148 THE ORCHID REVIEW. _ [Juty-Avcust, 1918. 
interests of horticulture they can hardly be ignored. An interleaved copy 
of Pritzel at Kew has been kept posted up, so far as important figures are 
concerned, and contains thousands of entries, but varietal names, we 
believe, have not been included, while hybrids named only in the vernacular 
have been omitted, so that large additions may have to be made. The 
Orchid Stud-Book, we may point out, contains the figures of hybrid Orchids 
to the end of 1907. 
A concise Index to the multitude of figures that are scattered through 
botanical and horticultural works would be a boon, but would be a 
rather extensive affair, unless some method of selection can be adopted by 
which duplicate presentments of the same plate or figure, when unduly 
numerous, can be omitted. It would give some trouble in compiling them, 
but the line may have to be drawn somewhere, in order to keep the work 
within reasonable limits. 
CIRRHOPETALUM SARCOPHYLLUM, King & Pantl.—A very distinct 
species of Cirrhopetalum is flowering at Kew that we do not remember to 
have seen recorded as in cultivation. It was described in 1895 from 
specimens collected at Rishap, Sikkim, at an elevation of about 2,500 feet 
(Journ. Asiat. Soc., xiv. p. 335), and afterwards figured (King & Pantl. 
Orch. Sikkim, p. 91, t. 126), when the altitude was given as from 3,000 to 
5,000 feet, the plant flowering from June to September according to 
elevation. Four years ago a Cirrhopetalum that had been obtained from 
Messrs. Sander & Sons flowered-at Kew, which was obviously very similar, 
but as it was said to have been obtained from the Salween River district, 
between Burma and Siam, it was not certainly identified. And now another 
plant has flowered at Kew, this having been sent by a Mr. Light, who 1s 
believed to have collected it somewhere in the Moulmein district. On 
further comparison of the cultivated plants it is evident that both must be 
referred to C. sarcophyllum. It is a plant of very distinct habit, with 
slender creeping rhizomes, and pendulous, very fleshy leaves, oblong bs 
elliptical in shape, and three to six inches long. The flowers are borne 1 
umbels of four to six, and are mottled with reddish brown on a greenish 
ground, the dorsal sepal being distinctly striped, and the fleshy lip dotted 
with purple on a lighter ground. King and Pantling remark that it 8 ® 
species with a ccnsiderable vertical distribution, and that at low elevations 
it appears as a dwarf, to which dwarf form they have given the name © 
variety minor. This is said to be found close to the plains, at elevations of 
1,000 feet, and that it is not connected with the type by transition forms: 
Specimens of both forms are preserved at Kew. Pendulous leaves at not 
common in the genus.—R.A.R. 
