252 ORCHIDES. 



BOLBOPHYLLUM. 



ciliato unguiculato apice oblongo obtuso basi ima utrinque auriculato, 

 columnae digitis dentiformibus. 



Dolbophyllum tripetaltim Lindley, in Ann. Nat. Hist.. vol, X. p. 185. 

 VVild in Brazil ; in ihe province of St. Paiil's — Descourtilz, (v. ic. pict, in bibl, De 

 Lessert.), — A good figure of this exists among M. Descourtilz's drawings, in ihe 

 library of Monsieur De Lesserl. Like Bolbophyllum saltatoriunj , its lip appears io be 

 delicately and elastically ariiculated with column, The sepals are pale yellow. ihree- 

 quarters of an inch long. The iip is bright yellow with crimson spots, It is staled 

 by iis discoverer to be scentless and to cover whoie trunks of trees. 



p. Columna utriuque unidentata seu submulica. 

 1. 1. Labellum oblongum. 

 t Labellum plumosum seu papillis filiforraibus hirsutum. 



30. BOLBOPtiYLLUM CALAMARIUM Lindl — Bot, Reg. XXIX. 1843. Misc. 109, 

 Pseudobulbis tetragonis, folio oblorgo plano coriaceo obtuso basi 



canaliculalo, scapo stricto longissimo apice florido, bracteis membrpna- 

 ceis emarcidis ovarii longitudine, sepalis anguste triangularibus margine 

 pubescentibus , petalis cornuformibus subteretibus glabris, labello ses- 

 sili mobili lineari basi sulcato margine omni tomentoso supra medium 

 villis longissimis crinito, columnae cornubus falcatis. 



Allied to Bulb. saltatorium , like ihat species having a moveable lip fringed with long 

 purple hairs , which raises and falis spontaneously as the stem sways about the 

 wind. Its scape is fuU 2' long , stiff and erecl. Flowers are dirty yellow ochreco- 

 lour with a little purple upon ihem ; iip dull purple, — Sierra Leone Col. Fielding. 



31. BOLBOPHYLLUM TREMULtJM R, Wight. Ic. V, L 1851, 1749: pseudobulbs ovate, 

 somewhat corrugated , leef ovate, ianceolate acute ; scape straight , bracts smali, 

 ovate , acute: sepals oviUe lanceolate , acute , pubescent : petals rhombeo - ovate smali, 

 densely ciliate : lip articulated wilh the prolonged base of the column , linear , obluse 

 the back loward the apex, covered with iong tremulous hairs. Flowers yellow. passing 

 into purple towards ihe margins of the sepals : lip purple. Wyiiand on irees. Jerdon 

 and Major Cotton. — Aliied to Bolbophyilum Calamaria, — Fig. by Mrs, Jerdon, 

 Hairs of lig jointed at the base. 



32. BOLBOPHYLLUM SALTATO.RIUM Lindl, - Bot. Reg, XXHI. 1837. 970, 



Pseudobulbis ovatis compressis ancipitibus, foliis solitariis acutis, 

 racemis brevibus, bracteis ovatis membranaceis appressis emarcidis 

 ovario subaequalibus, sepalis ovato-oblongis pubescentibus subaequali- 

 bus, tepalis subulalis columna longioribus, labello ovato acuminato se- 

 palis longiore villoso apice stuposo. 



Perigonium viridi brunneum, labelium postice viride antice brunneo rubrum. 



33. BOLBOPHYLLUM BARBIGERUM Lindl. — Bot. Reg. XXIIL 1837, 1942, 

 Pseudobulbis lenticularibus, foliis solitariis racemo erecto brevioribus, 



bracteis ovatis amplexicaulibus ovario subaequalibus, sepalis lineari- 

 lanceolatis acuminatis, pctalis subulatis columna brevioribus, labello 

 lineari lanceolato acuminato villoso apice stuposo-barbato. 



Sierra Leonc. Loddiges. — Perigonium virenskcrmesiiuimque. Labullum llavum , barba 



kermcsina, 



tt Labelluni eplumosum, 



34. BOLBOPHYLLUM EUBLEPHAHUM Kchb, QL MSS. : 



Pseudobulbo-subtereli (v) elongato raonophylio, folio oblongo-Ianceo- 

 lato acuto, pcdunculo gracili apice nulante (?invivo?) foiium ter supe- 



