liyVnm.] cxLVin. ORCHiDE/E. (J. D. Hooker.) 753 



A polymorphous genus, of which FIT. A resembles Sarcopodium of Dendrol turn, 

 hut (litters in its mobile lip, and scape lateral on the pseudobulbs. See under 

 Oirrhopetalum for further remarks. 



Sect. I. Ei'iruiAX TIIKS. Rhizome creeping, pseudobulbous. Flowers 

 solitary, axillary, very shortly pedicelled. Petals represented by 6-7 

 elongate narrowly strap-shaped stipitate pendulous mobile threads. 

 Epicrianthes, Illume. 



1. B. Epierianthesj Hook. f.\ Epicrianthes javanica, Blume Bijd. 

 806 (Epicranthes); fl. Jav. Prttf. vi. ; Lindl. Gen. Sf Sp. Orchid. 61 ; 

 Miguel Fl. Ind. Sat. iii. 654. 



TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Parish. DISTRIB. Java. 



Rhizome ascending, as thick as a crow-quill ; pseudobulbs hi., narrow. Leaf 

 1 in., sessile, elliptic-oblong, acute, coriaceous. Kcape in., 1-ttd.; bracts lanceo- 

 late ; flowers green and red ; sepals about % in., subequal, ovate-lanceolate, spreading ; 

 threads of petals nearly as long; lip sessile, ovate-lanceolate, acute, warted, base 

 2-lobed ; column truncate. Described from a drawing and notes of Parish. I 

 assume he is right in referring his plant to Blume's E. javanica ; he describes the 

 threads of the petals as 6, in threes, membranous, Blume as 7, fleshy. There being a 

 Sulb.javaaicvm, I have adopted the generic name for the specific. 



Sect. IT. OXYSEPALA. Stems many from a rooting base, densely tnfted, 

 very slender, pendulous, much branched, clothed with scarious silvery 

 sheaths ; pseudobnlbs few, minute, ovoid. Flowers very small, solitary or 

 2-nate on a very short scape which is concealed by the sheaths ; bracts 

 eymbiform. Sepals very slender, connivent. 



2. B. clandestinum, Lindl. in Hot. Reg. 1841, Misc. 77 ; Wai p. 

 Ann. vi. 248. B. trisetosum, Grijf. Notul. iii. 2^3; Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 293. 

 Oxysepala ovalifolia, Wight Ic. t. 1736; Wai p. 1. c. Epidendrum sessile, 

 Kwnig in Retz. Obs. vi. 60 (ex Herb. Rottltr}. 



TENASSERIM ; at Mergui, Griffith. PEEAK, Scortechini. MALACCA, Griffith 

 (Kew Distrib. 5295). DISTRIB. Borneo. 



Stems 6-12 in., as thick as a crow-quill; internodes in., sheaths appres=ed, 

 ribbed. Leaf -1 in., oblong or linear, refuse. Scape capillary; bracts many, 

 hyaline; flowers ^ in. long, erect, cellular, yellow-white. Sepals subequal, lanceolate, 

 caudate acuminate ; petals half as long, ovate-oblong, acute, 1-nerved ; lip shortly 

 stipitate, lanceolate, obtuse ; column short, 2-toothed. 



Sect. Til. Iv , MUM. Rhizome creeping, bearing distant or 



approximate pseu<u.!>uilo (sometimes very snvill or 0, see p. 765). Inflo- 

 rescence various. Lijj usually strongly recurved and much shorter than the 

 sepals. The divisions of this section are iu great measure artificial. (See 

 remarks under Cirrhopetalum.} 



A. Flowers solitary, rarely 2-3, usually large. Scape sometimes very 

 short, with the pedicel of the flower long and scape-like. Petals and lip 

 usually much larger than in other groups. (Species 3-18.) 



* Column truncate, teeth at the apex in front 0, cr minute. 



f Lip sessile, i. e. foot of column not produced beyond the insertion of 

 the lateral sepals. 



3. B. macranthum, Lindl . in Rot. Raj. 1811, t. 13; scape 0, pedicel 



longer than the petiole of the elliptic oblong leaf, flower 2 in. diam., pel.-ils 

 lanceolate !-nerved as long as the sepals, lip small ovate acuminate, base 



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