772 CXLVIII. ORCHIDE/E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Sunipia. 



10. SUNIPIA, Lindl. 



A tufted epiphyte ; rhizome creeping ; pseudobulbs narrow, 1-leaved. 

 Leaf coriaceous, many- nerved. Flowers small in a distichous spike, con- 

 cealed by the imbricating bracts. Sepals very broad, subequal, spreading. 

 Petals minute, rounded-ovate. Lip small, sessile on the base of the column, 

 erect, broadly tongue-shaped ; midlobe thick, oblong, concave, margins 

 recurved. Column very short, broad ; anther suberect, sessile, persistent, 

 cells distant ; pollinia 4, ovoid, free or cohering by a viscus. 



S. scariosa, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7373; Gren. Sf Sp. Orchid. 179 ; 

 Orchid. Seel. 25; Sert. Orchid. Frontisp. No. x. ; Fol Orchid. 1. Orni- 

 thidium bracteatum, Wall. mss. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich ; Sikkim, alt. 4-6000 ft., common. 

 KHASIA MTS., alt. 3-1000 ft,, Loll, &c. TENASSEBJM ; at Moulmein, Parish. 



Pseudobulbs 1-1^ in., ovoid. Leaf 4-6 by |-1 in., subsessile, subacute, or tip 

 rounded. Scape 6-10 in., very slender; sheaths distant, tubular, truncate; spike 

 curved, 2-6 in. ; bracts - in., very broadly ovate, acute, complicate, scariously 

 coriaceous, nerved ; flowers rosy, subsessile ; ovary very short, obconic ; sepals ob- 

 scurely 3-nerved, and petals obtuse, very thick ; disk of lip with an oblong 

 callus. 



11. CIRRHOPETALUIVI, Lindl. 



Habit and characters of Bulbophyllum, but here distinguished by the 

 more often and more regularly who'rled flowers, and by the short dorsal 

 sepal, rarely half the length of the almost invariably much longer lateral. 

 Lip very small and stipitate in all the species. Species 30 or more, chiefly 

 Indian and Malayan. 



The species of Bulbophyllum and Cirrhopetalum are in many cases so allied by 

 cross affinities, that the two genera might well be regarded as one. My keeping 

 them apart is due to the consideration of convenience, and the fact that all my 

 attempts to commingle the species of both have resulted in a chaotic aggregate, 

 with most unsatisfactory sectional characters ; in fact, a far less natural result 

 than the keeping them apart. The species of this genus are far the most difficult 

 of the two, as regards analysis from dried specimens, on account of the delicacy of 

 the perianth, and the fact that the length, form, colour, and consistence of the 

 lateral sepals alter greatly during development. C. viridiflorum and Blepharistes 

 have the longer dorsal sepal of Bulbophi/llum. 



A. Flowers solitary (occasionally solitary in imperfectly developed 

 species of other groups). 



1. C. merguense, Par. Sf Eeichl. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 154 



(Bolbophyllum) ; lateral sepals \\ in. linear-lanceolate acute 5-nerved very 

 much longer than the ovate concave 5-nerved dorsal the tip of which is 

 ciliate with rigid bristles, petals like the dorsal sepal 3-nerved, lip hispid, 

 arms of column rounded. 



PEGU ; near Rangoon, Berkeley. TENASSEEIM, Parish. 



Pseudobulbs 1 in., narrow, 5-angled. Leaf l.V-2 in., narrowly oblong. Scape 

 2-3 in., filiform, sheaths 2 ; bracts linear; pedicels in., slender; flowers yellow and 

 purple ; lip purple. 



2. C. lasiochilum, Par. <$f Reiclib.f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 153 



(Bolbophyllum) ; lateral sepals 1 in. spreading falcately lanceolate subacute 

 5-nerved twice as long as the lanceolate coriaceous ciliolate dorsal, petals 

 nearly as long as the dorsal sepal thick lanceolate scabrid ciliate obscurely 

 3-nerved, lip laterally strigose, columnar teeth short hooked. 



