Tas. 8600. 
CIRRHOPETALUM FLetcuEeRIANuM. 
New Guinea. 
ORCHIDACEAE. Tribe EpIDENDREAE. 
Crrrnoretatum, Lindl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 504. 
Cirrhopetalum Fletcherianum, Rolfe; species a C. robusto, Rolfe, foliis 
multo longioribus et glaucis, floribus multo majoribus, purpureo-suffusis 
et maculatis, sepalis acuminatis valde differt. 
Herba magna, epiphytica. Rhizoma validum. Pseudobulbi approximati, sub- 
globosi vel quadrati, subcompressi, transverse corrugati ef purpureo- 
lineati, 2-6 cm. lati, monophylli. Folia sessilia, elliptica vel oblonga, 
obtusa, coriacea, glauca, purpureo-marginata, 5-35 cm. longa, 3-10 cm. 
lata. Scapi laterales, breves, robusti, umbellati, 5-7-flori. Bracteae 
ignotae. Pedicelli 4 cm. longi. lores maximi, purpureo-suffusi et 
maculati. Sepalwm posticum incurvum, ovato-oblongum, acuminatum, 
subconcavum, 6-7 em. longum; sepala lateralia recurva, medio connata, 
lanceolato-oblonga, apice valde acuminata et libera, 9-10 cm. longa, 
marginibus revolutis. Petala ovata, apice acuminata, subacuta, circiter 
2°3em. longa. Labellwm unguiculatum, subcarnosum, cordato-ovatum, 
apice recurvum et subobtusum, circiter 1 cm. longum, disco obtuse 
bicarinato. Colwmna lata, circiter 1 cm. longa; dentes breves, acuti.— 
Bulbophyllum Fletcherianwm, Hort.; Gard. Chron. 1914, vol, ly. pp. 320, 
821, fig. 142; Orch. Rev. 1914, p. 164.—R. A. Roxre. 
The very striking Orchid of which a figure is here 
given was first imported to England from New Guinea 
by Messrs. Hugh Low and Company, Enfield, and at 
once attracted attention. Its long pendulous leaves 
with a glaucous upper surface suggested comparison 
with the genus Phalaenopsis, owing to the resemblance 
they bore to those of P. Schilleriana; at the same 
time the pseudobulbs indicated affinity with the genus 
Bulbophyllum. In May, 1914, a plant in the possession of 
Mr. E. V. Low, Vale Bridge Nursery, Hayward’s Heath, 
produced an inflorescence. This plant later became the 
property of the Rev. J. C. B. Fletcher, Mundham 
Vicarage, Colchester, by whom it was exhibited at a 
meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society under the 
name Bulbophyllum Fletcherianum. From a water colour 
sketch of the plant and a single flower presented to Kew 
Marca, 1915. 
