Tas. 5316. 
BOLBOPHYLLUM cuprevum. 
Copper-coloured Bolbophyllum. 
Nat. Ord. OrncuIpEx.—GYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA.: 
Gen. Char.. (Vide supra, Tan. 5288.) 
BoLBOPHYLLUM cupreum; folio angusto solitario scapo longiore, racemo brevi 
oblongo nutante, petalis setaceo-acuminatis serrulatis, labello ovato dente 
utrinque setaceo, columnz angulis aristatis. Lindi. 
Bo.BoruyL_um cupreum. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. v. 24. 1838, Mise. p: 95. 
Figured from a flowering-plant in the Royal Gardens of Kew, 
in 1861. Dr. Lindley drew up his specific character from a 
plant imported by Messrs. Loddiges, through Mr. Cuming, from 
Manilla, whereas our specimen is stated to come from Arracan. 
The flowers, he observes, are copper-coloured, thence the name 
(cupreum), and have a smell extremely like Valerian-root. Many 
of the small-flowered Orchidee are remarkable for the singu- 
larity of their structure, as seen under a microscope; and such 
is the case with the present species. 
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs ovato-subrotund, compressed, green, 
fleshy, glabrous, and perfectly smooth on the surface. Several 
of these are attached to a creeping, rooting, scaly caudex, about 
the thickness of the quill of a writing-pen; often subtended by 
large, lanceolated, membranaceous, closely-pressed scales. Each 
pseudo-bulb bears on its summit a solitary, oblong, coriaceous 
leaf, about a span long. At the very base of a pseudo-bulb 
arises the curved scape, three to four inches long, clothed for its 
whole length with large, lax, sheathing, membranaceous scales. 
Spike about as long as the scape, cylindrical, drooping, of an 
orange-copper colour, consisting of closely-placed, imbricated 
flowers, each flower subtended by a lanceolato-acuminated drac- 
tea, of the same colour as the flowers. Pedicels very short. 
_ JUNE Ist, 1862. 
