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the pseudobulbs ovate, tetragonal, the thick fleshy leaves 

 oblong, and the flowers, though not large, capitate and very 

 numerous ; the sepals are dull pale yellow spotted with pink, 

 and drawn out into long drooping threads at the apex, so that 

 the inflorescence looks like a head with long hair hanging 

 down, from whence its name has been derived. It should 

 find a place in every collection for its perfectly unique 

 appearance . — Singapore. 



¥lG.—Bot. Reg., 1842, t. 12; Vr. Tllust. Orch., t. 12 ; Bot. Mag., t. 4977 ; 

 Belg. Mort., viii. t. 12 ; Moore, III. Orch. PL, Cirrhopetalum, t. i, ; Batevi. 

 2nd Cent, t. 148. 



C. Pahudii, VHese. — This is another very curious and 

 interesting plant. The habit is dwarf, the leaves dark green, 

 the flowers arranged in an umbel, large, reddish brown, with 

 bright red dots ; the sepals and petals are turned back, giving 

 it a most singular appearance. It should be grown on a 

 block of wood in the East Indian house. — Java. 



^IQ.—Vriese, Illust. Orch., tt. 3, 11. 



CLEISOSTOMA, Bhcme. 

 {Tribe Vandese, subtribe Sarcantheae.) 



A genus of epiphytal plants, with leafy stems, clothed with 

 distichous spreadingleathery leaves, usually flat but sometimes 

 terete, and lateral peduncles bearing simple or branched 

 racemes, the flowers for the most part small, and therefore 

 such as are not much esteemed by the majority of Orchid 

 fanciers, but nevertheless there are some of the species which 

 would form ornaments in our collections. Some fifteen species 

 are described — Indian, Malayan, or Australian. 



Culture. — They require the same treatment as A'erides. 



C. crassifolium, Lindley. — This distinct plant has close-set 

 thick leathery much recurved leaves, resembling those of a 

 Vanda ; it produces its nodding panicles of sea-green, rosy- 

 lipped flowers from the axils of the leaves ; and although the 

 individual flowers are small it is a charming plant. — India : 

 probably Moidmein. 



'EiQ.—Paxt. Fl. Gard., in. t. 29 ; Lem. Jard. FL, t. 397. 



