OECHIDACE.^ (A. B. Eeudle) 101 



crowded on the rhizome. Boots dense slender, branching. Leaves 

 4*5-9 cm. long, l"4-2'2 cm. broad. Scape to 16 cm. long, less than 

 1 mm. thick, bearing at the five nodes below the inflorescence narrow 

 sheathing bracts 1- • 5 cm. long. Raceme 5 cm. long. Floioers (in 

 one specimen) seventeen. Bracts 2-2 "5 mm. long. Sejjals 3' 5 mm, 

 long, the dorsal 1"5, the lateral 2 mm. broad, the broad united base 

 of the latter forming a blunt chin ; the margin minutely papillose. 

 Petals 2 mm. long by '6 mm. broad ; lip 1"75 mm. long, barely 1 mm. 

 broad. Column "5 mm. long, the slender arms "75 mm. long. Stalk 

 with ovary barely 2 mm. long. Fruit 8 mm. long. 



Evidently' near the Congo species B. nanicm De Wild, (from the 

 description) which it apparently resembles closely in habit, but differs 

 in absolute and relative sizes of the sepals and petals and in the form 

 of the lip. 



Bulbophyllum obanense Rendle sp. nov. Planta minor 

 pseudobulbis (in vivo) anguste ellipticis sulcatis diphyllis, in 

 rhizomate valido rubescente distantibus, cataphyllis scariosis 

 supra medium circumtectis ; foliis lineari-oblongis basi in petiolum 

 angustatis obtusis ; scapo folia paullo excedente, bracteis brevibus 

 specimine 5 rubescentibus e basi vaginante ovatis ; spicae 

 rhachide compressa floribus ochroleucis in marginibus tenuibus 

 distiche ordinatis ; bracteis concavis dorse carinatis mucronulatis 

 floribus brevioribus ; sepalis triangulari-ovatis acuminatis, dorsali 

 paullo breviore ; petalis linearibus ; labello crasso glabro trilobo, 

 lobis basalibus rotunde oblongis, lobe medio late oblongo recurve 

 margine crispule, carina obtusa mediana usque ad basin lebi medii 

 instructe ; columna brevi crassa dentibus 2 obtusis instructa. 

 (PI. 12, figs. 9, 10.) 



Oban, top of Niaji Peak ; n. 932 ; in flower Oct, 28. 



Des3ribed from a single specimen l"7cm. high and a coloured 

 sketch. Distance between pseudobulbs 6-7 cm., rhizome bearing 

 reddish sheathing scales at the node, woody, 3 mm. thick ; a tuft of 

 slender filiform roots from the base of each pseudobulb. Pscudohulb 

 3-4*5 cm. long, 1*2 cm. thick (when fresh). Leaves 6-11 cm. long, 

 1'2 to nearly 2 cm. broad. Scape 10-13 cm. long to base of spike. 

 Bracts 6-7 mm. long. Spike 6 cm. long, rhachis 2-3 mm. broad. 

 Flowering bracts 4 mm. long. Dorsal sepal barely exceeding 5 mm. 

 long; lateral 5*75 mm. Petals 3*5 mm.; lip 2*25 mm., greatest 

 breadth equal to length ; median lobe 1 mm. broad, with a raised line 

 just within the margin. Column 1*3 mm. long. 



Evidently very closely allied to the Congo species, B. platiracJiis, 

 described and figured by De Wildeman (Miss. Em. Laurent, 223, t. Iv.), 

 which it resembles in habit, but is a larger plant and differs in the 

 absolute and relative length of the parts of the flower. B. obanense 

 is characterised by its 3-lobed lip, but the details of the lip of 

 B. platirachis are not described. 



Bulbophyllum Amauryae Rendle sp. nov. Planta parva 

 epiphytica pseuclohulbis ovoideis dense aggregatis monophyllis ; 

 folio lineari utrinque attenuate obtusiuscule vel breviter acute ; 

 scajyo filiforme folia duple excedente parte inferiore bracteis 



