1942 



* BOLBOPHYLLUM barbigerum. 

 Bearded Bolbopliyllum. 



GYNANDRIA M0NA}^DRIA. 



Nat. Ord. Orchidace^. 



BOLBOPHYLLUM, Thouars. Sepala erecta, acuminata, subajqualia, 

 lateralibus cum pede columns connatis et basi obliquis. Petala nana (rarissim^ 

 sepalis subiEqualia). Labellum cum pede columnae articulatum, unguiculatura, 

 sajpiils integrum et posticum. Columna nana, antic6 bidentata et bicornis. 

 Anlhera l-'2-locularis. PoUinia 4, libera, vald^ injequalia, nunc in uno con- 



nata, nunc per paria cohaerentia, altero cujusvis paris minuto lobuliformi. 



ilerh'iS epip/njttp, Th'izomdte repente pseudobulbifero. Folia coriacea, aveiiia. 

 Racemi radicales. Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orcli. p. 47. 



B. barbigerum ; pseudobulbis lenticularibus, foliis solitarlis racemo erecto bre- 

 vioribus, bracteis ovatis amplexicaulibus ovario subcequalibus, sepalis lineari- 

 lanceolatis acuminatis, petalis subulatis columna brevioribus, labello lineari- 

 lanceolato acuminato villoso apice stuposo-barbato. 



A most curious plant introduced from Sierra Leone, by 

 Messrs. Loddiges, with whom it flowered in June 1836. It 

 grows pretty freely under the hot damp system of cultivating 

 epiphytes. 



That a drawing is altogether incapable of representing 

 so strange a conformation as exists in this species, will be 

 evident in the course of the following description. The 

 pseudo-bulbs are small, lenticular, very pale green bodies, 

 from one edge of wliich springs an oblong, firm, smooth, 

 veinless leaf. From the opposite edge of the pseudo-bulb 

 there rises a raceme of flowers, about six inches long, the 

 base of which is protected by brown, narrow, imbricated 

 scales. The number of flowers in each raceme is from 15 



* From /3oX/3oe a bulb, and ipvXkov a leaf, in allusion to the leaves univer- 

 sally arising from a bulb-like stem or pseudo-bulb. 



