Bidl)0plnjllum.~] cxLvni. ORCHIDE/E. (J. D. Hooker.) 757 



PEBAK ; on Gunong Batu Pateh, Wray. 



Pseudobulb 1 in., narrow, with rigid basal fibres. Leaf 6-8 in., with many 

 slender nerves and cross nervules. Scape with pedicel about 2 in. ; bract in., 

 lanceolate ; flower nearly 1 in. long, " pale greenish yellow with dotted crimson lines, 

 lip claret-cold.," Wray. 



18. B. moniliforme, Par. Sf Reichb. f. in Trans- Linn. Soc. xxx. 

 151 ; pseudobulbs pisiform with the filiform rhizomes forming moniliform 

 creeping tufts, scape capillary 1-flJ., petals oblong 1-nerved, tip rounded 

 much snorter than the lanceolate acute strongly 5-nerved lateral sepals, lip 



stipitate. 



TENASSERIM ; Moulmein, Parish ; on trunks of Betel-nut Palm*. 



Leaf unknown. Scape |-1 in.; bracts sheathing, obtuse ; pedicel % in. Flower 

 in. diam. ; dorsal sepal a third shorter than the lateral, 5-nerved ; lip obtuse, 

 auricles rounded. Columnar spurs long, slender. A remarkable little species, like a 

 small Eria. 



B. Flowers capitate or subumbellate. (See also 57. repens, and 59. 

 xylopJiyllum.} In this division the scape is often distant from the pseudo- 

 bulb. (Sp. 19-31.) 



* Sepals 5- or 7 '-nerved. Petals I- or 3-nerved. 



19. B. Medusae, PeicJib.f. in Wai p. Ann. vi. 262 ; scape stout loosely 

 sheathed, flowers in a large dense globose head, bracts large lanceolate, 

 sepals lanceolate with long capillary tip?, dorsal 5-nerved more than half as 

 long as the 7-nerved lateral, petals ovate-lanceolate 1-nerved, tips capillary, 

 lip nearly straight. Cirrhopetalum Medusae, Lindl. in Sot. Reg. 1842, 

 t. 12 ; 1843, under t. 49; But. Mag. t. 4977; Hort. Farad, ii. t. 5. Belg. 

 Hortic. viii. t. 12. 



SINGAPORE {Hort. L'^ddiges}. PERAK, Scortechini, Wray. 



Rhizome stout; pseudobulbs 1-1| in., obpyriform, often curved. Leaf 5-6 in., 

 linear-oblong, 2-fid, very coriaceous ; petiole stout. Scape 6-3 in., curved ; sheaths 

 1 in.; head 1-| in. diam.; bracts -| in.; flowers 3 in. long, yellow spotted red ; 

 columnar teeth very long. 



20. B. albidum, Hook. f. scape stout 2-3-sheathed, umbel 6-8-fld., 

 sepals lanceolate acuminate 5-nerved, dorsal one-third shorter than the 

 lateral, petals elliptic- oblong 3-nerved, tip rounded, lip stipitate, posterior 

 angles acute recurved, column shortly toothed. Cirrhopetalum albidum, 

 Wight Ic. t. 1653. 



NILGHIRI HILLS, Wight. 



Rhizome very stout, copiously rooting ; pseudobulbs short, broadly ovoid, golden 

 when dry. Leaf 1-2 in., elliptic-oblong. Scape 2-3 in.; flowers pedicelled, f in. 

 long, white freckled with pale brown. 



21. B. confertum, Hook. f. Ic. Plant, ined. ; scape slender much 

 shorter than the linear-lanceolate long-petioled leaf, flowers small sub- 

 racemose, sepals 5-nerved finely acuminate, dorsal ovate-lanceolate about a 

 third shorter than the lanceolate falcate 5-nerved gibbous-based lateral, 

 mentum large rounded, petals half as long as the lateral sepals ovate- 

 oblong acute 3-nerved serrulate, lip minute stipitate, column dorsally 

 3-toothed, spurs very slender. 



KHASIA HILLS, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 5170). 



Pseudobulbs -|-1 in., densely crowded, narrowly ovoid. Leaf 2^-3 in., narrowed 

 into a slender 1 in. petiole. Scape U2 in., naked ; bracts lanceolate, shorter tlum 

 the slender in. pedicels ; sepals } in., dorsal suberose. 



