G8G cxxv. oEcniDACE.T:. 



the base of a pseudobulb. Lateral sepals usually much elongated and 

 acuminate, oblique, often connate by their inner edges, their bases adnate 

 to tbe sides of the column or its foot ; dorsal sepals short, concave, rarely 

 half as long as the lateral, usually much sliorter. Petnls shorter than 

 the dorsal sepal. Lip small, tumid, usually entire, always shorter than 

 the dorsal sepal, jointed to tbe end of the foot of the column and more 

 or less mobile. Column short with 2 (rarely 4) tooth-like appendages 

 at the ai)ex, the foot more or less produced. Anther 2-celled ; pollinia 4, 

 waxy, cohering in one mass and sometimes attached by their lower ends 

 to a mass of viscid tissue, the 2 inner usually small and lamelliform. — 

 DiSTRiB. Species about 50, chiefly Indian and Malayan. 



1 . Cirrhopetalum fimbriatum, lAndl. in Bot. Rec/. (1 839) Misc. p. 72. 

 Pseudobulbs clustered, ovoid, irregularly angular, smooth and polished, 

 yellow and leafless when flowering, reaching 1 in. long. Leaves (from 

 a specimen grown at Kew) 3-4 by |-|- in., oblong-lanceolate, acute. 

 Scape from below the pseudobulbs, 4-8 in. long, slender, smooth, terete, 

 with 2 or 3 lanceolate acute bract-like scales ; flowers in umbels, nearly 

 sessile, numerous ; bracts i in. long, lanceolate, acutely acuminate. 

 Sepals green ; lateral sepals 1-lj in. long, linear, acute, flat, cohering 

 by their inner edges to near the tip, 5-nerved ; dorsal sepal reaching 

 ■5- in. long, ovate, suddenly tapering at the apex into a long subulate 

 tail, 3-nerved. Petals i in. long, ovate, caudate, fringed with purple 

 cilia, 1-nerved. Lip reddish-brown, fleshy, somewhat tongue-shaped, 

 J in. long. Column with 2 subulate horizontal horns. Fl. B. I. v. 0, 

 p. 774; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 261 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4391 ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 518 ; Gammie, in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 17, 

 part 1 (1906) p. 34. Cirrhopetalum Wallicliii, Grab. Cat. p. 205 {not 

 of Lindl.). — Flowers : Apr.-May. 



KoNKAN : stocks \, Law \, Gammie. Deccan: Parghat below Mahabloshwar, Zn:!<' .', 

 Grahcnn-, Rotunda Ghat, Mahableshwar, Grahnm; Koina Valloy below Maliablesliwar, 

 Cooke\, Woorlrow; Maliableshwar, //. M. Birdwood. S. M. CorNTuv: Parva Ghat, 

 Dahell <Si~ Gibson. Kanaka: Law I, Gammie; Supa Ghats of N. Kanara, Tdihnt, 05! 

 'J'his orchid is known to Anjjlo-Indians as tlie UmhreUa Orchis. — DiSTitiB. India 

 (W. Peninsula), apparently endemic. 



6. BULBOPHYLLUM, Thouars. 



]"ypil)liytic herbs. Pseudcbulbs from a creeping rhizome (rarely 0), 

 1 (rarely 2) -leaved. Flowers on scapes from the rhizome usually close 

 to the pseudobulbs, racemose, spicate, capitate, umbellate or solitary. 

 Sepals subequal or the lateral rather longer than the dorsal and free or 

 connate under the lip. Petals usually smaller than the dorsal sepal. 

 J>ip articulate with the foot of the column, mobile, small, usually nuich 

 recurved. Column very short, often 2-aristato at the apex. Anther 

 2-celled ; pollinia 4, free, the 2 inner smaller (rarely obsolete). — Uistrib. 

 Species nearly 300, chiefly Asiatic, a few African, American, and 

 Australian. 



]. Bulbophyllum neilgherrense, Wight, Icon. v. 5, part 1 (1852) 

 p. 6, t. l<i.">(>. JihizoiiK! crecijing. Pseudobulbs ovoid, 14-2 in. long, 

 irregularly angled. Leaf 1 from the top of the pseudobulb, 3|-6| by 

 1-1 j in., oblong, obtuse, often slightly emarginate, tapering at the base, 



