38 



CYRTOPODIUM. 



occasionally seen in orchid collections under the name of G. cardio- 

 chilmn, which cannot^ however^ be botanically separated nor, in our 

 opinion^ horticulturally distinguislied from the type. 



0. punctatum. 



Stems, leaves and inflorescence as in Cyrtopodium Andersonii, except 

 that the leaves are much more acuminate. Cauline bracts spathaceous, 

 broadly oval, 5 — 6 inches long, yellowish green stained and blotched 

 with reddish brown chiefly on the basal half; floral bracts much 

 smaller, oblongdanceolate, 1^ inch long, and l)rightly coloured like the 

 sepals. Flowers 2 inches in diameter ; sepals and petals oval-oblong. 



Cyrtopodium punctatum. 



undulate, the former bright tawny-yellow barred and spotted with 

 cinnamon-brown, the latter bright tawny-yelloAV Avith few, often without 

 spots; lip much shorter than the other segments, three-loljed, the side 

 lobes oblong-spathulate, curved inwards, brick -red ; the intermediate lobe 

 semi-limate with crisped margin, yellow bordered with red ; crest a 

 much tuberculated oblong plate, white dotted with red. Column semi- 

 terete, bent, yellow-green. 



Cyrtopodium punctatum, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 188 (1832). Id. Sert. Orch. 

 t. 12. Bot. Maq. t. 3507. Rchb. in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 666. Van Houtte's Fl. 

 des Serves, XXII. t. 2352. Godefroy's Orchidophile, 1885, p. 270. "Williams' Orch. 

 Alb. V. p. 202. Lindenia, Fill. t. 344. C. Saintlegerianum, Echb. in Gard. 

 Chron. XXIII. (1885), p. 756, and IV. s. 3 (1888), p. 180, with fig. Epidendrum 

 punctatum, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. II. p. 1349. 



