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Cirrhopetalum (Species of this genus)

The species of this genus are mostly natives of the East Indies or the Malayan Archipelago; one is found in the Mascarene Islands, another in China, and a third in Australia. To those described on pp. 330-1, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

C. Lendyanum (Lendy's). fl. whitish, with a greenish-yellow hue; lateral sepals free, twice as long as the ligulate, acuminate upper one; petals ligulate, acuminate; lip compressed, bicarinate on the narrow upper side; raceme umbellate. l. cuneate-oblong, acute, minutely bilobed, purple beneath. Pseudo-bulbs pyriform-tetragonal, reddish. 1887.

C. picturatum (picture). fl. 2in. or more in length; upper sepal 1/3in. long, with a terminal, purple thread 1/3in. long; lateral sepals conniving into a pale, dirty green, convex blade; petals very small; umbel about ten-flowered; scape green, speckled with purple, 8in. to 10in. long; sheaths speckled red. l. solitary, 3in. to 6in. long, 1 1/2in. broad, linear-oblong. Pseudo-bulbs tufted. Moulmein, 1885. (B. M. 6802.) C. pulchrum (beautiful). fl., dorsal sepal purple, dotted with fuscous-purple, the lateral ones connate in a yellow, purple-blotched, linear-oblong, obtuse lamina, 1 1/4in. long; petals purple, falcate; lip purple,linear-oblong, recurved; pedicels 1/2in. long; umbel about seven-flowered; scape erect, 4in. to 5in. long. l. oblong, obtuse and emarginate at apex, narrowed at base, thick. Halmahera, 1886.

C. stragularium (curtained). fl., middle sepal spotted purple, purple at top, elliptic, cucullate, the lateral ones sulphur, blotched and spotted purple; petals yellowish, spotted purple, brownish purple at apex; lip numerously spotted with blackish-purple, curved, with two divaricate angles near the base, convolute. l. petiolate, cuneate-oblong, blunt, 6in. to 7in. long. 1887. This "may be the same as C. pulchrum" (H. G. Reichenbach)