780 CXLVIII. ORCHISES. (J. D. Hooker.) [Cirrhopetalum t 



yellow-green with faint red nerves, buses rounded together forming a cordate- 

 lanceolate blade; petals 5-nerved, yellow tipped with red. Dorsal sepal of a Bullo- 

 phyllum, but whole habit of Cirrhopetalum. The colours are taken from the 

 drawing with obovate petal--. 



34 C. IHacraei, Lindl. Gen. ft Sp. Orchid. 59 ; in Sot. Reg. 

 52 ; lateral sepals 2 in. narrowly linear-lanceolate with long filiform tips 

 coherent three times as long as the lanceolate acuminate dorsal, petals 

 falcately ovate-lanceolate, columnar arms long broad horizontal crenate on 

 one side. Sot. Mag. t. 4422. C. Walkerianum, Wight Ic. t. 1657. Bulbo- 

 phyllum Walkerianum, Reichb.f. in Wul p. Ann. vi. 203. 



CEYLON ; in the Hantani and Hewahette districts, alt. 3-4000 f fc. 



Pseiulobtdbs small, ovoid. Leaves 3-5 in., petioled, oblong, subacute. Scape 

 6 in., very slender ; flowers between umbelled and racexose ; bracts long, ovate- 

 lanceolate ; pedicels very short ; sepals pale yellow and scarlet, lateral 5- dorsal 3- 

 nerved ; petals 3 nerved, scarlet. 



SPECIES UNKNOWN TO ME. 



B. (Cirrhopetalum) MANNII, Reichb.f. in Flora 1872, 275 ; leaf petioled cuneate- 

 oblong obtusely acute dilated above, peduncle deflexed, umbel few-fld., mentum 

 angled, sepals golden with many brown specks, dorsal lanceolate aristate, lateral 

 contiguous caudately narrowed from a broad base, petals ligulate ' decurved awued 

 from the middle, lip thick curved somewhat margined 2-edged with a small callus at 

 the base of the claw, column dilated at the base, arms curved retuse, base 

 above 1-toothed, lip 2-toothed, lower tooth obtuse. Assam, Mann. Probably near 

 C. connttum. 



C. T^NIOPHYLLTJM, Par. % Reichb.f. in Trimen Journ. Sot. 1874, 198 (Bolbo- 

 phyllum); pseudobulb conic, top narrowed, when dry furrowed lengthwise and across, 

 leaf cuneate ligulate obtuse acute longer than the peduncle, flowers yellow with 

 purple dots, bracts broadly triangular 1 -nerved not equalling the pedicelled ovary, 

 dorsal sepal short triangular 1-nerved, lateral 34 times longer coherent, bases free 

 acute 3-nerved, petals ligulate acute 3 -nerved, lip 2-udgeil \ -lunate, column bisetose. 

 Tenasserim, Parish. 



12. TRIAS, Lindl. 



Small epiphytes with the habit and foliage of Sulbophyllum. Scape 

 lateral, 1-fld. Sepals subeqnal, spreading, 7-nerved, lateral adnate to the 

 foot of the column. Petals small, oblong or linear. L\p small, coriaceous 

 or fleshy, jointed on to the foot of the column, inflexed, incumbent, mobile. 

 Column short, broad, tip angled, winged or toothed ; anther erect, caducous, 

 2-celled; produced into a long horn ; pollinia subcoherent in pairs in each 

 cell. Species 3, all Indian. 



1. T. oblong-a, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 1977; Gen. $ Sp. Orchid. 60; 

 leaves elliptic or oblong obtuse, sepals subacute, petals ovate, lip trulliform 

 subacute with erect auricles, horn of anther notched at the tip. Wall. PL 

 As. Ear. i. 55, t. 70. Boll>. ob'.ongum, Reichb. f. in Wai p. Ann. vi. 249. 

 Dendrobium tripterum, Wall. mss. 



TENASSEBIM ; at Moulmein, WalHch, Griffith, Parish. 



Pseudobulbs - in. diam. Leaves 1-1 i in. long. Scape very slender, i-1 in. 

 Flower 1 in. diam.; lip grooved in the middle. Lindley describes the flowers as 

 brownish green, and lip as purple. Parish has flowers yellow. 



2. T. picta, Benih. in Gen Plant, iii. 505 ; leaves ovate or elliptic- 

 lanceolate contracted at the tip or at both ends, sepals subacute, petals 

 obovate deflexed, lip oblong granulate, tip rounded, horn of anther entire. 



