Tas. 8281. 
BULBOPHYLLUM campanounatum. 
Sumatra, 
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ORCHIDACEAE. Tribe EPIDENDREAE, 
Bou.sopHyiium, Thouars; Benth. et Hook. JS. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 501. 
20 ohyllum (Cirrhopetalum) campanulatum, Rolfe in Kew Bull. 
909, p. 62; a B. aurato, Reichb. f., sepalis lateralibus brevioribus con- 
natisque et petalis haud falcato-aristatis differt. ; 
Herba epiphytica. Pseudobulbi approximati, ovoideo-oblongi, obscure tetragoni, 
2-2-5 em. longi, monophylli. Folia oblonga, obtusa, coriacea, 8-9 cm. 
longa, circa 2 cm. lata, subtus purpurea. Scapi graciles, suberecti, circa 
8 cm. longi, apice decurvi, circa 10-flori. Flores umbellati, radiati, recurvi, 
in inflorescentias subcampanulatas dispositi. Bracteae subulato-lanceolatae, 
recurvae, 4-5 mm. longae. Pedicelli 5 mm. longi. Sepalwm posticum 
elliptico-ovatum, acuminatum, longe ciliatum, concavum, 6 mm. longum ; 
sepala lateralia connata, decurva, limbus oblongus, subacutus, convexus, 
apice subrecurvus, 1°5 cm. longus, 8 mm. latus. Petala ovata, subacuta 
vel apiculata, ciliata, 4-5 mm. longa. JLabellum recurvum, carnosum, 
oblongum, subacutum, 8-4 mm. longum. Columna lata, 3 mm. longa; 
stelidia obtusa vel truncata.—R. A. Roure. 
The specific name proposed for the elegant little species 
here figured has reference, Mr. Rolfe explains, to the 
shape assumed by the inflorescence in consequence of the 
strong decurvature of the lateral sepals of the individual 
flowers. In referring this plant, and the whole of the 
section Cirrhopetalum to which it belongs, to the genus 
Bulbophyllum, Mr. Rolfe has adopted a comprehensive view 
that is admittedly unassailable on taxonomic grounds. At 
the same time, the recognition of the section ees Ropetalice 
as a floristic group apart from Bulbophyllum is a measure 
that has, owing to the considerable number of the forms 
that may without dubiety be referred to one as apart from 
the other group, certain practical advantages that appeal to 
cultivators, and it will probably always be found convenient 
from the horticultural point of view to treat this plant as a 
Cirrhopetalum. The species is a native of Sumatra, from 
the eastern coast of which island it was first introduced to 
the Botanic Gardens at Brussels. From that institution the 
OctosrEr, 1909. 
