Tas. 5329, 
BOLBOPHYLLUM PAVIMENTATUM. 
Clustered Bolbophyllum. 
Nat. Ord. OncurpE#.—GyNaNvRIA MOoNANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 5288.) 
BorBoPuyLiuM pavimentatum ; pseudobulbis densissimis subrotundo-oblongis 
compressis monophyllis, foliis oblongis planis pedicellatis, scapo foliis lon- 
giore filiformi erecto arcte 4-vaginato, spica densa, floribus carnosis glabris 
bracteis obtusis longioribus, sepalis ovatis acuminatis obtusis, petalis ovatis 
retusis, labello brevi carnoso tomentoso obtuse acuminate revoluto, columna 
biseta. Lindl. 
BoLBoruyi.uM pavimentatum. Lindl. on W. Afr. Trop. Orchids, in Journ. of 
Proceed. of Linn. Soc. v. 6. p. 128. 
Of the genus Boléophyllum alone, Tropical Western Africa 
has furnished Dr. Lindley with no less than fourteen species, all 
of which, with the exception of one, are entirely new species, 
and these are all from the collections of the indefatigable Gustav 
Mann. The species now before us was discovered on the banks 
of the Nun, in September, 1860, and it flowered with us in 
February, 1862. The specific name is given from the soil on 
which the plants grew, being as it were, paved with the densely 
compacted pseudobulbs, a resemblance the more striking in the 
dried and compressed specimens, where these pseudobulbs 
would be reduced to a nearly umform level. The species 1s com- 
pared by Dr. Lindley to the B. cupreum and B. recurvum. 
_ Drscr. Pseudobulbs subrotund or oval, subcompressed, densely 
clustered, scarcely exceeding an inch in length, terminated by a 
solitary, oblong, coriaceous, rather acute leaf, contracted and con- | 
duplicate at the base, so as to be subpetiolate, three to four 
inches long. Scapes slender, about as long as the leaf with four 
to six sheathing Jracts, bearing a drooping spite, two inches long, 
of rather densely imbricated, deep-purple flowers, each sub- 
tended by a short green, ovate, concave Jract. Ovary sessile, 
AUGUST Ist, 1862. 
