Tab, 7869. 

 CIRRHOPETALUM Hookeri. ^ 



Native of the Western Himalaya, 



Nat. Old. OacuiDE.B, — Tribe Epidendre«. 

 GenuB CiRRUOPETALUM, Lhidl. ; (Benth. & EooJe.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 50i) 



CiRRHOPETALUM, SooJceri ; pseudobulbis confertis pollicaribns ovoideis obtnsia 

 sulcatia griseo-viridibus l-foliatis, folio bipollicari elliptico-oblongis 

 lanceolatove apice bidentato in petiolum brevem angustato coriaceo supra 

 saturate viridi costa impressa, pedunculo folio longiore gracillimo vaginis 

 pancis lanceolatis instructo, umbella 6-10-flora, bracteis verticillatis \ 

 poll, longis subulatis, pedicellis cum ovariis bracteis longioribus, floribua 

 pollicaribus ochroleucis, sepalo dorsali i-poll. longo oblongo obtuso infra 

 medium purpureo striate, lateralibas lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis con- 

 vexis basi auriculatis, petalis sepalo dorsali brevioribus ovatis apice 

 rotnndatis, labello decurvo marginibus incrasaatis incurvia carnosia 

 crenatis, columna apice bicuspidata. 



C. Hookeri, DutMe in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. Ixxi. pars II. (1902) p. 38 ; in 

 Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutt. vol. x. ined. 



Cirrhopdalum Hookeri is a very recent discovery, of 

 interest as occurring in the province of Garwlial, which is 

 further to the west in the Himalaya than the genus was 

 supposed to reach. Two species had long been known to 

 be natives of Kumaon, the adjoining province to the easfc 

 of Garwhal, namely, G. maculosum, Lindl., and C, refrac- 

 tnm, ZolL, and many species are found in the Eastern 

 Himalaya. Its nearest ally is, as Mr. Duthie has pointed 

 out, G. c3Sspitosum, Wall., a native of the Sikkim-Hiraalaya 

 and the Khasia Hills, in Eastern Bengal, which differs in 

 being of a much smaller size, and having proportionately 

 much larger, erose, dorsal sepal and petals ; the flowers 

 are yellow in both, but much paler in G. casspitosum, and 

 showing no purple markings. This latter is, however, a 

 variable character in G. IlooJceri, the cultivated specimen 

 here figured wanting the bright red veins on the lateral 

 sepals described by Mr. Duthie in the native specimens, 

 and figured in an unpublished plate prepared for a forth- 

 coming volume of the " Annals of the Royal Botanic 

 Garden of Calcutta." G. Hookeri was discovered by 

 Mr. Mackinnon's collector, growing epiphytically on 

 Iihodode7i(lron arhoretim, at elevations of five thousand feet 



December 1st, 1902. 



