the same 

 October 1st, 1891. 



