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and obliquely ovate, rounded at the apex, yellow tinged with reddish-purple at the 
base. Lip deflexed from about the middle, oblong, with the margins incurved and 
forming a deep furrow on the upper surface, thick and fleshy, yellow with reddish- 
purple spots on the raised margins of the basal portion. Column with a long incurved 
foot; apical processes two, triangular, setaceous. Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 7869. 
Garhwál near Tehri, epiphytic on Rhododendron arboreum at elevations between 5 
and 6,000 feet, Mackinnon’s collector (Duthie's No. 25402). 
This species is most nearly related to C. cespitosum Wall, a native of the Sikkim Himalaya 
and the Khasia Hills, from which it differs by its larger size, more reunded pseudo-bulbs and much 
longer scapes. The lateral sepals adhere at the base only, and the petals are obtuse and quite entire ; 
the shape of the lip is also different. Тһе Botanical Magazine plate, alluded to above, was prepared 
from living specimens sent to Kew early in 1902. 
Prate 101. Cirrhopetalum Hookeri Duthie,—Portion of plant,—of natural size. Fig. 1, 
single flower, side view; 2, the same, seen from the front; 3, dorsal sepal; 4 and 5, lip; 6, 
column and ovary with lip attached ; T, column with йр removed; 8, anther; 9, pollinia ;— 
all enlarged. 
3. CIRRHOPETALUM REFRACTUM Zollinger in Flora (1847), 456. 
Ceespitose ; pseudo-bulbs crowded, conical and with broad bases, short, wrinkled at 
flowering time. Leaves in pairs from the apex of а pseudo-bulb, deciduous at flowering 
time, 8:5 to 12:5 em. long, narrowly oblong, acute, contracted at the base, sessile. Ped- 
uncle 10 to 15 em. long, erect, slender, sheathed at the base and with two ovate- 
acuminate bracts; raceme drooping, 3:5 to 9 cm. long, 4—12-flowered; floral braci 
ovate-acuminate, much longer than the short subsessile ovary. lowers 4 to 6°5 cm, 
long, decurved. Dorsal sepal free at the base from the lateral pair, lanceolate, apex 
awned; margins ciliate, depressed; lateral pair about five or six times as long as 
the dorsal, cohering except at the base. Petals rather fleshy, triangular, more densely 
ciliate than the dorsal and about half as long. р shorter than the dorsal sepal, 
oblong, obtuse, very’ fleshy; lower surface convex, the upper smooth, deflexed from 
below the middle, the basal half with upturned edges, the anterior half with tufts 
of purple glandular hairs. Column short, with slender decurved apical teeth, the foot 
short and abruptly contracted about the middle. Anther рарШове; pollinia obovoid, 
subequal. Walp. Ann. i, 776; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. v, 779; in Ann. Roy. Bot, 
Gard. Cale. v, 19, t. 28; King & Pantl. in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 
87, t. 119. ©. Wallichit Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 1980; Bot. Кес. 1839, Misc. 72; and 
1843 sub. t. 49 (not of Wall. РІ. As. Rar.) С. íripudians Par. &  Reichb. f. т 
Gard. Chron, 1876, 816. Bulbophyllum refractum Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi, 259. 
В. tripudians Par. & Reichb. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx, 154. 
.  Kumaon, in the Sarju valley at 3,700 feet, Strachey & Winterbottom No. 11; 
flowering after the rainy season is over. lt extends eastwards to Sikkim, and is found 
also in Burma and Java, 
The lateral sepals, which form the most conspicuous part of the flower, are pale green wnen 
young and become brownish with age. The dorsal sepal and the petals and lip are pale yellow, 
spotted with purple. / 
Ann. Кот. Bor. Garp., Carc, Vor. ІХ, 
