Tas. 5961. 
BOLBOPHYLLUM temniscatum. 
Native of Moulmein. 
Nat. Ord. Orcurpace#.—Tribe, DENDROBIEZ. 
Genus, Botsopnytium Thouars ; (Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orchid., p. 47). 
Botsopuytium lemniscatum ; pseudobulbis depresso-globosis grosse tuber- 
culatis, foliis 2-3 e basi pseudobulbi enatis elliptico-lanceolatis, scapo 
apice cernuo gracillimo supra medium vagina longissima subinflata 
aucto, spica brevi pendula, floribus parvulis imbricatis, sepalis sub- 
equalibus supra medium connatis ovato-rotundatis obtusis dorso infra 
apicem appendice pendula gracillima clavata e lamellis 10 longitudina- 
libus crenatis constante auctis, petalis minutis lineari-oblongis obtusis 
columne utrinque rostrate appressis, labello brevi incluso lingueeformi 
crasso obtuso convexo levi. 
Bo.zoruyiium lemniscatum, Parish mss. 
A more singular little gem of an Orchid than this cannot 
well be imagined. Its curious glossy tubercled pseudobulbs, 
its capillary scape with the long inflated upper sheath, its 
pendulous spike of glistening minute flowers, and above all, 
its slender appendages that hang one from the back of each 
Sepal, and which are as curious in structure as beautiful in 
colouring, together seem to mark it as the type of a new 
genus. This I should have named JLemniscoa Parishii, 
had not its discoverer seen reason to refer it to the hetero- 
geneous genus Bolbophyllum, to which it 1s certainly very 
closely allied, but which appears to me to want a redistribu- 
tion of its species. The elaborate structure of the appendages 
of the sepals deserves special notice. Each consists of a 
narrow club-shaped very flaccid body, three to four times as 
long as the flower, and is gradually narrowed into a fili- 
form pedicel. On a superficial examination it appears to be 
10-sided, but on a transverse section is proved to consist of a 
APRIL Ist, 1872. 
