 BOLBOPHYLLUM hirtum. 
(Lindley Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 51.) 
This curious plant has flowered with Messrs. Loddiges. 
It produces a long drooping tail of small whitish flowers, 
having exactly the smell of Sweet Vernal Grass (Anthoxan- 
thum odoratum). The sepals are not only clothed thickly 
with hairs, but they also have numerous purple oblong glands, 
especially on the edges. The petals are ovate, and as if ser- 
rate with long stiff hairs. Messrs. Loddiges received it from 
the East Indies, where it grows on trees. 
The specific character given in the work above quoted, 
having been formed from dried and not perfect specimens, the 
following should be substituted. 
D. hirtum, (Lindl. gen. & sp. orch. no. 18. p. 51. Stelis 
hirta, Smith in Rees. Tribrachia hirta, Lindl. Coll. 
Bot. 41.) ; pseudobulbis elongato-ovatis, foliis lato-ligu- 
latis obtusis scapo glabro brevioribus, spicá caudiformi 
multiflora cernuá pubescente, sepalis acuminatis hirsutis 
et glandulosis, petalis nanis acutissimis fimbriatis, labello 
oblongo-lineari emarginato obtuso supra hirsuto, antherä 
glandulosa, 
