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Messrs. Low’s plant is supposed to have come home with Oncidium 
macranthum, but agrees so well with O. distans, including the details of the 
lip and column, that I think 1t must be referred to it. It bears a considerable 
resemblance to Oncidium macranthum in habit, but has an upright, loosely 
branched panicle measuring #-inch across, with narrow, light greenish- 
yellow sepals and petals, and a tinge of rose on and in front of the lip’s 
crest. The crest consists of a pair of erect, somewhat bilobed calli. Like 
many species of the Myanthum set, it cannot be called showy. R.A. R. 
CIRRHOPETALUM ORNATISSIMUM AND C. MANNII, 
Wuat is Cirrhopetalum Manni? Mr. F. W. Moore, Keeper of the Royal 
Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, has sent to Kew on two or three occasions 
flowers of two closely allied and handsome Cirrhopetalums, under the names 
of C. ornatissimum and C. Mannii, and remarked on their distinctness, 
though in the Botanical Magazine they had been considered identical, and 
the latter was regarded as not representing Reichenbach’s plant. 
The latter was described in 1872 under the name of Bulbophyllum 
(Cirrhopetalum) Mannii, Rchb. f. (Flora, 1872, p. 275), as a_ highly 
interesting species collected in Assam by Gustav Mann. No affinity was 
given. In 1890 a plant was figured in the Botanical Magazine (t. 7229) 
under the name of Cirrhopetalum ornatissimum, Rchb. f., which is said to 
have been “ received at Kew from the Royal Botanical Gardens of Calcutta 
in 1890 (under the erroneous name of Bulbophyllum Mannii).”’ This is the 
plant cultivated at Glasnevin as C. Mannii, and the question arises whether 
the name is not correct. Reichenbach describes the dorsal sepal as aristate, 
and the petals as aristate from the middle. The latter phrase is meaningless, 
but if he meant furnished with appendages in each case the description 
would agree very well. The type specimen is of course locked up for five 
years longer, so the point must remain doubtful. 
C. ornatissimum, Rchb. f., was described ten years later (Gard. Chron., 
1882, ii. p. 424) as having flowered in four different collections, though it 
was first sent by Mr. W. Bull in October, 1879. The author remarked : 
“Tt may come from East India, though I am not sure of it... On Sep- 
tember roth, 1882, it was drawn by Mr. Day (Orch. Draw., xxxi. t. 15), and 
it is recorded as “‘ Drawn at Mr. Wm. Bull’s Nursery, Chelsea. The plant 
was received from the Philippine Islands. It is a charming thing, well 
deserving of its name.” In 188g it was figured in the Orchid Album (viii. t. 
369), from the collection of F. G. Tautz, Esq., Studley House, Shepherds 
Bush. In the Flora of British India the locality is given as “ Sikkim 
Himalaya (Ic. in Herb. Calcutt.), Assam, Griffith,’ but the former belongs 
to C. appendiculatum, Rolfe, and the latter agrees best with the plant 
figured in the Botanical Magazine. On the other hand nothing like C. 
