phenomena in Bulbophyllum fusco-purpuream, but not in 

 any other species of Bulbophyllum or Girrhopetalum that I 

 have examined, though it no doubt may occur in others. 



The flowering of this beautiful plant enables me to 

 correct two errors that have crept into the descriptions 

 which were made from dried specimens. One of these 

 (in the Flora of British India) describes the pseudobulbs 

 as very small ; the other (in the Linnean Journal) figures 

 and describes the peduncle as erect. 



G. Collettii was discovered by Major-General Collett, 

 C.B., F.L.S., in the Southern Shan hills, when on service 

 there during the late Burmese war, and is one of a fine 

 collection of plants, amounting to upwards of seven 

 hundred species, of which twelve per cent, were new, made 

 chiefly by this distinguished oflicer in that previously 

 unvisited and indeed inaccessible region. These are 

 enumerated, with descriptions of the new species, by Mr 

 Hemsley m the Journal of the Linnean Society cited above ; 

 and the enumeration is prefaced by a valuable essay 

 (accompanied by a good map) on the climate and vege- 

 tation of the LShan hills, by General Collett himself. 

 Amongst other plants the Girrhopetalum is noted as 

 nignly curious, and meriting notice ; the flower, which 

 is inodorous, being "remarkable for the extremely long 

 attenuated sepals, which are highly mobile and are wafted 

 about by the slightest breath of air; and for the flower 

 being also furnished with a number of little streamers or 

 banner-like appendages, which, as Darwin remarks of an 

 allied Bulbophyllum (B. lemniscatum, Plate 5961), when 

 blown by a breath of wind wriggle about in a very odd 

 manner. J 



< Another plant discovered by General Collett is Bosa 

 gigantea, Collett (Hemsley, I.e. 55, t. 9), a white-flowered 

 species allied to B. indica, with flowers five inches in 

 diameter and which is flourishing at Kew, though it has 

 not as yet flowered. 



Live plants of Girrhopetalum Collettii were sent to the 

 itoyal Gardens by its discoverer in 1888, where the 

 plant Aere figured flowered in May of the present year.— 



5 loWr^Tt 1 !l pal; ?' petal ; 3 ' P alea from the latter; 4, column and lip ; 

 a, column ; 6, anther ; 7, pollinia -.-all enlarged. 



