SEPTEMBER, 1923.] THE ORCHID REVIEW: 265 
_ CIRRHOPETALUM CAMPANULATUM. 
F the many interesting species of. the genus Cirrhopetalum, few excel 
C. campanulatum as regards neatness of habit and prettiness of the 
inflorescence. The reproduced photograph shows the plant from which the 
original description was drawn up (Kew Bull. tg09, p. 62). This species is 
a native of the East Coast of Sumatra, and was sent from the Brussels 
Botanic Garden in 1908, and flowered at Kew in October of that year. As 
is customary in this genus, the flowers are borne in an umbel, but the ten or 
eleven pairs of united lateral sepals are so strongly deflexed as to give a 
<ampanulate appearance to the infloresence, and it is from this character 
CIRRHOPETALUM CAMPANULATUM. 
that the specific name was formed. The individual flowers are rose-pink in 
colour, with a few minute darker dots and paler margins. The dorsal sepal 
and petals are yellowish, with dusky brown lines, and all strongly fringed 
with dark purple hairs. The delicately-balanced labellum is reddish-purple. 
As soon as the flowers commence to open, a slightly gummy liquid is formed 
and trickles down the sepals, ultimately falling off in drops. Some of these 
-drops can be seen on the lower inflorescense in the photograph, and it is 
probable’ that they have some connection with the fertilisation. of the 
flowers. Cirrhopetalums are neat little plants, and most of them can be 
‘successfully cultivated in shallow pans or baskets suspended from the roof 
of the hot-house or warmest end of the Cattleya house. A moist atmosphere 
is at all times essential. 
