Tas. 8216. 
BULBOPHYLLUM Gatpinum. 
Malay Peninsula. 
ORCHIDACEAE. Tribe EPIDENDREAE. 
Bunpopuytium, Thouars; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 501 
Pfitzer in Engl. et Prantl, Pflanzenfam. vol. ii. 6, p. 286. 
Bulbophyllum galbinum, Ridl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxxii. p. 267; 
Materials Fi. Mal. Penins. part 1, p. 64; Gard. Chron. 1907, vol. xlii. p. 42, 
fig. 14; habitu B. Reinwardtii, Reich. f., pedunculis bifloris differt. 
Herba epiphytica. Rhizoma longe repens, validum. Pseudobulbi 9-11 cm. 
distantes, anguste oblongi, subcompressi, 5-8 cm. longi, vaginis membra- 
naceis acutis tecti, monophylli. Folia petiolata, oblonga vel elliptica, 
acuta, coriacea, 12-20 em. longa, 4-7 em. lata ; petioli 2-3 cm. longi, 
canaliculati. Scapi 12-92 cm. longi, graciles, 2-flori. Flores magni, 
speciosi, explanati, olivaceo-flavi, sepalis purpureo-punctatis, petalis pur- 
pureo-striatis, labello purpureo. Bracteae ovatae, acutae, circa 2 cm. 
longae, Pedicelli circa 2°5 em. longi. Sepalum posticum late lanceolatum, 
acuminatum, 4-5 em. longum; lateralia basi late triangulari-ovata, dein 
longe caudato-acuminata, 4-4°5 em. longa, basi 1°5 cm. lata. Petala basi 
ovata, longe acuminata, apice setacea, 2°5 cm. longa. Labellum longe 
unguiculatum, cordatum, acuminatum, carnosum, apice recurvum, basi 
subconcavum, 1:5 em. latum. Columna lata, 8 mm. longa, dentibus brevibus 
angulatis subobtusis. 
Bulbophyllum galbinum is a native of the Malay Peninsula, 
and was described about twelve years ago by Mr. Ridley, 
Director of the Singapore Botanic Garden, from materials 
collected on Maxwell's Hill, Perak, where it is said to be 
abundant, climbing on trees in dense jungle. It was com- 
pared with B. Reimwardtii, Reichb. f., to which it bears a 
general resemblance in habit, ast it is readily dis- 
tinguished by its two-flowered peduncle. It had previously 
flowered at the Royal Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, and was 
at first referred to B. Reinwardtii. Mr. J.J. Smith refers 
(Orch, Java, p. 448) both B. feinwardtii, Reichb. f., and 
B. galbinum, Ridl., to B. uniflorum, Hassk., though the one 
now figured does not at all answer to the name, and several 
species of the section Sestochilos are persistently 1-flowered. 
Whether B. Reinwardtii be in cultivation is doubtfui, 
though Reinwardt’s original drawing and a dried specimen 
collected by Thomas Lobb, in Java, which Lindley con- 
SerrTemseEr, 1908, 
