42 cxxxiii. ORCHiDE.*: (rolfe). [Megaclinium. 



16 lin. long, 5 lin. broad. Bracts reflexed, ovate-triangular acute, 

 1-1 J lin. long. Flowers '2 lin. apart. Pedicels 2 lin. long, velvety. 

 Dorsal sepal oblong, subobtuse, 2\ lin. long ; lateral ones subfalcate- 

 triangular, acute, 1 J lin. long ; apex reflexed. Petals falcate-linear, 

 acute, IJ lin. long. Lip oblong, acute, from a very broad base, J lin. 

 long. Column J lin. long, with very broad, obtuse, wing-like teeth. — 

 liuUxyphyllum melcmorrhachis^ Reichb. f . 1. c. in note. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, cultivated specimens ! 



Flowered at Kcw in 1860, and in the collection of W. Wilson Saunders in 1872. 



15. M. pusillum, Rolfe in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 362. Pseudobulbs 

 ovoid-oblong, 4-angled, 1-1| in. long, 2-leaved. Leaves linear-oblong, 

 obtuse, 8 in. long, | in. broad. Scapes about 4 in. long, with a few 

 membranous sheaths ; rhachis shoi-t, compressed, obscurely crenulate, 

 unequal-sided, IJ in. long, 4 lin. broad, light green, densely speckled 

 with purple-brown. Bra<;ts ovate, subacute, spreading, IJ lin. long. 

 Flowers a little darker than the rhachis. Dorsal sepal linear, subobtuse, 

 recurved, 3 J lin. long ; lateral ones broadly ovate, falcately incurved, 

 velvety on the face, IJ lin. long; apex attenuate. Petals very narrow, 

 recurved, 2 J lin. long. Lip broad at the base, narrow, obtuse and 

 recurved above, 1 lin. long. Column short, margined, without teeth. 



Zast Tropical AArica. Without locality, cultivated specimen ! 

 Flowered in the Royal Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, in 1895. 



16. M. tentaculigenim, Reichh. f. in Flora, 1878, 78 in note. 

 Pseudobulbs 4-angled. Leaves cuneate-ligulate, subacute. Scapes with 

 as many as five sheaths, the upper ones large and loose ; rhachis leaf -like, 

 variegated, smooth. Flowers arranged in eccentric lines, brown and 

 yellow. Bracts oblong-ligulate, acute or acuminate, at length deflexed. 

 Dorsal sepal ligulate, acute; lateral ones oblong, acuminate. Petals 

 filiform, as long as the sepals, with spathulate apex. Lip ancipitous, 

 sigmoid, with a pair of erect, triangular auricles at the base. Column 

 elongate, acute at both sides of the apex ; base winged. — Durand & 

 Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 16. Bulhophyllum tentaculigerum, Reichb. 

 f. in Flora, 1878, 77. 



Upper Gninea. Cameroous : at Mopanza, on lava at 5000-6(X)0 ft., Kalhreyer. 

 Only known to me from the original description, but said to be allied to M. Melleri, 

 Hook. f. 



17. M. Melleriy Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. sub t 5936. Rhizome 

 creeping, stout and woody. Pseudobulbs |-1 J in. apart, oblong, strongly 

 5-angled, \-\\ in. long, 2-leaved. Leaves oblong or elliptical-oblong, 

 obtuse, 1-2J in. long, 5-9 Un. broad. Scapes suberect, 3 in. long, with 

 several loose, tubular-spathaceous, obtuse sheaths ; rhachis linear-oblong, 

 rather fleshy, j-1 in. long, 2-3 broad. Bracts broadly ovate, subobtuse, 

 spreading, lJ-2 lin. long, 2^-3 lin. apart. Sepals triangular. Petals 

 linear, incurved, obtuse. Lip ancipitous ; base with rounded auricles. 

 Column trigonous, with tridentate apex and a keel extending to the 

 base. — Bulbophyllum Melleri, Reichb. f. in Flora, 1878, 78. 



