Tap 4418 
CIRRHOPETALUM nutans. 
Drooping-flowered Cirrhopetalum. 
Nat. Ord. OrcHIDEm.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4237.) 
CIRRHOPETALUM xetans; pseudo-bulbis ovato-subrotundis rugosis, foliis ovato- 
oblongis obtusis crassis, scapo erecto elongato, umbella multiflora nutante, 
sepalis lateralibus longissimis linearibus ligulatis acutis supremo abbreviato 
acuminato, petalis ovatis acutissimis inferne ciliatis, labello linguiformi 
recurvo (bicristato, Zindl.), columne angulis obsolete bidentatis. 
CIRRHOPETALUM nutans. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1839, Miscell. n. 18. 
We have already given figures of two species of this remark- 
able genus, C. Thouarsii (Tan. 4237) and C. fimbriatum, (Vas. 
4391), and we have here the pleasure of exhibiting a third, 
possessing, however, more singularity than beauty. : The la- 
bellum being loosely articulated moves when the plant is shaken 
in the slightest degree, or with the action of the wind or the 
breath. The Royal Gardens of Kew owe the possession of it to 
Messrs. Loddiges, by whom, it was imported from Manilla, 
through the instrumentality of Mr.Cuming. It flowered in 
the stove with us in July, 1848. Dr. Lindley compares it to 
C.Wallichii from Nepal, a species with which we are not 
acquainted. . 
Duscr. Caudex creeping, jointed, striated, rooting, about as 
thick as a raven’s quill. Pseudo-bulbs subglobose, sheathed with 
large, brown, striated scales. Leaf solitary, articulated on the 
pseudo-bulb, subpetiolate, broadly or ovato-lanceolate, obtuse, 
very thick and fleshy, subcoriaceous, dark green, paler beneath. 
Scapes generally: two, springing from the caudex at the base of 
each pseudo-bulb, long, slender, curved, articulated and partially 
sheathed with brown scales or bracteas. Umbel of several spread- 
ing, pale yellowish fowers. Sepals porrected, almost closed, upper 
one small, lanceolate, acuminate, lateral ones very long, linear 
or strap-shaped, acute, or mucronate, striated. Petals broadly 
JANUARY Ist, 1849. B2 
