Tas. 8033. 
CLIRRHOPETALUM sreviscarum. 
Malaya. 
Orcuipaceas. Tribe EPIpENDRER. 
Cirruoretatum, Linn.: Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. il. p. 504; Pfitzer © 
in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. vol. ii. 6, p. 178. 
Cirrhopetalum breviscapum, Rolfe (sp. nov.); aff. C. lasiochilo, Hook. f., 
foliis latioribus, sepalis lateralibus longioribus flavis brunneo-maculatis 
et labelli pilis tenuioribus distincta. 
Herba epiphytica, rhizomate repente vaginis imbricatis tecto. Pseudobulbi 
oblongi, tetragoni, 8-10 lin. longi, monophylli, vaginis 2 ovatis dimidio 
brevioribus tecti. Folia subsessilia, elliptico-oblonga, obtusa vel obscure 
bidentata, coriacea, pallide viridia, 14-2 poll. longa. Scapi ad pseudo- 
bulborum basin solitarii, erecti, 14 poll. longi, pallide virides, brunneo- 
maculati, uniflori. Bractezx ovato-lanceolate, acute, 2 lin. longea. Flores 
speciosi; sepalum posticum, petala et labellum purpureum; sepala late- 
ralia flava, brunneo-maculata. Sepalwm posticum lanceolato-oblongum, 
acutum, incurvum, concavum, eciliatum, 8-9 lin. longum. Sepala 
/ateralia basi connata, dein libera, oblonga, subobtusa, recurva, subtorta, 
1 poll. longa. Petala lanceolata, acuta, patentia, 8-9 lin. longa. 
Labellum carnosum, 5 lin. longum, basi late cordatum, dein subito con- 
strictum, apice oblongum, obtusum, apice excepto pilis Jongis vestitum. 
Columna basi lata, apice angusta, 3 lin, longa; dentes graciles, acute, 
incurve ; anthera puberula. 
Cirrhopetalum is rather a large and polymorphic genus 
closely allied to Bulbophyllum, and not always clearly 
separable from it. Upwards of forty Indian species 
have been described, and the Malayan representatives 
must be almost equally numerous, though several of them 
are very imperfectly known. SBesides these there are 
a few representatives in South China, and a single 
outher in the Mascarene and Polynesian islands, 
C. Thouarsit, Lindl., on which the genus was originally 
founded. ‘They aré remarkable for the elongation of the 
lateral sepals, and for having the flowers usually borne in 
an umbel. In C. refractum, Zoll., and one or two allies, 
however, the flowers are racemose, while in the one now 
figured and a few others they are solitary. Upwards of a 
dozen species have already been figured in this Magazine, 
among the more distinct and remarkable being CU. fim- 
briatum, Lindl. (t. 4391), C. Cumingii, Lindl. (t. 4996), 
C. Thouarsii, Lind]. (t. 7214), C. ornatissimum, Reichb. f. 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1905. 
