Tas. 80838. 
BULBOPHYLLUM Enrtossontr. 
Jeet ‘ 
Malay Archipelago. 
Orcuipaces. ‘l'ribe EPIpENDRE. 
Bu.Borpnyiium, Thouars; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 501. 
Bulbophyllum Ericssoni, Ardnzl. in Gard. Chron. 1893, vol. ii. p. 522; 
1897, vol. i. p. 61, fig. 16; a B. Pahudi, Reichb. f., sepalis multo latioribus 
insigniter maculatis differt. 
Herba epiphytica, rhizomate repente valido. Pseudobulbi distantes, lineari- 
oblongi, monophylli, basi vaginis membranaceis obtecti, circa 3} poll. 
longi. Folia petiolata, elliptico-oblonga, obtusa, subeoriacea, circa 5-6 
poll. longa, 2-23 poll. lata. Scapi suberecti, apice decurvati, circa 6-7 
poll. longi, vaginis spathaceis obtecti. ores speciosi, umbellati, virides, 
purpureo-maculati. Bracteze ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, 4-3} poll. 
longs. Pedicelli 6-8 lin. longi. Sepalwm posticum late lanceolatum, 
caudato-acuminatum, 23-3 poll. longum, 5-7 lin. latum, apice sepe 
spiraliter recurvum; sepala lateralia triangularia, apice caudata et 
spiraliter recurva, 23-3 poll. longa, basi 5-7 lin. lata. Petala basi 
triangularia, dein longe caudato-attenuata, apice spissime torta, 1} 
poll. longa, basi circa 4 lin. lata. Labellum cordato-triangulare, acutum, 
recurvum, lateraliter subcompressum, cirea 7-8 lin. longum, auriculis 
rotundatis. Columna latissima, circa 3 lin. longa; basi in pedem attenua- 
tum, circa 9 lin. longum extensum ; dentes oblongi, obtusi. 
Bulbophyllum Ericssoni, Kriinal., is a member of a very 
small but striking group which, so far as our knowledge 
extends, is limited to the Malay Archipelago and Penin- 
sula. It was discovered by Mr. Ericsson, a traveller for 
Messrs. Sander & Sons, and was described from dried 
specimens in 1893. The flowers were not inaptly com- 
pared with those of a large Chimeroid Masdevallia, tor the 
general shape, combined with the green ground colour and 
purple spotting, is more comparable with that group than 
with anything in its own genus. The habitat, as 1s too 
often the case, was not recorded, and although when it 
flowered some four years later, in the collection of the 
Hon. Walter Rothschild, M.P., and was figured in the 
Gardener’s Chronicle, with the remark that, ‘it is probably 
a native of New Guinea,” we cannot learn that the remark 
was more than an inference. he plant here figured 
flowered in the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., 
Burford, Dorking, in October, 1899. Mr. White, Sir 
Trevor’s Orchid grower, observed that, ‘the flowers 
Avaeust Ist, 1906. 
