CIRRHOPETALUM. 105 
half grooved. Column with very short sharp teeth; its foot short, slightly curved, 
Ап ее рарШозе, its lip acute. Hook. f. Fl, Br. Ind. v, 767; in Ann. Roy Bot. 
Gard. v, pt. 1, 15, t. 23; King & Ра. in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Cale. viii, 
70, t. 95. 
Dehra Dun, Gamble, Mackinnon (Duthiés No. 24147); Garhwál, up to 4,000 feet, 
Mackinnon ; flowering in March. It was found by Wallich in Nepal, and occurs also in 
Sikkim in the valley of the Teesta at au elevation of 1,500 feet. 
3. BULBOPHYLLUM REPTANS Lindl, in Wall. Cat. 1988. 
Rhizome thin, wiry, naked, branching; pseudo-bulbs distant, obpyriform, smooth, up to 
2 cm. in length. Leaf 9 to 15 cm. long, linear-oblong, subacute, obliquely notched at 
the apex, slightly narrowed at the base to the very short petiole. сарез shorter or 
longer than the leaves, often in pairs, slender and more or less decurved ; peduncle sheathed 
at the base, bracteate, longer or shorter than the laxly-flowered raceme; floral bract of 
the lower flowers of the spike longer than those of the upper, oblong-lanceolate, usually 
longer than the shortly-stalked ovary. lowers 7—9 mm. long, yellowish with purple spots. 
Sepals subequal, lanceolate, 9-nerved, sperading, the lateral pair with dilated bases. Petals 
much shorter than the sepals, oblong, blunt, l-nerved, spreading. Jip about as long as 
the petals, stipitate, deflexed from the middle, oblong, expanded and grooved at the 
base, apex narrowed and subacute, margins more or less winged. Column with filiform 
apical processes and short lateral wings; the foot short and curved, tumid near the 
stigma. Pollina subglobose, the two inner small. Lindl. Gen. and Sp, Orch. 51; Hook. 
f. Fl. Br. Ind. v, 768; King & Pantl. in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Cale. viii, 77, t. 
106. В. Clarke Reichb. f. in Journ. Linn. бос. хху,! 72. Tribrachia reptans Lindi. 
Coll. Bot. t. 41A. ! 
Garhwál, east of Tehri, at about 5,000 feet, Mackinnon ; flowering at the beginning 
of the cold season. The species extends eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim and the Khasia 
and Naga Hills. 
6. Cirrhopetalum Lindi. 
Epiphytal. Rhizome creeping, but sometimes caspitose; pseudo-bulbs 1- rarely 2- 
leaved. Leaves coriaceous and persistent, rarely membranous and deciduous. Scape 
rising from the base of a pseudo-bulb. Flowers usually in whorled umbels, cr capitate, 
rarely racemose, often dorsally compressed. . Dorsal sepa! concave, short, rarely half as 
long as the lateral pair, usually much shorter; lateral sepals usually much elongate and 
acuminate, oblique, often cohering by their edges, the bases adnate to the sides of 
the column or of its foot. Petals shorter than the dorsal sepal, Lip small, tumid, 
usually entire, always shorter than the dorsal sepal, jointed to the end of the foot 
of the column and more or less mobile, Column short; its apex with two (rarely 
four) ,tooth-like appendages; the foot more or less produced. Anther 2-сеПей; pollinia 4, 
cohering in а singie mass and sometimes attached by their lower ends to в mass 
of viscid tissue: the inner two usually small and lamelliform.--Species about 40, 
chiefly Indo-Malayan. 
Any. Вот. Вот. GARD Cato, Vor, LX. 
