I'ebruary, 1913- 1 
'I'HE ORCHID WORLi;. 
lOI 
The adjoining photograph 
shows one of the flower 
spikes of the vigorous phint 
depicted on the preceding 
page. Lissochikis Horsfahn 
bears the name of Mr. I-iors- 
faU, of BeUamour Hall, Staf- 
fordshire, with whom the 
species first flowered m 1864, 
and although plants may 
have been imported since 
this date, it does not appear 
to have flowered again in 
England until igo6, when 
the Right Hon. Lord Roths- 
child exhibited four flower- 
ing specimens at the Royal 
Horticultural Society, March 
()th, and received a Silver- 
gilt Flora Medal, with a 
l-'irst-class Certificate for the 
species. These plants were 
imported from West Africa 
by the Hon. Walter Roths- 
child, whose method of cul- 
ture consisted in treating 
them as nver-bank plants by 
growing the tubers in tubs 
of water, to which frequent 
applications of manure-water 
were given. The resulting 
flower-spikes were five feet 
in height and carried a large 
number of blossoms. In the 
early part of the year 191 o 
we hear of this species 
flowering at the Royal Gar- 
dens, Kew, when a flower- 
spike six feet m height was produced. 
BULBOPHYLLUM AND CiRRHOPETALUM. — 
The species of Bulbophyllum and Cirr- 
hopetalum are so allied by cross affinities, 
states Sir Joseph Hooker in his " Flora of 
British India," that the two genera might well 
be regarded as one. My keeping them apart 
is due to the consideration of convenience, 
and the fact that all my attempts to commingle 
VOL. III. 
Lissochilus Horsfallii, the flower spike- 
the species of both have resulted m a chaotic 
aggregate, with most unsatisfactory sectional 
characters ; in fact, a far less natural result 
than the keeping them apart. The species of 
Cirrhopetalum are far the most difficult of 
the two, as regards analysis from dried 
specimens, on account of the delicacy of the 
perianth, and the fact that the length, form, 
colour, and consistence of the lateral sepals 
alter greatly during development. C. viridi- 
florum and C. Blepharistes have the longer 
dorsal sepal of Bulbophyllum. 
