MAkcH, 1910. ] THE. ORCHID REVIEW. 
CIRRHOPETALUM CAMPANULATUM. 
Tuts charming little species has again flowered at Kew, and the annexed 
figure is reproduced from a photograph taken by Mr. Raffill, which shows 
the plant reduced about one-half. It was described about a year ago as 
Bulbophyllum (Cirrhopetalum) campanulatum, Rolfe (Kew Bull., 1909, p. 
62), and afterwards figured (Bot. Mag., t. 8281), the reduction of the genus 
Cirrhopetalum being insisted on by several recent writers. But it is very 
well pointed out in the Botanical Magazine that the recognition of the section 
Cirrhopetalum as a floristic group apart from Bulbephyllum has certain 
practical advantages that appeal to cultivators. It is also by no means 
improbable that the great and unwieldy genus Bulbophyllum, as understood 
Fig. 6. CIRRHOPETALUM CAMPANULATUM. 
ees, 
by some botanists, will have to be subdivided. The plant isa 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. It is allied to C. 
auratum, Lindl., a plant figured in the Botanical Register (1843, t. 61), 
which was introduced by Messrs. Loddiges, it is now believed from the 
Malay Peninsula. The habit of C. campanulatum is well shown in the 
figure, and it may be added that the scapes measure three inches long. 
The flowers are, as usual, borne in an umbel, but the ten or eleven pairs of 
united lateral sepals are so strongly deflexed as to give a campanulate 
appearance to the inflorescence, in reference to which the specific name is 
