18 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
I think it probable that C. gamosepalum is a littoral species, as it extends from Tenasserim to 
Malacca and the Andamans. The drawing here reproduced was from an Andaman specimen which 
flowered in the Calcutta Garden. There are specimens in Herb. Kew from all the given localities, 
except from Griffith’s of Mergui (in Tenasserim). 
Fig. 1, flower, side view; 2, do., front view; 3, flowers with the lateral sepals removed and the dorsal and petals 
displaced; 4 and 6, lateral sepals; 6, lip; 7, anther; 8, pollinia :—a4/ enlarged. 
PLATE 27. 
CrRRHOPETALUM (Umbellate) casPrrosuM, Wall. 
C. cespitvsum; pseudobulbis confertis ovoideis, foliis petiolatis lanceolatis oblongo- 
lanceolatisve acutis, scapo foliis breviore, vaginis brevibus laxis, umbella confertiflora, 
floribus flavis v. virescentibus, sepalo dorsali cymbiforme v. orbiculare galeato 5-nervi 
petalisque erosis, lateralibus liberis dorsali ter longioribus lineari-lanceolatis obtusis, 
petalis ovato-oblongis v. orbiculari-ovatis subacutis sepalo dorsali aquilongis 3-nerviis, 
labello breviter stipitato minuto ovato basi dilatato cordato obtuso aureo basi purpureo 
arcte reflexo, column dentibus acicularibus erectis. Wall. in Boi. Reg. 1838, Mise. 
35 её 1843 sub. é 49; Hook, f. Рі. Brit. Ind. v. 775. Bulbophyllum scabratum, Reichd. 
f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 259. 
Нав.--КнавА Ния, Griffith, Gibson. 
Pseudobulbs 5—1 in., dark green, purplish at the top, smooth. Scape 2 in., slender, 
inclined, red-brown; bracts 1 in., lanceolate, shorter than the ovary, which with the 
pedicel is 4 in.; flowers 2—2 in. long, рарШове. Dorsal sepal apiculate, lateral with 
involute margins, nerves of petals flexuous. 
The hairs on the dorsal sepal and petals of the drawing are intended to represent the cellular or 
papillose erose texture of these organs. The different colour of the flowers of the specimen figured and 
the enlarged one is not easily accounted for, and the enormous column represented at fig. 3 is quite 
unlike that of any species of the genus known to me. On the other hand, the habit of the plant 
is entirely that of C. cespilosum, assuming that the flowers have not spread in an umbellate form, 
_ аз they should до. 
The drawing here reproduced is inscribed * Cirrhopetalum ecspitosum, Mr. J. Gibson, 1836" in 
Wallich’s writing. The figure differs from Lindley’s description in the dorsal sepal being ciliate and 
not scabrid, and in the petals not being peotinately serrate, also in the large size of the lip. In 
the Flora of British India the lateral sepals are described as obtuse. ` 
Fig. 1, flower; 2, petal; 3, column and lip; 4, pollinia:—all enlarged. 
PLATE 28, 
| СТВЕНОРЕТАТОМ (Racemose) BEFRACTUM, Zollinger. 
عم‎ C. refractum ; pseudobulbis diphyllis confertis ovoideis v. conicis, junioribus globosis 
S ae зере lobatis, foliis sessilibus lanceolatis acutis, scapo suberecto pauci-v. multi- 
— e sub-spicatis remotis 2-pollicaribus, bracteis ovario brevi longioribus 
Doo ee — lateralibus dorsali minuto lanceolato aristato ciliato multoties 
1011018 anguste loriformibus in laminam planam 
auream rubro-striatam cohsrentibus, 
