754 CXLVIII. OBCIIIDEYE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Bulboplnjllum. 



truncate. Walp. Ann. vi. 245. Sarcopodium macranthum, Lindl. in 

 Paxt. Fl. Gard. i. 155; FoL Orchid. 3. 



TKNASSERIM; alt. 3636 ft., Parish. SINGAPORE (Uort. Loddiges}. 



Rhizome stout, crinite at the nodes. Leaf 4-8 in. Pedicel 45 in., with 

 appressed basal sheaths ; flower ringent, rather fleshy, red-purple and spotted ; 

 anther small. 



4. B. megralanthum, Griff. Notul. iii. 286 ; Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 292 ; 

 scape very short, pedicel stout shorter than the oblong-lanceolate leaf, 

 flower f in. diarn., petals lanceolate long-acuminate rather shorter than 

 lanceolate acuminate falcate sepals, lip long narrow slender, basal lobes 

 acute. Walp. Ann. vi. 246. 



MALACCA ; on Pulo Bessar, abundant, Griffith. 



Pseudobulbs very small. Leaves 4 in. ; petiole short. Pedicel 2-3 in. ; flowers 

 pale brown, purple-spotted ; sepals 3 in. long, lateral scythe-like, deflexed and 

 crossed over the very long lip. Fruit 2 in. long. Described from Griffith, who says 

 the lip is sessile, but his figure shows a stipes. * 



5. B. psittacoglossum, Beichb. f. mss. ; scape very short stout 

 1-3-fld., pedicel longer than the petiole of the broadly elliptic leaf, flower 

 1-1^ in. diam., petals ovate 5-nerved as long as the falcately ovate lateral 

 sepals, foot of column forked, lip with membranous toothed basal lobes. 

 Sarcopodium psittacoglossum, Beichb. f. in Sot. Mag. t. 5408. 



TENASSERIM, Parish. 



Pseudobulbs ovoid, enclosed in a reticulate sheath. Leaf 2.-^ in. long and broad. 

 Scape 1-1! i n -> sheath basal ; pedicel 1 in., stout ; sepals greenish yellow with red 

 nerves, dorsal incurved. Lip spongy, yellow and scarlet, obtuse, base deeply 2-lobed ; 

 tips of column acute. 



6. B. nasutum, Beichb. f. in Gard. Ckron. 1871, 1482 ; flower 

 subsessile, sepals subequal triangular-ovate, petals very small linear, lip 

 sessile as long as the sepals oblong, tip rather dilated rounded, base with a 

 hooked incurved auricle on each side, anther conical. 



TENASSERIM; at Moulmein, Parish. 



Pseudobulbs crowded, short, obturbinate. Leaf 2-3 in., sessile, lanceolate, very 

 thick. Pedicel with ovary ^ in. ; flower 1 in. diatn. ; sepals and petals 5-nerved, 

 pale yellow ; lip with a red-purple base, auricles as in B. Careijanum. The specimens 

 are very insufficient. 



7. B. pileatum, Lindl. in Sot. Beg. 1844, Misc. 73 ; scape 0, pedicel 

 slender, sepals ovate-oblong obtuse, petals nearly as long narrower ovate- 

 oblong obtuse 5-nerved, lip nearly as long as the sepals tongue-shaped obtuse 

 with 2 mesial ridges from the base to beyond the middle, column terete, 

 anther conical. Walp. Ann. vi. 246. Sarcopodium pileatum, Lindl. Fol. 

 Orchid. 4. 



SINGAPORE (Hort. Loddiges}. PENANG, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1676), and Ic. 

 in Herb. Keiv. PERAK, Wray. DISIRIB. Sumatra \lc. Marsden). 



Rhizome long, rooting, and crinite at the nodes. Leaf 3-5 in., elliptic or 

 obovoid-oblong, rather membranous. Pedicel 1-3 in., often distant from the 

 pseudobulb; flower 1% in. diam., yellow, ridges of lip red. The materials are very 

 indifferent. 



8. B. Reinwardtii, Beichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 246; pseudobulbs 

 long slender, leal' long-petioled, scape and pedicel slender, petals ovate- 

 lanceolate caudate-acuminate rather shorter than the uncinate lanceolate 

 lateral sepals, lip cordate-lanceolate. Sarcopodium Reinwardtii, Lhidl. 



