Lp 
1942 
* BOLBOPHYLLUM barbigerum. 
Bearded Bolbophyllum. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. Ord. ORCHIDACRE. 
BOLBOPHYLLUM, Thouars. Sepala erecta, acuminata, subequalia, 
lateralibus cum pede columnz connatis et basi obliquis. Petala nana (rarissimè 
sepalis subequalia). Labellum cum pede column articulatum, unguiculatum, 
sæpiùs integrum et posticum. Columna nana, anticè bidentata et bicornis. 
Anthera 1-2-locularis. Pollinia 4, libera, valdé inzqualia, nunc in uno con- 
nata, nunc per paria coherentia, altero cujusvis paris minuto lobuliformi. 
Herbe epiphyte, rhizomate repente pseudobulbifero. Folia coriacea, avenia. 
Racemi radicales. Lindl. Gen. € Sp. Orch. p. 47. 
B. barbigerum ; pseudobulbis lenticularibus, foliis solitariis racemo erecto bre- 
vioribus, bracteis ovatis amplexicaulibus ovario subeequalibus, sepalis lineari- 
lanceolatis acuminatis, petalis subulatis columná brevioribus, labello lineari- 
lanceolato acuminato villoso apice stuposo-barbato. 
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A most curious-plant ‘introduced from Sierra Leone, by 
Messrs. Loddiges, with whom it flowered in June 1836. lt 
grows pretty freely under the hot damp system of cultivating 
epiphytes. 
That a drawing is altogether incapable of representing 
so strange a conformation as exists im this species, will be 
evident in the course of the following deseription. The 
pseudo-bulbs are small, lenticular, very pale green bodies, 
from one edge of which springs an oblong, firm, smooth, 
veinless leaf. From the opposite edge of the pseudo-bulb 
there rises a raceme of flowers, about six inches long, the 
base of which is protected by brown, narrow, imbricated 
scales. The number of flowers in each raceme is from 15 
* From ßoAßog a bulb, and ġvAXov a leaf, in allusion to the leaves univer- 
sally arising from a bulb-like stem or pseudo-bulb. 
