CIRRHOPETALUM. 91 
Sikkim; at the foot of the hills; common; Pantling, No. 148; in flower in May. 
The dorsal sepal of this is greenish with a few brownish-red markings; the lateral 
sepals are ochraceous, minutely spotted with reddish-brown and with a few lines of 
the same colour near the base. The petals are ochraceous with three broad reddish- 
brown nerves and purplish marginal cilie. The upper surface of the lip is of the 
same colour as the lateral sepals, but darker, The anther is yellow and the column 
is white with a pink patch in front, marked with elongate brown dots. The ovary 
is greenish-yellow wiih brown spots. The nearest ally of this species is C. Roxburg hit, 
Lindl., a species hitherto collected only in the Sunderbuns. It is also allied to 
C. gamosepalum, Griff, a plant common from Burma southwards to Malacca and not 
infrequent in the Andaman Islands, From C. Roxburghii this differs in its petals 
having only three nerves, much coarser marginal cilie, and а more obtuse apex 
terminated by a shorter awn; and in “its lateral sepals being more obtuse, connate 
almost to the apex, and ochraceous with dots, instead of pure yellow. The scape 
of this is moreover shorter and the leaves not only shorter but also broader than 
is the case in C. Roxburghii. 
Рглте 125.—Cirrhopetalum Sikkimense, King and Pantling. A plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 a 
flower, 2 bract, stulked ovary, column and its foot, and the lip, 3 the petals, 4 lip, 5 column, its 
bidentate shoulders with anther in situ, and its foot, 6 anther, 7 pollinia; all enlarged. 
9. OrRRHoPETALUM SARCOPHYLLUM, King and Pantling in — As. Бос: Bengal, 
Vol. LXIV, pt. 2, 335. 
Rhizome 1 in. thick, naked, remotely annular; pseudo-bulbs discoid, about °15 or 
'2 in. thick, :3 or ‘4 in. broad, and from 2 to 3 in. apart, each with a fringe of. long 
fibres at its base. Leaf pendulous, very fleshy, oblong, sub-faleate, tapering to the 
acute apex and at the base to the thick terete petiole; length 5 to 9 in., breadth 
1°25 to 1°5 in.; petiole “75 to 1 in. Scape about half as long as the leaf; the 
peduncle sheathed at the base and bearing at intervals two lanceolate bracts. Umbel 
3- to 7-flowered. Flowers “75 in. long; floral bract ovate, acute, shorter than the 
stalked ovary. Dorsal sepa] free at its base from the lateral pair, ovate, acuminate, 
concave, ‘35 in. long, depressed; the lateral pair rather more than twice as long, 
falcate-lanceolate, sub-acuminate, cohering just under’ the apex. for about one-third 
of their length, glandular-puberulous like the dorsal. Petals oblong, falcate, sub: 
acute, much shorter than the dorsal вера. Тір oblong, deeply grooved in the 
basal half; the anterior half smooth, the apex sub-acute. Column stout, with two 
long erect subulate sub-divergent apical teeth; the ‘foot short, very slightly curved, 
with two raised lines down its centre. Pollinia narrowly pyriform, the inner two 
less than half as large as the outer. 
Sikkim; at elevations of from 3,000 to 5,000 feet ; Pantling, No. 95; in flower 
from June to September according to E 
The sepals and petals are reddish-brown, much mottled; the lip is purple with 
deeper blotches. A species with a considerable vertical distribution. At low eleva- 
tions it appears as a dwarf, and to this dwarf we have given the following 
varietal name. 
Var. minor. Leaves 2 to 3 in. long; scape “75 to 1 in., flower *45 in. long. 
Axx. Roy, Dor. GARD., CALCUTTA, Vor. VIII. 
