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36. B. sicyobulbon, Par. 8f Rciclib. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 

 152; habit and scape of IB. Careyanum, but pseudobulbs very large, flowers 

 orange-yellow, bracts narrower, petals subserrulate, column and its spurs 

 as in B. crassipes. 



TENASSERIM ; at Moulmc-in, Parish. 



37. B. cupreum, LindL in Sot. Reg. 1838, Misc. 95 ; scape slender 

 decurved, sheaths distant, raceme elongate lax-fld., bracts narrow equalling 

 the yellow or reddish-yellow flowers, sepals and (not aristate) petals ovate- 

 lanceolate acuminate, lip narrow, auricles entire or obscurely toothed, 

 columnar spurs slender. Walp. Ann. vi. 257 ; Reichb. f. in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xxx. 152 (var. stenopetala). 



TENASSERIM, Parish. MANILLA (Hort. Loddiges}. 



This again -so closely resembles a lax-flowered state of B. Careyanum, as to be 

 with difficulty distinguishable in the dried state. Lindley describes the flowers as 

 copper-coloured and smelling of Valerian roots. Reichenbach's var. stenopetala 

 seems hardly different ; it has orange-yellow flowers. His var. flava, Gard. Chron. 

 1882, i. 330, of which the habitat is ui known, may be B. nilgherrense ? 



38. B. nilgherrense, Wightlc.t.1650; scape stout elongate, sheaths 

 few distant, racemes lax-fld , bracts acute much shorter than the flowers, 

 lateral sepals oblong, dorsal broadly ovate, petals triangular-ovate acumi- 

 nate, auricles of lip entire or toothed, columnar spurs lanceolate. Sot. 

 Mag. t. 5050 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 256. 



MALABAR ; on the NILGHIRI HILLS, &c., Wight. 



Habit of B. Careyanum, but scape more slender, with few sheaths, racemes 

 fewer and larger flowered, and bracts very short. Flowers described by Wight as 

 sepals dull brownish -yellow, lip greenish-brown ; in Bot. Mag. figure the sepals are 

 green and purple, the lip purple. In a plant cult, at Kew apparently of this the 

 auricles of the lip are wanting. 



39. B. ruiilabrum, Parish mss. scape sbort, racemes many and 

 dense-fld., bracts very small, flowers small, sepals subequal ovate-oblong 

 obtuse, dorsal narrower, petals broadly ovate acuminate, tip serrulate, li 

 shortly stipitate scabrid, columnar teeth short. B. limbatum, Par. 

 Reichb. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 152 (not of LindL). 



TENASSERTM ; on trees at Mergui, Parish. 



Rhizome slender ; pseudobulb broadly ovoid or subglobose,. -i-f in. long. Leaf 

 l|-2 in., subsessile, elliptic or oblong. Scape with raceme 2 in., sheath loose ; 

 bracts equalling the ovary ; flowers % in. long, dull purple. Colours described from 

 Parish's drawing named limbatum by Reichenbach, who describing them from a 

 living plant (in Hort. Saunders) says that the dorsal sepal is red spotted with yellow, 

 the lateral brown spotted yellow and with a green mesial line, the lip as dark purple. 

 The leaves he says are lurid violet beneath. 



40. B. microtepalum, Reichb.f. in Walp. Ann.vi. 253 ; scape slender, 

 sheaths small distant, raceme dense-fld., bracts lanceolate equalling the 

 small flowers, sepals ovate-lanceolate acuminate, petals very broadly 

 triangular shorter than the column, lip minute, spurs of column recurved, 

 tips toothed. 



TENASSPRIM; at Moulmein, Loll (in Herb. LindL). 



Rhizome stout; pseudobulbs 1 in., ovoid. Leaf in., rather longer than the 

 scape and raceme, shortly petioled, linear-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, flowers i in. 

 long; auricles of lip obscurely toothed. The sm.ill flowers, minute petals (" tepals," 

 Reichb. f,), and peculiar spurs of the column distinguish this. 



