ORCHIDACE.E 



combines as some Bulbophyllums do, the common habit of a 

 Bulbophyllum with a curious thick light red rhachis," etc. "Exin- 

 sulis Philippinis dicitur." Reichb. f. /. c. Rolfe wrote of this spe- 

 cies: "B. saurocephalum Reichb. f. is a Philippine species which 

 appeared in 1886." I have not seen any material among the col- 

 lections made for the Bureau of Science. 



73. Bulbophyllum (\Monanthaparva) sensile sp. nov. Radices 

 fibratre, elongatae. Rhizoma repens. Pseudobulbi conferti conico- 

 cylindracei, subtiliter rugosi, erecti, unifoliati, 5-10 mm. longi, 

 in sicco circiter 4 mm. in diametro. Folium erectum oblongi- 

 lanceolatum, aliquando ellipticum, obtusum, leviter et inaequal- 

 iter bilobum, ad basim fastigatum, vix petiolatum, 12-21 mm. 

 longum, circiter 4 mm. latum, scapo multo brevius. Scapus elon- 

 gatus, pergracilis, subcapillaceus, inter basim et bracteam floris 

 nudus, 4-7 cm. longus, flexuosus, uniflorus. Bractea infra florem 

 oblique infundibuliformis, circiter 1 mm. longa. Pedicellus gra- 

 cilis, cum ovario 5-12 mm. longus, glaber. Sepalalateraliaoblonga, 

 acuta, trinervia, mentum obtusum 2 mm. longum formantia, 

 usque ad 7 mm. longa, ad basim circiter 2.5 mm. lata. Sepalum 

 dorsale lanceolatum, trinervium, acutum, 8 mm. longum, circiter 

 2.5 mm. latum, ad basim concaviusculum. Petala sepalis multo 

 breviora, circiter 3 mm. longa, ± 1 mm. lata, uninervia, spathu- 

 lata, ad apicem rotundata. Labellum trilobatum, 4 mm. longum; 

 lobi laterales auriculati, rotundati, basi labelli usque ad apicem 

 utriusque lobi 2 mm. ; lobus medius lanceolatus, obtusus, cras- 

 sus, quinquenervius, 2.5 mm. longus, prope basim 1.5 mm. latus. 

 Columna brevis ad apicem longe bicuspidata. 



This species resembles in general aspect Bulbophyllum chrys- 

 eum Kranzl., from which it differs in the crowded pseudobulbs, 

 smaller, much narrower leaves, and in the conspicuously three- 



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