700 UXLVIII. ORCHIDE^. (J. D. Hooker.) \Bulbopl; i/llum. 



dm wing lent by Dr. Trimen, the flowers are pale pink with broad red stripes, in 

 another yellow with slender red stripes. 



0. Flowers racemose or spicate (capitate in 57. repens^ and 59. n'ylo- 

 pliyUum). (Sp. 32-72.) 



* Lip with recurved lateral basal auricles. Except sp. 32 and 40, all 

 want revision. 



32. B. fusco-purpureum, Wight Tc. t. 1651 ; scape stout, raceme 

 few-fld., flowers large, sepals subequal ovate-oblong acuminate, petals very 

 small tipped with a clavellate capillary awn, lip sessile broad papillose, 

 columnar teeth short. Walp. Ann. vi. 256. 



NILGHIEI HILLS ; at the Kaitia Falls, Jerdon, Wight. 



Rhizome stout; pseudobulbs i-l.j in., ovoid. Leaf 2-4 in., shortly petioled, 

 oblong, obtuse. Scape twice as long, suberect, raceme drooping; sheaths loose; 

 bracts short ; sepals 1 in., 5-uerved, dark purple ; petals subserrate ; auricles of 

 purple lip crenate. 



33. B. HLingrii, Hook. f. Ic. PI. ined. scape short stout pendulous, 

 raceme dense-fid., bracts large, dorsal sepal ovate, lateral ovate-lanceolate 

 acute, petals nearly as long as the dorsal sepal ovate-oblong ciliate, auricles 

 of the lip deeply toothed, column truncate. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 6000 ft,, King (Ic. in Herb. Calculi.). 



Rhizome stout; pseudobulbs 1| in. diam., globose and deeply grooved, as if lobed. 

 Leaf 6 in., linear-oblong, acute ; petiole 1^ in. Scape with raceme 5 in., sheaths 

 short veutricoee, and flowers green sprinkled with red ; bracts ^ in. ; flowers 1 in. 

 diam. ; lip dark green. Described from an excellent (but probably enlarged) native 

 drawing. 



34. B. Careyanum, Spreng. Syst. Vey. iii. 732 ; ecape very stout 

 many-sheathed longer than the pseudobulb, bracts equalling or exceeding 

 the densely imbricating flowers, sepals oblong-ovate acute, dorsal shorter, 

 petals minute broadly ovate aristate 1-nerved, auricles of shortly stipitate 

 lip subentire, columnar spurs long-aristate from a broad base. Wall. Cat. 

 1990/1 ; Lindl. Gen. # Sp. Orchid. 51 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 256. Anisopetalum 

 (Jareyanum, HooJc. Fl. Exot. t. 149. Pleurothallis purpurea, Don Prodr. 

 33. Tribrachia purpurea, Lindl. Coll. Sot. 41. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Nepal, WaHich, eastwards. KIIASIA HILLS and 

 Burma. 



Rhizome very stout ; pseudobulbs globose ovoid or oblong. Leaf-W by 1-2 in., 

 Bubpetioled, oblong or linear-oblong. Scape 3-5 in. ; raceme 2-4 in., decurved ; 

 bracts -J- in., oblong or lanceolate ; flowers -3 in. long, orange-yellow or greenish, 

 more or less spotted or suffused with red-brown or purple, sometimes almost ail blue- 

 purple. I find it impossible from dried specimens to ascertain if there be more th;m 

 one species here, and if the two following are, if distinct, accurately distinguished 

 by the characters given. 



VAB. ochracea ; flowers ochraceous unspotted, lip red-brown. B. cupreum, Bot. 

 Mag. t. 5316. Arracan. 



35. B. crassipes, Hook, f.; scape very stout shorter than the 

 pseudobulbs concealed by ventricose sheaths, bracts sepals petals and lip 

 as in B. Caret/amtm, but column longer with short erect spurs. B. Carey- 

 anum, Wall. Cat. 1990/2; Bot. May. t. 4166. 



SIKKIM TERAT, Clarke. MARTABAN, Wallicli. Arracan (Herb. Calculi.). 

 I 'K.NAM; (Jf^-b. Lindl.) . 



