Piate 2049. 
BULBOPHYLLUM CIRRHATUM, Hook. f: 
OrcHipEm. Subtribe DenpRosiez. 
oblongo carinis infra mediu asin versus J ties instructo.—Ione 
cirrhata, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Ione 1; Walp. 3. 
Has. Sikkim Himalaya, alt. 4,000 feet, J. D. H. te Cathsart). 
Rhizoma robustum, nudum, ad pseudobulbos radicans. Pseudobulbi 
1-1} poll. longi, teretes. Folia sessilia 4- 6 poll. longa, vix in petiolum 
angustata, multinervia. Scapus basi ascendens, dein strictus, erectus, 
unacum racemo paucifloro ]2-pollicaris, vaginis #—1 poll. longis auctus; 
bractee 5-2 poll. longs, subacute, concave, — unacum ovario 
subduplo longiores. ores expansi 1 poll. longi, + poll. lati, sordide 
albi purpureo striati; sepalum dorsale subacutum, 5. nerve, lateralia in 
labium cymbiforme 2-fidum connata ; petala 7-nervia, sepalis dimidio 
mia ae p 
um, sup 
crassa, apice bifida, cruribus porrectis acutis. oo ad icon. 
beati dom. Gathcarti, i in Herbario Kewensi servatam 
Lindley in his ‘Folia Orchidacea’ describes three Himalayan species 
of Ione with tall stout scapes, of which two require reinvestigation. 
The three are I. paleacea, figuredjin op Mag. t. 6344; I. fusco-purpurea 
(Dipodium, Griff. Notul. iii. 405) ; d the present plant, which differs 
rom B. paleaceum in the obtuse helo and shorter and narrower 
obtuse sepals.—J. D. H. 
Fig 1. Flower. 2. Column and spur, Both enlarged. 
