Tas. 7988. 
BULPOPHYLLUM AURICOMUM. 
Native of Burma. 
Nat. Ord. OrcnipEm.—Tribe DENDROBIEA, 
Genus Butsopnyiium, Thou.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 501.) 
BuLBoruyttumM (Eubulbophyllum) auricomum; rhizomate repente crassitie 
penne anserinze squamis brevibus arcte imbricatis brunneis vaginato, 
pseudobulbis #-1}-pollicaribus confertis anguste ovoideis oblongisve 
teretibus nudis fusco-viridibus aphyllis, foliis rhizoma terminantibus 
solitariis binisve 3-4 poll. longis sessilibus lineari-oblongis obtusis 
coriaceis basi vaginis brevibus viridibus cinctis supra lete viridibus 
subtus pallidis, scapis basi pseudobulborum insertis racemo incluso 4-10 
poll. longis gracillimis, vaginis paucis angustis appressis auctis, racemo 
elongato decurvo multifloro, rhachi puberulo, bracteis minutis subulatis, 
floribus subsessilibus cernuis, ovario brevi, sepalis patulis ? poll. longis 
lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis 38-nerviis membranaceis albis dorsali 
paullo breviore, petalis parvis oblongis obtusis 1-nerviis ciliatis, labello 
lingueformi recurvo supra papilloso apice rotundato aurantiaco, columna 
et truncata bidentata, anthera mitreformi apice obtusa puberula.— 
(oH. 
B. auricomum, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. n. 1985; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. p. 50. 
Parish in Mason’s Burma, ed. nov. 1883, vol. ii. Bot. p. 154. Hook. f. Fl. 
Brit. Ind. vol. v. p. 765. 
B, foenisecii, Par. ex Reichd. S. in Bot. Zeit. vol. xxiii. (1865) p. 99. 
Dendrobium tripetaloides, Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. iii. p. 478, et icon. ined, in — 
Bibl. Kew., n. 2359. : 
Bulbophyllum auricomum was discovered by the Rev. F. 
Carey in the forests of Rangoon, whence living plants 
were sent by him, before 1832, to the Botanical Gardens 
of Calcutta, where it was cultivated under the name of 
Dendrobium tripetaloides, which was published by Dr. Rox- 
burgh in his “Flora Indica.” It has more recently been 
collected in Tenasserim by William Gomez, one of Wallich’s 
collectors, and by the Kev. C. Parish in Moulmein. The 
plant figured was obtained by Kew from Mr. J. O’Brien, 
Harrow-on-the-Hill, in 1894, and Mr. Watson observes 
that it flowers annually in a stove in June. But this 
‘Season it is flowering freely at the end of December, and a 
very pretty and graceful little thing it is, and its agreeable 
fragrance adds to its attractiveness. ae 
Parish collected numerous specimens, which he presented 
to Kew in 1872, and in an accompanying note he states 
Feprvany Ist, 1904, : 
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