A CENTURY OF INDIAN ORCHIDS; (J. D. HOOKER). 17 
This is one of the few species of Cirrhopetalum that may be referred to that genus or to Bulbo- 
phylium, according to whether the dorsal sepal is considered to be long or short. In the case of the 
Specimen figured it would, but for its habit, be referred to the latter genus, as it was by Reichenbach. 
As I have stated in the Flora of British India (у. 772), the species of Bulbophyllum and Cirrhopetalum 
are in many cases so closely allied by cross affinities that the two genera might well be regarded as one. 
My keeping them apart is due to the consideration of convenience, and the fact that all my attempts 
to commingle the species of both has resulted in a chaotic aggregate with most unsatisfactory sectional 
characters; in fact a far less satisfactory result than the keeping them apart, which latter course avoids 
а greatly increased synonymy. 
The drawing of Ше Khasian specimen here figured is inscribed “Khasia hills, Capt. Badgeley, fid. 
Н. B. C., January 1878”; the flowers are much larger and the dorsal вера] far longer than in the 
Tenasserim specimens. 
Fig. 1, flower; 2, dorsal and 3, lateral sepals; 4, petals; 5, column ; 6, lip; 7, 8, anther; 9, pollinia; б, ovary and 
column :—all enlarged. 
: PLATE 26. 
ÜIRRHOPETALUM (Umbellat@) GAMOSEPALUM. 
С. gamosepalum; pseudobulbis in rhizomate repente subremotis ovoideis angulatis, 
foliis obovatis lineari-obovatis-oblongisve emarginatis v. bilobis crasse coriaceis, scapo 
gracili pendulo multifloro, bracteis lanceolatis pedicillis brevibus brevioribus viridibus, 
sepalo dorsali ovato in aristam ciliatam angustato aureo-rubro-striato producto, lateralibus 
dorsali subtriplo longioribus linearibus apice rotundatis in laminam lineari-oblongam planam 
roseo-purpuream cohzrentibus, petalis sepalo dorsali fere aquilongis ciliatis et in aristam 
eiliatam productis rubro-punctatis, labello subsessile lineari-oblongo obtuso recurvo 
purpureo, columnz angulis rotundatis, Grif. Ми. iii. 296; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 774. 
C. Andersonii, Kurz in Rep. Veg. Andam. 51 (nomen). Bulbophyllum Griffithianum, Par. 
and Reichb. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 153. 
TEnasseRIM—Grifith, Parish, AwpaMAN Isps, Kurz, PERAK, Scortechini. MALACCA, 
Maingay. : 
Rhizome as thick as a crow-quill, closely articulate. Pseudobulbs $—1 in. long, green, 
4-angled. Leaves 23-4 in., subpetiolate, dark green. Scape 4—6 in., very slender, brown- 
purple, sheaths small appressed; bracts j in., green; pedicels with ovary about twice as 
long; flowers $—1 in. long. Dorsal вера! suberect, lateral cohering as a flat rose- 
purple blade with a rounded entire or crenate tip, each 5-nerved. 
Notwithstanding Griffith’s description of the rhizome of his C. gamosepalum as filiform, I feel sure 
that I was right in referring to it Kurz’s б. andamanicum; and the drawing here given confirms this 
view. Except in colour, I find no other difference except in the lip, which Griffith describes as 
acuminate. The dorsal sepal and petal he describes as blood-red; the former greenish at the base and 
the lateral as closely dotted at the base with purple; and the column as white with black-purple spots. 
Reichenbach in his very imperfect diagnosis of Bulb. Griffithianum describes the leaves and lateral 
_ sepals as acute, and omits the ciliate awned apices of the dorsal вера] and petals. Following him I des- 
cribed the lateral sepals as acute (Fl. Brit. Ind.), but I feel sure that they are only so through shrivel- 
ling. I gather from an observation in his diagnosis that Parish had suggested its being C. gamosepalum. 
The latter says the flowers are white streaked with brown. 
Ayn. Roy. Вот. Garp. Care, Vor. V. 
