: Tas. 7787. 
BULBOPHYLLUM eranprrtorvm. 
Native of New Guinea. 
Nat. Ord. OrncntpE“,—Tribe ErPrIpENDRE. 
Genus Butsoruyiium, Thou. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 501.) 
ButsornyituM (Eubulbophyllum) grandiflorum; caudice valido repente, 
pseudobulbis distantibus prismaticis monophyllis, folio 5-10 poll. longo 
1-2 poll. lato elliptico v. lineari-oblongo apice emarginato basi in 
petiolum brevem angustato crasse coriaceo supra saturate viridi Iucido 
costa subtus obtuse carinata, scapo folio breviore robusto unifloro vaginis 
paucis laxis instructo, bractea pollicari spathacea, flore ad 8 poll. 
longo, pedicello robusto cum ovario bractea_ subduplo _longiore, 
sepalis maximis multinerviis internervos plagis pallide brunneis albisque 
tessellatis, dorsali late ovato-oblongo obtuso arcuatim incurvo lateribus 
recurvis, lateralibus lineari-oblongis obtusis deflexis ultra medium incurvis, 
petalis minimis triangularibus, labello minuto trilobo, lobis lateralibus 
orbiculatis, terminali lingueformi crasso profunde sulcato sanguineo 
punctato marginibus basin versus longe ciliatis, columna crassa antice 
truncata apice contracta, anthera hemispherica, polliniis 4, 2 dimidiato- 
oblongis, 2 minutis facie interiore majorum adnatis. 
B. grandiflorum, Blume, Rumphia, vol. iv. p. 42 (non Rehb. f.); Rolfe in 
+ Rev. vol. iii. p. 104; in Gard. a 1895, vol. i. p. 422, fig. 
B. burfordiense, Hort. ex Orchid Rev. vol. iii. p. 135. 
Ephippium grandiflorum, Blume, |.c. t. 195, fig. 3 and t. 199, fig. B. 
The gigantic Bulbophyllum here figured was discovered 
in New Guinea by Zippel, a naturalist who, in 1828, 
accompanied an expedition consisting of two ships (the 
Triton and Iris), which was commissioned by the Dutch 
Government, under the command of Dr. Marklot, to 
establish a civil and military settlement in that Archi- 
elago. It is remarkable for the colouring of the sepals, 
the contrast between the size of these and the minuteness 
of the petals which are only a small fraction of an inch 
long and broad. The pollinia are peculiar, though perhaps 
not normally developed in the cultivated plant; they are 
four in number, two large, oblong and strongly com- 
pressed, and two very minute attached to the inner faces 
of the larger. Its only near ally is B. Cominsti, Rolfe, a 
native of the Solomon Islands, the flower of which is much 
smaller. 
Aveust Ist, 1901. 
