56 ORCHIDACEM 



Cjnrtopodium speciosissimum, Hort. ex Du Buysson, L^ Orchid. 



299 (1878). — Fl des Serves 22 : 179 (1879). 

 Cjrrtopodium tigrinum, Linden, III. Hort. 28 : 95 (1881). — 



nomen tantum. 

 Cyrtopodium Saintlegerianum, Reichenbacli, f ., Flora 68 : 301 



(1885) ; Gard. Chr. n. ser. 23: 756 (1885) ; ser. 3, 4 : 180, fig. 



20 (1888); n OrchidopUle, 1885, p. 195; Jour. Hort. 12: 



255, fig. 46 (1886) ; Kew Bull. add. ser. 4 : 140. 

 Cyrtopodium punctatum, var. Saintlegerianum, Hort., Stein, Or- 



chideenh. 181 (1892). — WiUiams, Orch. Gh^ow. Man. ed. 7, 



p. 320. 



This species was first described in 1703 by Plumier as follows : 

 "Helleborine ramosissima cauliculis & floribus maculosis," and 

 later, in January, 1833, published by John Lindley in The 

 Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants, p. 188, as Cyrtopo- 

 dium punctatum, with the following characterization : " C. foliis 

 lanceolatis plicatis, scapo paniculato, vaginis maximis laxis mem- 

 branaceis, sej)aHs petalisque undulatis acutis maculatis, labelli lobis 

 lateraHbus cuneatis intermedio rotundato papiloso. . . . Discus 

 labelli inter lobos laterales tuberculatus." 



Pseudobulbs 17-30 cm. or more high, 1.5-3 cm. thick, elon- 

 gated fusiform with about fourteen articulations ; the old pseudo- 

 bulbs naked or clothed with whitish scarious bracts, the more 

 recent ones leafy. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, plicate, distich- 

 ous, spreading, at length drooping, distinctly 3-5 nerved, 1-6 dm. 

 long, 1-3 cm. wide. Scape lateral and basal, stout, jointed, inflo- 

 rescence paniculate above. Bracts 5-12 cm. long, sheathing, 

 oblong-lanceolate, undulate margined, similar in coloration and 

 maculation to the sepals. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, acute, similar, 

 margins strongly undulate, greenish-yellow, irregularly marked 

 with oblong, madder-brown spots; the upper one 8-25 mm. 

 long, 8-11 mm. wide, lateral ones 15-20 mm. long, 7-9 mm. 

 wide. Petals obovate, shortly clawed or sessile, inserted at the 

 base of the column, where it curves into the foot, bright yellow, 



