THE ORCHID Keyiew: 
VoL. XXXI.] MAY, 1923. [No. 359 
NOTES. 
New Orcnips.—Decade LXXIV. of Orchidaceze nove et critica (Fede, 
Repert. sp. nov. XVIII.) is devoted to descriptions of ten new Orchids from 
Madagascar, by Dr. R. Schlechter. They include Cynosorchis, 1; 
Bulbophyllum, 5; Jumellea, 1; and Angraecum, 3. Of the last-mentioned 
genus, A. Viguieri, is compared with the West African A. infundibulare. 
Tue Genus CIRRHOPETALUM.—A recent issue of the Botanical Magazine, 
now edited by Dr. O. Stapf, contains a coloured plate of Cirrhopetalum 
tripudians (t. 8954). It is stated that “ the genus Cirrhopetalum is 
apparently a well-defined group of considerable age and essentially Indo- 
Malayan, with outposts in Madagascar and tropical Australia. The genus 
was originally proposed for a Madagascar species, the Bulbophyllum longi- 
florum of Du Petit Thouars, which was then only known from a black and 
white drawing. Lindley, its author, does not state the derivation of the 
generic name, which, if correctly spelt, would mean ‘ yellow petal,’ but it 
is more probable that the author meant to refer to the long strap-shaped’ 
lateral sepals, which are the most salient feature of the genus, and in some 
of the species would justify an illusion to the locks or curls of a human 
head, in which case the proper spelling would be Cirropetalum, from cirrus 
—a head.” = 
Oncip1um JoNESIANUM.—What a pity it is that we do not see this 
Years ago it was imported in quantity, but 
It was introduced by 
elegant species in cultivation. 
no one has been able to master its cultivation. 
Messrs. Horsman, of Colchester, in 1883, through M. de St. Legere, a 
Brazilian plant collector of French origin, who discovered it in 1878 in 
It was found growing in the midst of elevated forests 
in the less sheltered localities, and where the thermometer in winter was 
said to often fall below zero. This last bit of information suggests that the 
plants have been probably killed by kindness through keeping them in too 
warm an atmosphere. The plant is without pseudobulbs, and has thick 
fleshy leaves cylindric in form. The flowers are 2 to 3 inches in diameter, 
Northern Paraguay. 
