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* BOLBOPHYLLUM cocoínum. 
The Cocoa-nut Bolbophyllum. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEE, $ MALAXIDEE. 
BOLBOPHYLLUM. Suprà, vol. 23. fol. 1942. 
B. cocoinum ; pseudobulbis ovatis tetragonis, foliis solitariis lanceolatis spicà 
strietä multiflorä brevioribus, bracteis membranaceis linearibus acutis ovario 
longioribus, sepalis aristatis, petalis linearibus denticulatis columná bicorni 
longioribus, labello ovato-lanceolato obtuso basi ciliato sub apice foveato. 
B. cocoinum. Bateman in litt. 
A pretty little species of this extensive genus, imported 
by Messrs. Loddiges from Sierra Leone. 
It is related to Bolb. recurvum, tetragonum, and the 
others in their neighbourhood, but is readily known by the 
pale flesh-coloured flowers, the serrated petals, and the con- 
cave short lip, delicately ciliated towards its base. 
It flowered at Hackney, in January 1835, filling the 
house with the scent of a cocoa-nut, and I received it about 
the same time from Mr. Bateman. 
In the dissections fig. 1. is a front view of a column with 
its two horns arising from either margin, and the serrated 
petals ; fig. 2. is the upper side of the lip; fig. 3. represents 
the pollen-masses. 
* See folio 1942. 
