770 CXLVIII. ORCHIDE®. (J.D. Hooker.) (Bulbophyllum. 
76. B. virens, Hook. f.; scape longer than the leaves, bracts ovate 
acuminate longer than the ovary, flowers large racemose, lateral sepals 
connate, petals quite entire, lip oblong serrulate narrowed into a long 
stout terete striate point. Ione virens, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 1; Walp. 
Rep. vi. 636. Dipodium, Grif. Notul. 405; Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 328, f. 1. 
UPPER AssAM ; Mishmee Hills, Griffith. 
Closely allied to B. paleaceum. ‘ Bracts whitish with purple veins ; lateral sepals 
white, margins greenish, veins purple; petals purple and blood-red.” Griffith. 
77. B. elegans, Gard. mss. in Thwaites Enum. 298; scape very 
slender longer than the leaf 1-fld., flower large, dorsal sepal ovate actio 
half the length of the free or coherent oblong lanceolate acuminate lateral, 
petals ovate-lanceolate, lip with an orbicular membranous waved base 
traversed by a broad hard axis that terminates in a dagger-shaped apex, 
columnar spurs long slender. 
CEYLON; in the Hantani, &c., districts, alt. 3—5000 ft., Gardner, Thwaites. 
Pseudobulbs 1—À in., ovoid, close-set on a slender rhizome. Leaf 3-4 in., linear- 
lanceolate. Scape l-2 in.; sheath O; bract small, acute; pedicel with ovary 
slender, 3-1 in. ; flower 1-1} in. long, purplish green spotted, lateral sepals forming 
a boat-shaped body ; lip yellow purple spotted. 
** Flowers 3-3 in. long. Lateral sepals 3-nerved. 
78. B. bicolor, Hook. f.; scape slender shorter than the leaf, bracts 
lanceolate longer than the ovary, flowers small, sepals subequal linear- 
lanceolate acuminate, lateral connate at the bases, petals ovate or oblong 
obscurely serrate, lip panduriform traversed by a rigid axis that terminates 
in a short or long rigid emarginate point, sides membranous, lacerate. 
Ione bicolor, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 3; Walp. Ann. vi. 637. Sunipia bicolor 
Lindl, Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 179 ; Sert. Orchid. Frontisp. f. 5. I. khasiana, 
Lindl, Fol. Orchid.2; Reichb. f. l. e. 686. Dipodium khasianum, Grif. 
Notul. 354; Ie. Pl. Asiat. t. 327; £. 2. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 5-6000 ft., and Bhota 
AAA (Kew Distrib. 5137), Wc! Kuasta Mrs., alt. 5000 ft, Grigith (K. D. 
3), &c. ] 
Pseudobulbs $-1 in., obpyriform, distant on a slender rhizome. Leaf 3-5 e 
subpetioled, linear, obtuse. Scape with spike 11-2 in.; bracts 1-5 in. ; flower E 
membranous, {-} in. long; sepals whitish with pink veins; lip purple.—Very Pl. 
B. reptans, under which name it is alluded to by Bentham under Zone (Gen. 
iii. 503). 
79. B. candidum, Hook. f. Ic. Plant. ined.; habit inflorescence and 
flower of B. bicolor, but rather ‘smaller, sepals white, lip yellow dager 
shaped with membranous serrulate sides in the basal half. lone canc» 
Lindl, Fol. Orchid. 3; Reichb. f. in Walp. Rep. vi. 637. 
Knasta Hints, alt. 4-5000 ft., J. D. H. & T. T. NAGA HILLS, Prain. 
SPECIES EXCLUDED AND UNKNOWN TO ME. 
B. aDENOPETALUM, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842, Misc. 85, which was sup 
be a native of Singapore, is a Philippine Island species. ete but 
B. ALOPECURUM, Reichb. f, in Gard. Chron. 1880, ii. 70; like B. trist n, 
larger, pseudobulb spherical, flowers shorter, sepals connate conchoid equal, P 
and conchoid connate equal sepals nerveless.— Burma (Hort. Low). dobulbs 
, B. cmassrroLIUM, Thw. mss. in Trimen Journ, Bot. 1885, 244; pseute 
pisiform smooth, leaf 21—2 in. sessile fleshy oval obtuse, flowers solitary vd "broadly 
shortly peduncled in the sheath of a short truncate bract, sepals subequa 
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