by Mr. Fletcher, supplemented by the use of a living 
plant kindly lent for the purpose by Messrs. Stuart Low 
and Company, Jarvisbrook, Sussex, it has been possible 
to prepare the accompanying plate. The species is 
not a Bulbophyllum, if that name be employed in its 
proper and more restricted sense, but a Cirrhopetalum. 
Its affinity is not very clear, but it bears a rather remote 
resemblance to another New Guinea species, which has 
been figured at t. 7557 of this work as C’. robustum, Rolfe, 
which has, however, much smaller green leaves and 
much smaller flowers. The leaf in the background of 
our plate is a portrait of one of the leaves on 
Mr. Fletcher’s plant; the largest of the leaves on that 
plant, it may be added, was fourteen inches long. The 
smaller plant, shown entire on our plate, is that in the 
possession of Messrs. Stuart Low and Company. It has 
been propagated from a small side growth and as yet is 
far from being fully developed. The cultivation suitable 
for other species of Bulbophyllum and Cirrhopetalum has 
been found appropriate for this species. 
Description.—J//erb of considerable size, epiphytic. 
Rootstock stout; pseudobulbs close-set, subglobose or 
quadrate, somewhat compressed, transversely wrinkled 
and streaked with purple lines, 3~21 in. across, 1-foliate. 
Leaves sessile, elliptic or oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, 
glaucous, purple-edged, 2-14 in. long, 14-4 in. wide. 
Scapes lateral, short, stout, umbellately 5-7-flowered ; 
bracts not seen; pedicels 13 in. long. Flowers very 
large for the genus, suffused and blotched with purple. 
Sepals: posterior incurved, ovate-oblong, acuminate, 
somewhat concave, 23-22 in. long; lateral recurved, 
connate in the middle, lanceolate-oblong, finely acumin- 
ate and free towards their tips, 33—4 in. long, their edges 
revolute. Petals ovate, subacute with an acuminate tip, 
rather less than 1 in. long, Lip clawed, rather fleshy, 
cordate-ovate, tip recurved and somewhat blunt, about 
3 in. long; disk bluntly 2-keeled. Column broad, about 
+ In. long; teeth short, acute. 
Fig. 1, a petal; 2, lip with column, showing the foot of the latter; 3, lip, 
showing’ the claw; 4, front view of the column ; 5, pollinia :—all enlarged. 
