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* BOLBOPHYLLUM saltatoiium. 



Uanciiig Boibopkylluin. 



GYNANDRIA MONAKDRIA. 



Nat. Old. Orchidace^, § Malaxide^. 

 BOLBOPHYLLUM. Supra, vol. 23. fol. 1942. 



B.sallatorium; pseudobulbis ovatis compressis ancipitibus, f'oliis solitariis acutis 

 racemis brevioribus, bracteis ovatis niembranaceis appressis emarcidis ovario 

 suba;qualibus, sepalis ovato-obloiigis pubescentibiis subaequalibus, sepalis 

 subulatis columna longioribus, labello ovato aeuminato sepabs longiore 

 villoso apice stuposo. 



This is the plant alluded to at folio 1942 as resembling 

 Bolbophyllum barbigerum. Like that species it was im- 

 ported from Sierra Leone by Messrs. Loddiges, in whose 

 collection the drawing was made in December last. 



Fig. 1. is a magnified view of the whole flower; 2. the 

 column aud petals ; 3. the base of the lip ; and 4. the pollen 

 masses. 



It is worthy of remark, that in all this genus Bolbophyl- 

 lum the spiral vessels are particularly tough and numerous. 

 I have noticed this circumstance in the calyx of the plant 

 now figured, and Mr. Griffith has observed it in the sheaths 

 of the leaves of Bolbophyllum auricomum in Burma. 



* See folio 1942. 



