64 : ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
base, sessile or sub-sessile, 8 to 10 in. long and 1 to 1:25 in. broad. Scape as long 
as the leaves, slightly decurved, slender, speckled with purple, and with two or three 
small bracts; umbels many-flowered, Flowers about 775 in. long, radiating; floral bract 
. much shorter than the stalked ovary. Dorsal sepal free at its base from the lateral pair, 
broadly ovate, sub-acute, depressed, the lateral pair three or four times as long as the 
dorsal, narrowly oblong, faleate, sub-acute, not cohering. Petals falcately triangular, 
with oblique bases. ip oblong, tapering to the sub-acute apex, entire, the base slightly 
dilated, the uppér surface with a shallow mesial groove on its basal half. Column slightly 
winged; the apical teeth minute, decurved; the foot slender, much curved. Hook. fil. 
Fl, Br. Ind. V, 775. 
Sikkim; at elevations of 5,000 to 6,000 feet; Clarke, Gamble; Jaldacca valley, 
6,000 feet; Pantling, No. 160; in flower in May. 
The flowers are of a dirty yellow, spotted with purple. This is closely allied to 
C. picturatum; G. Lodd,—a Burmese species which, however, has awned dorsal _ sepals, 
erose petals, and a column with long subulate apical teeth. 
Рглтв 130.—Cirrhopetalum elatum, Hook. fil. A plant; of natural sise. Fig. 1 а flower, 2 petals, 8 
bract, long-stalked ovary, column with the anther in situ, foot and lip, seen from the side, 4 lip, 
5 column, showing its narrowly winged sides and small apical teeth, the anther and the slender 
eurved foot, 6 anther, 7 pollinia ; alt enlarged. 
14. CIRRHOPETALUM GUTTULATUM, Hook. fil Fl. Br. Ind. V, 276. 
Pseudo-bulbs coespitose, crowded, ovoid, tapering much to the apex, 1 to 2 in. 
long. Leaf elliptic-oblong, sub-acute, tapering much to the channelled petiole; length 
3 to 6 in. breadth 8 to 1:22 in.; petiole "5 to “75 in. Scape equalling or exceeding the 
` leaf, decurved,. spotted with purple, with two sheathing bracts at the base and several 
scattered along the peduncle. Flowers about :75 in. long, in umbels of 6 to 9 on long 
pedicels; floral bract ovate, acuminate, much shorter than the long pedicel of the ovary. 
Dorsal sepal free at its base from the lateral pair, broadly ovate, apiculate, very concave, 
vaulted over the column; lateral sepals free, about twice as long as the dorsal, ovate- 
lanceolate from a broad base, sub-faleate, sub-acute, their upper margins incurved, coher- 
ing only at the base, the apices divergent. Petals broadly elliptic, shortly apiculate, 
shorter than the dorsal sepal, spreading. Lip deflexed from the middle, oblong with a 
very broad base, the apex minutely emarginate ; the under surface with a grooved keel. 
Column stout, with broad rectangular wings, the apical teeth long, filiform, decurved; the 
foot rather toss, its apex upturned.  Pollinia ellipsoid, attached to a ball of viscid 
cheesy matter, the inner two very small Bulbophyllum umbellatum, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 
1984; in Bot. Reg. 1845, t. 44; Bot. Mag. t. 4267; Reichb. fil. in Walp, Ann. VI, 264. 
B. guttulatum, Wall. MSS. 
Sikkim; at altitudes of from 2,000 to 5,000 feet; not uncommon; Griffith (No. 5180, 
Kew Distrib.); Pantling, No. 53. Nepal; Wallich. Khana and Assam Hill Ranges; in 
flower from July to September. 
The flowers of this are of a pale yellow, beautifully spotted with purple, the lip 
being almost entirely purple. What is probably this species has been recently collected 
in the Shan States in Burma, but the specimens ате not in flower. This much resembles 
С. maculosum, Lindl., but has longer scapes and much longer columnar processes. : 
