Tas. 4532. 
BOLBOPHYLLUM Lossu. 
Mr. Lobb’s Bolbophyllum. 
Nat. Ord. Oncuipra”.—GyNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4166.) 
Bo.poruyiLum Loddii; folio petiolato obovato-oblongo coriaceo, pedunculo 
nudo unifloro folio breviore basi subglanduloso e bracteis squamzformibus 
cucullatis falcatis subglandulosis erumpente, sepalis oblongis acutis lateralibus 
falcatis, petalis conformibus minoribus reflexis, labello longe unguiculato 
cordato ovato acuto canaliculato apice recurvo. Lindl. 
Bo.BoruyiLium Lobdii. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1847, under ¢. 29. 
One of the many fine things sent from Java to Messrs. Veitch 
of Exeter, by their collector, Mr. Thomas Lobb. “ How fine 
a plant of its kind this is,” says Dr. Lindley, in the Bot. Reg. 
l. c., “ may be surmised, by its having been taken for a Calogyne : 
the flowers are full four inches across, yellow, shaded with 
cinnamon, spotted with light brown, and speckled outside with 
brown-purple :—we know of no species of the genus comparable 
to it for beauty.” Our drawing was made from the plant of 
Messrs. Veitch, after it had gratified the public at the May 
Exhibition of the Chiswick Gardens for 1850. 
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs ovate, smooth, green, nearly as large 
as a pigeon’s egg, partially sheathed with a ragged membrane, 
and springing from a scaly creeping caudex, terminated by an 
oblong petiolated coriaceous solitary /eaf Scape arising one 
from the side of each pseudo-bulb, yellowish, spotted with 
brown, shorter than the leaf; its base sheathed with imbricated, 
convex, spotted scales. Mowers large, solitary, spreading. 
Sepals lanceolate, acuminated, deep yellow, the upper one 
externally marked with purple spots running in lines; the 
lateral ones falcate, streaked and clouded with purple. Petals 
resembling the upper sepal, but smaller and streaked with 
purple lines, reflexo-patent. Zip cordato-ovate, eR 
reflexed, yellow, with minute orange dots. Column short, broa 
upwards, deep ow, sprinkled with orange. Anther-case 
hemispherical. W.J.H. 
_ SEPTEMBER Ist, 1850. 
