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BOLBOPHYLLUM macranthum. 
Large-flowered Bolbophyllum. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACE®. $ MALAXEZ. 
BOLBOPHYLLUM. Supra, vol. 23. t. 1942. 
B. macranthum ; foliis petiolatis oblongis planis coriaceis, floribus solitariis, 
pedunculo petiolo longiore, flore plano resupinato, sepalo dorsali plano 
ovato acuminato lateralibus petalisque subconformibus hinc tortis, labello 
minimo unguiculato subtrilobo acuminato. 
This singular plant was imported by Messrs. Loddiges 
from Sincapore, and is closely allied to both B. leopardinum 
and affine. From each it differs in its much more fleshy and 
larger flowers, whose stalk is considerably longer than the 
petiole. 
The flowers appear in March, and expand so flat that they 
seem as if they had been pressed between paper. In the 
centre they are a pale lemon colour, but towards the tips they 
are much mottled with dark chocolate-coloured spots. 
Like the rest of the genus it succeeds best when tied to a 
block of wood, and suspended to a rafter in a moist stove. 
If the wood is charred enough to burn off the bark the block 
will be found to answer the purpose much better, and all insects 
that harbour about it will be destroyed. In summer the plant 
should receive water twice a day at least, and the temperature 
should be kept about 80° by day, and 68° at night. In winter 
for a few weeks very little water will be required, only as much 
as to keep the pseudo-bulbs from shriveling. The temperature 
then should never be raised above 50° or 55° with fire heat. 
March, 1844. G 
