Tas. 5605. 
BOLBOPHYLLUM RETICULATUM. 
Reticulated-leaved Bolbophyllum. 
Nat. Ord. OrncuipEx.—GyNanpRiaA Monanpria. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tax. 5309.) 
BoLBoPnyiiuM reticulatum ; rhizomate elongato, pseudobulbis pedunculis 
squamis amplis imbricatis truncatis, pseudobulbis ovoideis 1-phyllis, 
folio amplo ovato-cordato acuminato pallide viridi, nervis saturate viri- 
dibus nervulisque pulcherrime reticulato, pedunculis brevibus sub- 
2-floris, floribus magnis, sepalo dorsali-petalisque subsimilibus ovato- 
lanceolatis acuminatis intus purpureo striatis, sepalis lateralibus majo- 
ribus concoloribus subfalcatis, labello trulliformi recurvo. 
Bo.BoPHyLivoM reticulatum. Bateman, mss. 
A most singular and beautiful plant, certainly the finest of 
the genus, whether we consider the size of the flower, its 
handsome striped sepals and petals, or the extraordinary 
beauty of the large reticulated leaves. It was discovered by 
Thomas Lobb in Borneo, and flowered with the employers of 
that successful collector, Messrs. Veitch, at the Royal Exotic 
Nurseries, King’s Road, in August of the present year. 
There is nothing at all resembling it in either the Lindleyan 
or Hookerian Herbaria at Kew, and may no doubt be taken 
as an earnest of the Orchideous riches remaining to be disco- 
vered in the Bornean forests. 
Descr. Lhizome elongate, prostrate, simple or sparingly 
branched, covered with closely imbricating, broadly ovate, 
acute brown scarious sheathing scales. Pseudobulbs solitary, 
scattered, ovoid, about an inch long, bearing one leaf covered 
by two or three sheathing scales, like those of the rhizome, 
but larger. Leaf large, three to five inches long, ovate-cor- 
date, acuminate, much nerved, the longitudinal and transverse 
nerves deep green, producing a beautiful reticulation on the 
paler green of the substance of the leaf; petiole short, stout. 
OCTOBER Ist, 1866. 
