504 CLXIX. ORCHIDEJE. [Epidendrec. 
6. Brachystachye. Herbs tenues, reptantes, pseudobulbis parvulis 1-foliatis. Flores parvuli, 
pauci, longiuseule pedicellati, ad apicem scapi brevis tenuis subumbellati, brevissime laxeque 
racemosi v. capitati; sepala tenuiter acuminata. Species ad 20, Asiatiez. Griff. Ic. Pl. As. t. 294, f. 2. 
OnoxTrosrYrEs, Breda, Orch. Kuhl et Hass. cwm ic. 
His affinis videtur 2. Hegnellii, Reichb. f. Xen. Orch. t. 157, e Brasilia. 
7. Oxysepale. Caules v. rhizomata elongata, prostrata, ramosa, multivaginata, pseudobulbis 
parvis nune minimis l-foliatis. capi breves nunc brevissimi, tenues, pauciflori, sepe vix e vaginis 
prominuli. Flores parvuli, sepalis aeuminatissimis. Column: brachia longa.—Species ad 6, 
Asiatiee v. Australians. Griff. Ic. Pl. 4s. t. 293. OxxskParvM, Wight, Ic. v. 17, 0(. 1736. Huc 
pertinet inter alia B. Shepherdi, F. Muell.; Fitzger. Austral. Orch. eum tab., ubi peduneuli brevis- 
simi delineantur, in speciminibus nostris interdum semipollicem excedunt. 
Thelychiton argyropus, Endl. Prod. Fl. Norf. 32, Iconogr. t. 29, ex ins. Norfolk, est. verisimiliter 
Julbophylli species nana. 
25. Sunipia, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. 179; Orch. Scel. 25, ic. ; Sert. Orch. Frontisp. n. 8; 
et Fol. Orch. 1853.—Sepala libera, squalia, patentia. Petala sepalis multo minora, lato- 
ovata. Labellum ad basin column:e sessile, erectum, sepalis parum brevius ; lobi laterales 
prope basin angustam breves, auriculiformes, obtusi, medius crassiusculus, oblongus, 
concavus, marginibus subrecurvis. Columna brevissima, lata, exalata, apoda; clinan- 
drium breve.  Anthera intra clinandrium sessilis, Rüberecta, mox a rostell aversa, 
loculis distinctis globosis sursum in valvas 2 ist dehi tibus ; pollinia 4, in 
quoque loculo 2, cerea, ovoideo-compressiusculá, libera v. demum visco A coh:zerentia. 
— Herba epiphytica, breviter reptans, Saulibus brevissimis novellis plurivaginatis, mox in 
pseudobulbum 1-phyllum carnosum Folium tenuiter multivenium. 
Scapi laterales, elongati, aphylli, ima basi vaginati. Flores parvi, in racemo terminali 
distichi, intra bracteas distichas scariosas v. subcoriaceas concavas sessiles, iisque fere 
occulti. 
Species 1, Himalaica et Burmanica. 
Genus antherarum indole nulli nisi 7Microstyli accedere videtur. Habitus potius Bulbophylli, 
quod olim a Lindleyo eum Zone (Bulbophylli specie) associatum, nec bene ab hoc genere longe 
separandum ut proposuit Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 294. 
26. Cirrhopetalum, Lindl. Bot. Reg. sub t. 8398 ; Gen. et Sp. Orch. 58. (Zygoglossum, 
Reimw. in Syll. Pl. Soc. Ratisb. ii. 4.  Hippoglossum, Breda, Orch. Kw et Hass. 
ewm ic. Ephippium, JBlwme, Bijdr. 309, t. 65.)—Sepalum posticum liberum, breve, 
lateralia multo longiora angusta v. acuminata, interdum longe caudata, basi parum 
dilatata, columnze pedi adnata, parallele patentia v. d p alte col 
Petala sepalis lateralibus multo breviora, ssepius postico subsimilia, ovata v. lanceolata, 
integra v. eleganter ciliato-serrata. Labellum basi contractum, cum pede column: arti- 
culatum v. mobile, in pedem incumbens, superne recurvum, integrum v. ad basin lamince 
utrinque auriculatum. Columna erecta, brevis, basii in pedem, producta, superne 2-alata, 
alis utrinque in dentem v. hium erectum p ti d postice truncat 
Y in dentem brevem productum. Anthera terminalis, opercularis, incumbens, Gepresso- 
, decidua ; pollinia cerea, ad normam 4, per paria in loculos 
segregata, s;pius tamen cujusve paris plus minus connata ita ut duo tantum in anthera 
ipp lata. Capsula ovata v. oblonga, nunc fere fusiformis.—Herb:e 
càule- seu hi ie repente radicante, habitu JBulbophylli. / Pseudobulbi ad axillas 
i scariosarum apice i-foliati. capi floriferi ad latera pseudobulborum aphylli, 
cc-vaginati. Flores sspe speciosi, racemo in umbellam contracto, cirea apicem scapi 
penduli, rarius pedicellis abl Ibeapitati v. pedicelli CTS laxius racemosi. 
Species ad 30, pro maxima parte Indie Orientalis v. Archipelagi Malayani incole, cum una 
Mascarensi altera Chinensi, tertia parum anomala Australians. —TAow. Orch. lles Afr. t. 98 
(Bulbophyllum). Wall. Pl. As. Rar. &. 07. Griff. Ic. Pl. 45.1. 298, 299. Wight Ic. t. 1662 ad 
1658. 4. Rich. in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, xv. t. 7 (Bulbophyllum), . Bot. Mag. t. 4391, 4418, 4422, 
4153, 4977, 4996. — Bot. Reg. 1842, 7. 12, 1843, t. 49. 
