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119. CIRRHOPETALUM Wallichii (Gen. et sp. orch, p. 59.); Mis kn- 

 ceolatis aplce fissls scapi erecti longitudine, racemo multifloro pendulo, 

 bracteis linearibus acuminatis, sepalis glaberrlmis supremo acuminato la- 

 teralibus linearibus ligulatis vix acutis, petalis acuminatis subciliatis, 

 labello 



120. CIRRHOPETALUM Jimbriatum; pseudobulbis ovatis subtetragonis, 



foliis ovalibus , scapo erecto, bracteis linearibus acuminatis, um- 



bella multiflora, sepalis lateralibus ligulatis vix acutis cohaerentibus supremo 

 petalisque ovatis acuminatis fimbriatis, labello crasso linguiformi nudo ob- 

 tuso, columnae angulis cornutis edentulis, anthera papillosa. 



A very pretty new species of this curious genus, with the 

 long lower green sepals united into a channelled rather stiff 

 strap, while the upper sepal and the petals are broken up at 

 the margin into beautiful purple fringes. It is extremely 

 different from all the species previously known, and was im- 

 ported from Bombay by Messrs. Loddiges. In both this 

 and C. nutans the pollen-masses are four in number, and 

 collateral, all adhering together, with the interior pair much 

 smaller than the two outer. 



121. CIRRH^A saccata ; pseudobulbls ovatis obtus^ tetrapteris inter an- 

 gulos costatis, foliis oblongis plicatis sub-septem-costatis in pseudobulbos 

 omnino sessilibus, scapo pendulo trigono, racemo multifloro, sepalis oblongis 

 obtusis lateralibus margine revolutis, petalis lineari-lanceolatis obtusis basi 

 teretibus compressis, labelll lobo medio galeato saccato. 



This is a very distinct species of the curious genus 

 Cirrhsea, for which I have to thank His Grace the Duke of 

 Bedford, by whose directions it was sent me from Woburn, 

 where it flowered in August. From all the previously known 

 species it differs in the middle lobe of the lip being concave, 

 and having very much the form of that of many Satyria. 

 It has the general appearance of the other species, but its 

 raceme is nearly a foot long, and the dull yellow green 

 flowers are twice as large as those of any before discovered. 

 It has been figured in the Botanical Magazine under the 

 name o^ C fusco-lutea, which is a different plant. 



122. CYTISUS Weldenti. Host.Jl. austr. 2. 339. 



Baron Jacquin, in a letter I have recently received, ex- 

 presses his surprise at the opinion given in one of our Eng- 

 lish books that this species is the same as C. Laburnum or 

 C. alpinus. He says it is impossible to confound a plant hav- 

 ing erect racemes^ which do not droop even when in fruit, and 



