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Tas. 4422. 
CIRRHOPETALUM Macraet. 
Mr. M‘Rae’s Cirrhopetalum. 
Nat. Ord. OrncHIDEZ.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4237.) 
CrrrnorrtaLum Macraei; pseudo-bulbis ovatis levibus, foliis solitariis oblougis 
acutis in petiolum attenuatis, scapis folio longioribus, racemis Vix umbellatis 
laxifloris, sepalis lanceolatis acuminatis lateralibus longissimis supremo 
apice acuminatissimis incurvo, petalis ovatis acuminatis, columna utrinque 
alata apice longe bidentato, labello ovato-acuminato carnoso recurvo. 
C1rRHOPETALUM Macraei. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 59. 
Detected in Ceylon by Mr. M‘Rae, growing upon trees in 
woods, and since sent from the same country by our worthy 
friend Mr. Gardner, the able Director of the Botanic Garden of 
Peradenia, to the Royal Gardens of Kew. It flourishes on lumps 
of turf suspended from the roof of the Orchideous House, and 
blossoms in July. This is a much prettier species of the genus 
than the C. nutans, figured at Tas. 441 8, the flowers being of a 
deeper yellow, mixed with purplish-brown. 
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs ovate, smooth, scarcely so large as nut- 
megs, the younger ones sheathed with brown fibrous scales : 
each is terminated by a solitary and rather large, oblong, fleshy, 
acute deaf, tapering into a rather long footstalk, which is articu- 
lated upon the bulb. Scape, a span long, slender, longer than 
the leaf, bracteated. Raceme (scarcely at all umbellate) of about 
six pedicellated flowers, whose ground-colour 1s yellow. Upper 
sepal small, broad-lanceolate, with a long, very narrow, almost 
setaceous, incurved. point, externally brown except at the margin ; 
lateral sepals very long, linear-lanceolate, gradually acuminated, 
streaked or dashed with red brown. Peta/s ovate, entire, acu- 
minate, purple brown. Column short, with two wings, and 
terminating upwards in two subfalcate segments or long teeth, 
JANUARY Ist, 1849. 
