CIRRHOPETALUM. 93 
Sikkim; Griffith, G. Gammie; Pantling, No. 342; at elevations of 7,000 to 9,000 
feet; in flower in August. 
Prate 128.— Cirrhopetalum parvulum, Hook. fil. A plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 а flower, 
2 bract, stalked ovary, column, foot and lip, seen from the side, 8 petals, 4 lip, 5 column with . 
anther in situ and the curved foot, 6 anther, 7 pollinia; all enlarged. 
12, CIRRHOPETALUM CAUDATUM, King and Pantling (not of Wight). 
Rhizome’ filiform, naked, less than *1 in. in diam. Pseudo-bulbs ovoid, compressed, 
furrowed, *4 or “5 in. long and an inch or more apart. Leaf coriaceous, ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, “75 to 1 in. long and :3 to :4 in. broad, sessile or sub-sessile. Scape 
stout, its peduncle equalling or slightly exceeding the pseudo-bulb, bearing several 
sheaths near its base. Flowers. dorsally depressed, umbellately capitate, "8 to 1°35 in. 
long (to the tips of the lateral sepals), radiating; floral bract lanceolate, as long as the 
stalked ovary, Dorsal sepal *15 to 2 in. long, oblong-ovate, acuminate, vaulted over the 
column; the lateral pair five to seven times as long, lanceolate, with elongated filiform 
tips, parallel or divergent, nowhere cohering. Petals oblong-obovate, blunt, Lip about 
as long as the petals, oblong, stipitate, with erect rounded side lobes connected at the 
base by a transverse bar, the anterior half with its edge decurved all round. Column 
short, broad, with two pairs of short apical teeth, the upper pair slender, the lower 
pair broader and incurved. Anther papillose. Bulbophyllum caudatum, Lindl. in Wall. 
Cat. 1983; Gen. and Spec. Orchid., 56; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind, V, 7é9. 
Sikkim; at elevations from 1,500 to 6,000 feet; Pantlng, No. 50; in flower during 
June and July. 
The flowers are white, the sepals and petals being semi-transparent when fresh. 
This species has the umbellate inflorescence, the comparatively short. dorsal вера], 
and the elongated lateral sepals which are the only tangible characters by which 
Cirrhopetalum is distinguished from Bulbophyllum. We have therefore removed it from 
the latter to the former genus. In the Lindley Orchid Herbarium preserved at Kew, 
there is a coloured drawing (No. 1132 without specimen) named in Lindley’s own hand- 
writing ‘Bulbophyllum caudatum,” This has much shorter lateral sepals than the plant 
here figured, but in other respects it agrees well with it, The shortness of the sepals 
depicted in Lindley’s drawing may be accounted for by the points, which are extremely 
thin and fragile, having been broken off. It is possible, however, that they never were 
longer; for there is considerable variation as to the length of the lateral sepals in the 
species of Cirrhopetalum (e.g. С. ornatissimum in which they are prolonged into hair-points). 
The plant named С. caudatum by Wight is really б, vaginatum, Lindl., and is a Malayan 
species. 
PLATE 129.—Cirrhopetalun caudatum, King and Pantling. A plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 a flower, 
2 stalked ovary, column, anther i» situ, foot and lip, 3 the petals, 4 lip, half profile view, 5 column 
with the anther іп situ and foot, 6 anther, 7 pollinia; all enlarged. 
13. CIRRHOPETALUM ELATUM, Hook. fil. Іс. Plantar., t. 2052. 
Coespitose; pseudo-bulbs cylindrie, tapering to the apex, 2 to 3 in. long, usually of 
a dall copper colour. Leaf narrowly oblong, obtuse, slightly notched, tapering to the 
