Bulbophyllum.l OvchtaeCB. 1 5 5 



waxy, collateral, cohering in pairs by a viscus, ovoid or oblong, 

 2 inner smaller. — Sp. about 130; 86 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Lateral sepals flat or nearly so ; fl. small. 



Flowers solitary I. B. CRASSIFOLIUM. 



Flowers fascicled on the top of the scape 



Flowers spicate 



Lateral sepals concave ; fl. large . 



2. B. PETIOLARE. 



3. B. PURPUREUM. 



4. B. ELEGANS. 



1. B. crassifollum, Th'w.exTrim.i?iJoi{rn.Bot.xyim.2^^{i2>2>z,). 

 C. P. 3879. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 770. 



Dwarf; pseudobulbs pisiform, ^-f in. diam., smooth, 

 crowded on a stiff slender rootstock bearing numerous 

 branched flexuous filiform roots, i-leaved, i-fld. ; 1. -l-f in., 

 sessile, oval or suborbicular, thickly coriaceous, channelled 

 down the centre, margins thickened when dry ; fl. solitary, 

 very small, about \ in. broad ; pedicel with ov. \ in., sheathed 

 at the base by a short truncate bract; sep. subequal, broadly 

 ovate, dorsal arched, erect, lateral spreading; pet. minute, 

 broad, truncate; lip minute, tongue-shaped, obtuse. 



Moist low country; very rare. Kukul Korale (Thwaites). Fl. Sept.; 

 minute yellowish-green, punctate with red, lip white. 

 Endemic. 



2. B. petiolare, Thw. Enmn. 298 (1861). 

 C. P. 3184. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 759. 



Pseudobulbs very small, pisiform, to~'4 '^^- diam., crowded 

 on a slender rootstock with long filiform roots; 1. petioled, 

 1-2 in., from linear-oblong 2 in. long to much shorter, obovate 

 or oblanceolate or shortly oblong, thickly coriaceous, tip sub- 

 acute, notched or rounded, margins thickened when dry; 

 petiole ^-i\ in., slender; ped. 2-3 in., very slender, erect, 

 4-5-fld., with one small subulate bract about the middle; fl. 

 about ^ in. long, fascicled at the top of the ped., pedicel and 

 ov. very short; bracts minute; sep. lanceolate, acute, dorsal 

 longest, lateral connivent, free; mentum rounded; pet. \ the 

 length of the sep., ovate, obtuse ; lip broadly tongue-shaped, 

 obscurely 3-lobed, obtuse, convex, recurved, deeply channelled 

 down the middle; anth. with 2 tubercles, pollinia subglobose, 

 one of each pair very small ; fr. |^ in. long. 



Moist low country; very rare. Ambagamuwa; Singhe Raja Forest. 

 Fl. Aug., Nov., Dec; orange or pinkish, strongly veined with red, lip red. 

 Endemic. 



3. B. purpureum, Thzu. Einnn. 298 (1861). 

 C. P. 3697. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 768. 



