_ fulfilled the expectations its size had led growers to form. 
This note refers to the disagreeable odour characteristic 
of this interesting plant, which is not closely allied to 
any other known Bulbophyllum, and is readily distin- 
guished from all the cultivated species by its obcordate- 
orbicular, compressed pseudobulbs, concave on one face, 
convex on the other, and closely flattened against the 
thick climbing rootstock. The Glasnevin plant of 
B. Hamelinii blossomed again in 1904. Another plant, 
obtained for Kew from Messrs. Sander, flowered for the 
first time in August, 1916, when our plate was prepared. 
In August, 1917, a third plant, part of the collection of 
the late Sir Trevor Lawrence, presented to Kew by 
Lady Lawrence in 1914, also flowered for the first time. 
Both Kew plants thrive well in a tropical house in 
baskets of peat and sphagnum suspended from the roof. 
They require abundant water whilst making their growth 
in autumn. Though &. Hamelinii has no near allies it 
resembles in its carrion-like odour the Bornean /. Beccarii, 
Reichb. f., figured at t. 6567 of this work. When the 
original consignment of B. [amelinii reached this country, 
no precise habitat was recorded, but a fruiting specimen 
collected by Mr. Warpur, which reached Kew in 1900, 
is noted as being from a forest at Tanabe. 
Description.—Herb, large, epiphytic; rootstock short, stout, woody ; 
pseudobulbs sessile, clustered, obcordate-orbicular, much compressed, 3-4 in. 
across, clothed at the base with ovate, acute, imbricate sheaths ; 2-foliate. 
Leaves elliptic or obovate-elliptic, blunt, 14-2} ft. long, 3-5 in. wide, very 
firmly leathery, rather narrowed towards the base. Scapes axillary, in flower 
curved, in fruit nearly erect, stout, 13-23 ft. long, clothed with numerous 
spathaceous imbricate sheaths; raceme somewhat drooping, 4-5 in. long, 
dense-flowered ; bracts wide ovate, rather blunt, concave, }—} in. long; pedicels 
stout, 2 in. long. Flowers medium-sized, numerous, suffused and blotched 
with purple and with a dark-purple lip. Sepals: posterior elliptic-ovate, 
3 in. long, with a recurved rather blunt tip; lateral ovate, acute, concave, } in. 
long, connate below. Petals deltoid-subulate, acute, in. long. Lip elliptic- 
oblong, rather blunt, recurved, fleshy, nearly 
+ in. long, papillose on the surface 
and margin; disk 2-keeled. Colwmn broad, s in. long; teeth triangular, some- 
what acute, very short. 
Tas. 8785.—Fig. 1, flower; 2, petal; 38, lip; 4, column; 5, anther-cap ; 
6, pollinia; 7, sketch of the entire plant :—all enlarged except 7, which is 
much reduced, 
