Cirrhopetalum.'] CXLVIH. OROHIDEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) 779 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; at Darjeeling (Griffith's Collectors}. 



Rhizome slender, flexuous ; pseudobulbs 4-j in., ovoid or narrower. Leaf 1 in., 

 elliptic or linear- oblong obtuse; petiole short. Scape 2 in., naked; flowers 2-3, 

 scarcely umbelled ; bracts |-g- in. 



30. C. acutiflorum, A. Sick, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, xv. 18, t. 7 



(Bolbophyllum) ; lateral sepals | in. linear-lanceolate acuminate 7-nerved 

 twice or thrice as long as the falcately ovate-lanceolate long-acuminate 

 5-nerved dorsal, petals broadly oblong 3-nerved, tip rounded, lip with 

 uncinate recurved basal lobes, columnar teeth minute. Reichb. f. in 

 Walp. Ann. vi. 263. 



NILGHIRI HILLS ; at Ootacamund, Perrottet ; Conoor, Wight. 



Pseudobulbs f-1 in., globosely ovoid. Leaf l-|-2 in., oblong. Scape slender, 

 about equalling the leaves ; sheaths 2-3 ; umbels 6-8-fld. ; bracts in., lanceolate ; 

 pedicels longer, slender ; flowers greenish white or creamy. Specimens very in- 

 different. Very near Bolboph. albidum, 



D. Flowers racemose (or very shortly subumbellate in C. Macraei). 

 See also C. parvulum, and others in Sect. C. 



31. C. refractum, Zollinger in Flora 1847, 457 ; lateral sepals 

 1-2^ in. strap-shaped acuminate cohering to the tips, many times longer 

 than the lanceolate awned ciliate dorsal, petals lanceolate ciliate and 

 pubescent, columnar spurs long slender decurved. Walp, Ann. i. 776. 

 C. Wallichii, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 1980 ; in Sot. Reg. 1839, Misc. 71 ; 

 1843, under t. 49 (not of Wall. PI. As. Ear.}. C. tripudians, Par. fy ReicJib.f. 

 in Gard. Chron. 1876, 817. Bulbophyllum tripudians, ejusd. in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xxx. 154. B. refractum, Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 259. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Kumaon, alt. 3700 ft., Strachey $" Winter - 

 bottom, to Sikkun, alt. 4-5000 ft., J. D. H., &c. TBNABSEBIM, Parish. DISTEIB. 

 Java. 



Pseudobulbs short, conical, crowded. Leaves 2 on young pseudobulbs, 4-5 in., 

 lanceolate, acute. Scape stout, 4-6 in. ; raceme few- or many-fld., nodding; bracts 

 large, ovate or lanceolate ; pedicels very short ; dorsal sepal 3-uerved, orange ; lateral 

 3-5-nerved, golden yellow ; petals 3-nerved and lip speckled with red ; lip sub- 

 cylindric, hispid or glabrate. 



32. C. viridiflorum, Hook. f. Ic. Plant, ined.; lateral sepals in. 

 ovate-lanceolate acute cohering to the tips twice as long as the ovate acute 

 dorsal, petals suborbicular, columnar arms erect hatchet-shaped apiculate. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 6-7000 ft., Treutler, &c. KHASIA HILLS ; at -Shillong, 

 alt. 5500 ft., Clarke. 



Pseudobulbs 1 in., subovoid. Leaves 2, 4-6 in., elliptic -lanceolate, subacute. 

 Scape as long; raceme 2-4 in., nodding; bracts ovate-lanceolate, membranous; 

 flowers subsessile ; sepals 5-7-nerved, green ; petals 1-nerved and short lip purple. 

 Closely allied to C. refractum, though the dorsal sepal is long enough for a 

 Bulbophyllum. 



33. C. Blepharistes, Reichb. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. (Bolbo- 

 phyllum) ; lateral sepals 1 in. linear-lanceolate acuminate coherent three 

 times as long as the lanceolate acuminate dorsal, petals broadly oblong 

 or obovate fitubriate, columnar arms minute. 



KHASIA HILLS, Badgeley (Ic. in Herl. Calculi.). TENASSEEIM, Parish. 



Pneudobulbs 1^-3 in., on a very stout rhizome, oblong. Leaves 23 in., oblong, 

 very thick. Scape 6-12 in. ; raceme short, erect, dense -fid. ; rachis stout ; bracts 

 minute, acute, persistent ; pedicels | in., slender j lateral sepals 7-nerved, pale 



