758 CXLVIII. ORCHIDEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Bulbophyllum. 



** Sepals 3-nerved. Petals 3-nerved, or 1-nerved in B. radiatum. 



22. B. radiatum, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 1986 ; Gen. $ Sp. Orchid. 55 ; 

 scape slender shorter than the linear-obtuse leaf, flowers umbellate long- 

 pedicelled, sepals subequal narrowly caudate-lanceolate 3-nerved, petals 

 half as long narrowly lanceolate from an ovate 1-3-nerved base finely 

 acuminate, mentum 0, lip minute stipitate, columnar spurs slender. Walp. 

 Ann. vi. 264. 



TEXASSKRIM ; at Tavoy, Wallich ; Moulmein, Parish. DISTRIB. Hong Kong. 



Pseudobu(bs 1 in., very narrowly conical or subcylimlric, crowded on a stout 

 rhizome. Scope 2-3 in. j bracts setaceous, pedicel %-\ in., capillary ; flowers yellowish j 

 sepals in. 



23. B. stenobulbon, Par. fy ReiM.f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 153; 

 scape short slender, sheaths 3-5 small, flowers fascicled on the top of the 

 scape few very small subsessile, sepals subequal lanceolate finely acuminate 

 3-nerved three times as long as the oblong obtuse 3-nerved petals, lip 

 sessile, columnar spurs long. 



TENASSERIM, Heifer (Kew Distrib. 5166); at Moulmein, Parish. 

 Pseudobulbs ^-1 in., cyliudric; rhizome slender. Leaf 1-2 in., linear, notched. 

 Scape -i-l in. ; bracts small, lanceolate j flowers - in. long, yellow. 



24. B. cauliflorum, Hook. f. Ic. Plant, ined. ; scape capillary 

 distant from and much shorter than the long pseudobulb, flowers small 

 umbelled, sepals snbequal- lanceolate caudate-acuminate 3-nerved, petals 

 nearly as long lanceolate 3-nerved, lip very small stipitate, columnar spurs 

 slender. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, Griffith's Collectors (Keiv Distrib. 5165), J. D. H. KHASIA 

 HILLS, Griffith (Ktw Distrib. 5139). 



Rhizome stout, branched, divaricate; pseudobulbs 1-1-2 in., subcylindric, distant. 

 Leaf 2-5 by 1-1 -g- in., oblong, obtuse; petiole g-i in. Scape |-J in., bracts 

 ovate-lanceolate, shorter than the slender in. long pedicel; flowers in. long-, 

 yellow-green, inodorous. The slender tails of the sepals and 3-nerved petals dis- 

 tinguish this from E. odoratisslmum. 



25. B. protractum ? Hook. f. Ic. Plant, ined. ; scape capillary 

 much shorter than the leaf, flowers very small umbelled, bracts setaceous, 

 sepals subequal lanceolate acute 3-nerved, petals nearly as long 3-nerved, 

 lip very small subsessile, columnar spurs slender. 



TENASSERIM (on Andaman Islands), Heifer (Kew Distrib. 5164). 



Rhizome long, nearly straight ; pseudobulbs f-1 in., narrow, distant. Leaf 2-3 in., 

 shortly petioled, linear-lanceolate, acute, rather thin. Scape I in., sheath slender; 

 pedicel y 1 ^ in. 



*** Sepals 3-nerved. Petals \-nerved. 



26. B. odoratissimum, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 1987; Gen. Sf Sp. 

 Orchid. 55 ; scape stout loosely sheathed, flowers in a dense globose head, 

 "bracts longer than the ovary, sepals subequal lanceolate caudate 3-nerved, 

 tips solid obtuse, petals minute "1-nerved, lip minute sessile papillose. 

 8telis odoratissima, Smith in Eees Cyclop, xxxiv. S. caudata, Don 

 Prodr. 32. Tribrachia odoratissima, Lindl. Coll. Sot. 41. 



SUBTBOPICAL HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich', Sikkim, alt. 4-7000 ft., J. D. H. 

 KHAKI A HILLS, Lobb, &c. TEJNASSERIM, Heifer (Kew Distrib. 5167, 5168). 

 DJSTRIB. China. 



