760 CXLVIII. ORCHIDE®. (J. D. Hooker.) [Bulbophylium. 
drawing lent by Dr. Trimen, the flowers are pale pink with broad red stripes, in 
another yellow with slender red stripes. 
C. Flowers racemose or spicate (capitate in 57. repens, and 59. xylo- 
phyllum). (Sp. 32-72.) 
* Lip with recurved lateral basal auricles. Except sp. 32 and 40, all 
want revision. 
32. B. fusco-purpureum, Wight Te. t. 1651; scape stout, raceme 
few-fid., flowers large, sepals subequal ovate-oblong acuminate, petals very 
small tipped with a clavellate capillary awn, lip sessile broad papillose, 
columnar teeth short. Walp. Ann. vi. 256. 
Nirenmi Hirrs; at the Kaitia Falls, Jerdon, Wight. soled 
Rhizome stout; pseudobulbs }-1} in., ovoid. Leaf 2-4 in., shortly petioled, 
oblong, obtuse. Scape twice as long, suberect, raceme drooping ; sheaths aon) 
bracts short; sepals 1 in., 5-nerved, dark purple; petals subserrate ; auricles 0 
purple lip crenate. 
33. B. Kingii, Mook. f. Ie. Pl. ined.; scape short stout pendulous, 
raceme dense-fld., bracts large, dorsal sepal ovate, lateral ovate lances? i 
acute, petals nearly as long as the dorsal sepal ovate-oblong ciliate, auricles 
of the lip deeply toothed, column truncate. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 6000 ft., King (Ic. in Herb. Calcutt.). 
Rhizome stcut ; pseudobulbs 1} in. diam., globose and deeply groov 
Leaf 6 in., linear-oblong, acute; petiole 14 in. Scape with raceme 
ed, as if lobed. 
5 in., sheaths 
‘ : : in. 
short ventricos : “pri i . bracts j in.; flowers 1i 
e, and flowers green sprinkled with red; br 3 5 larged) native 
diam. ; lip dark green.— Described from an excellent (but probably enlarg 
drawing. 
t 
34. B. Careyanum, Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 732; scape very stou 
many-sheathed longer than the pseudobulb, bracts equalling or Paene 
the densely imbricating flowers, sepals oblong-ovate acute, dorsal st tale 
petals minute broadly ovate aristate l-nerved, auricles of shortly ET Cal 
lip subentire, columnar spurs long-aristate from a broad base. Wa t lam 
1990/1; Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 51; Walp. Ann. vi. 256. Anmisopop ir 
Careyanum, Hook. Fl. Exot. t. 149. Pleurothallis purpurea, Don free’ 
93. Tribrachia purpurea, Lindl. Coll. Bot. 41. 
TROPICAL HIMALAYA; from Nepal, Wallich, eastwards. Kasra Hits * 
jurma. 1-2 in., 
Rhizome very stout; pseudobulbs globose ovoid or oblong. Leaf 4-10 by rved ; 
subpetioled, oblong or linear-oblong. Scape 3-5 in.; raceme 2—4 In» reenish, 
bracts 4 in., oblong or lanceolate ; flowers 4—} in. long, orange-yellow un blue- 
more or less spotted or suffused with red-brown or purple, sometimes almos ore than 
purple,—I find it impossible from dried specimens to ascertain if there be tin uishe 
one species here, and if the two following are, if distinct, accurately disting 
by the characters given, 
VAR. ochracea ; flowers ochraceous unspotted, lip red-brown. 
Mag. t. 5316. — Arracan. 
nd 
B. cupreum, Bot. 
horter than ihe 
` ls and lip 
ls petas, “Carey” 
35. B. crassipes, Hook. f.; scape very stout s 
pseudobulbs concealed by ventricose sheaths, bracts sepa 
as in B. Careyanum, but column longer with short erect spurs. 
anum, Wall. Cat. 1990/2; Bot. Mag. t. 4166. 
Sikkiw Terar, Clarke,  MaRrABAN, Wallich. Arracan (Her b. 
PeNnano (Herb. Lindl.). 
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