90 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
7. CiRRHOPETALUM ANDERSONI, Hook. fil. Ie. Plantar. t. 2055. 
(not of Kurz). 
Riizome naked, °2 in. thick; pseudo-bulb elliptic or ovoid, smooth, with many slightly 
spreading fibres at the base, 1 to 1°25 in. long and 1:5 to 2 in. apart. Геғ/ oblong, 
tapering slightly to the sub-acute apex, the base rather suddenly narrowed, sessile 
or sub-sessile; length 93:5 to 5 in., breadth :85 to 1'35 in. Scape somewhat shorter 
than the leaves, slender, the peduncle speckled with brownish-purple and bearing two 
lanceolate-oblong sheaths ‘5 in. long. Flowers dorsally compressed, “65 in. long, five or 
six in a radiate umbel; floral bract minute, oblong, acute, much shorter than the 
rather long-stalked ovary. Dorsal sepal oblong-ovate, shortly awned at the apex; the 
lateral pair three or four times as long as the dorsal, dimediate-oblong-obovate, falcate, 
the inner edges coherent, the apices blunt., Petals slightly longer than the dorsal 
sepals, broadly oblong, 3-nerved, the apices acute and awned, the edges slightly erose. 
Lip narrowly oblong, with blunt emarginate apex and entire edges, decurved from 
the middle, Column stout, thick, winged, apical teeth very short, the foot much 
curved. Lip of anther pectinate, pollinia elongate. Hook. fil Fl. Br. Ind. V, 777. 
Sikkim; Anderson; in the valley of the Teesta, at an altitude of about 1,500 feet; 
Pantling, No. 300; in flower in October. 
The flowers are of a delicate pink, with minute spots of a darker tint. Collected 
only twice—once by the late Dr. T. Anderson, after whom it is named, and once by 
Mr. Pantling. In shape the flowers are very like those of C. boofanense, but the scapes 
are very much longer. This species also very closely resembles €. gamosepalum, Grif., 
which has, however, a scape decurved from its base. 
Pirate 124 —Cirrhoprtalum Andersoni, Hook. fil. А plant ; of natural size. Fig. 1 flower, 2 тас, 
stalked ovary, column, foot and lip of a flower which has probably been fertilised, seen from the 
side, З petals, 4 a complete lip and the emarginate apex of another, 5 column with anther tn situ 
and foot, 6 anther, 7 pollinia; all enlarged. 
8. CIRRHOPETALUM ŠIKKIMENSE, King and Pantling, n. species. 
Rhizome naked, about ‘15 in. thick ; pseudo-bulbs ovoid-globose, about “5 in. apart and 
З or '4 in. long. Leaf very fleshy, oblanceolate, obtuse, obliquely notched, narrowed to the 
base, sessile or sub-sessile, 1:5 to 2 in. long. Scape shorter or very little longer than the 
leaves (about 2 in. long), sub-erect, with two sheathing bracts, and at the apex a radiating 
umbel of ten to twelve flowers about :5 in. long; floral bract lanceolate, acuminate, 
shorter than the stalked ovary. Dorsal sepal about "15 or ‘2 in. long, free from the lateral 
pair at its base, concave, lying over the column, ovate-acute, the tip upturned and with 
several soft hairs on its edges; lateral sepals three or four times as long as the 
dorsal, narrowly oblong, very blunt, sub-faleate, coherent except at the bases; their 
apices obtuse, entire. Petals ovate, sub-acute, with very oblique bases, 3-nerved, the 
edges ciliate-aristate and with one strong long apical awn. Isp broadly ovate at the 
base, much narrowed in the anterior half, the apex obtuse, the edges entire; 
the upper surface smooth, slightly concave, having a slender raised line down its 
centre. Column broad, with short bidentate shoulders; the foot long, much curved. 
Poilinia very unequal, the inner two very small. 
