770 CXLVIII. ORCHIDE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Bulbophyllum. 



76. B. virens, Hook. f. ; scape longer than the leaves, bracts ovate 

 acuminate longer than the ovary, flowers large racemose, lateral sepals 

 connate, petals quite entire, lip oblong serrulate narrowed into a long 

 stout terete striate point. lone virens, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 1 ; Walp. 

 Rep. vi. 636. Dipodium, Griff. Notul. 405 ; Ic. PL Asiat. t. 328, f. 1. 



UPPER ASSAM ; Mishrnee Hills, Griffith. 



Closely allied to B. paleaceum. " Bracts whitish with purple veins ; lateral sepals 

 white, margins greenish, veins purple ; petals purple and blood-red." 



77. B. elegrans, Gard. mss. in Thtcaites Enum. 298 ; scape very 

 slender longer than the leaf 1-fld., flower large, dorsal sepal ovate acute 

 half the length of the free or coherent oblong lanceolate acuminate lateral, 

 petals ovate -lanceolate, lip with an orbicular membranous waved base 

 traversed by a broad hard axis that terminates in a dagger- shaped apex, 

 columnar spurs long slender. 



CEYLON ; in the Hantani, &c., districts, alt. 3-5000 ft., Gardner, Thivaites. 



Pseudobulbs 3-^ in., ovoid, close-set on a slender rhizome. Leaf 3-4 in., linear- 

 lanceolate. Scape 1-2 in. ; sheath ; bract small, acute j pedicel with ovary 

 slender, f-1 in. ; flower 1-H in. long, purplish green spotted, lateral sepals forming 

 a boat-shaped body ; lip yellow purple spotted. 



** Flowers -| in. long. Lateral sepals '6-nerved. 



78. B. bicolor, Hook. f. ; scape slender shorter than the leaf, bracts 

 lanceolate longer than the ovary, flowers small, sepals subequal linear- 

 lanceolate acuminate, lateral connate at the bases, petals ovate or oblong 

 obscurely serrate, lip paudnriform traversed by a rigid axis that terminates 

 in a short or long rigid emarginate point, sides membranous lacerate. 

 lone bicolor, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 3 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 637. Sunipia bicolor, 

 Lindl. Gen. $ Sp. Orchid. 179 ; Sert. Orchid. Frontisp. f. 5. I. khasiana, 

 Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 2 ; Reichb. f. 1. c. 636. Dipodium khasianum, Griff. 

 Notul. 354 ; Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 327, f. 2. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich-, SJkkim, alt. 5-6000 ft., and Bhotan, 

 Griffith (Kew Distrib. 5137), &c. KHASIA Mxs., alt. 5000 ft., Griffith (K. D. 

 5133), &c. 



Pseudobulbs f-1 in., obpyriform, distant on a sleuder rhizome. Leaf 3-5 in,, 

 subpetioled, linear, obtuse. Scape with spike 1^-2 in.; bracts - in. ; flower very 

 membranous, | | in. long ; sepals whitish with pink veins ; lip purple. Very like 

 B. reptans, under which name it is alluded to by Bentham under lone (Gen. PL 

 iii. 503). 



79. B. candidum, Hook. f. Ic. Plant, ined. ; habit inflorescence and 

 flower of B. bicolor, but rather smaller, sepals white, lip yellow dagger- 

 shaped with membranous serrulate sides in the basal half. lone Candida, 

 Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 3; Reichb. f. in Walp. Rep. vi. 637. 



KHASIA HILLS, alt. 4-5000 ft., J. D. H. fy T. T. NAGA HILLS, Pram. 



SPECIES EXCLUDED AND UNKNOWN TO ME. 



B. ADENOPETALUM, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842, Misc. 85, which was supposed to 

 be a native of Singapore, is a Philippine Island species. 



B. ALOPECURUM, Reichb. /. in Gard. Chron. 1880, ii. 70; like B. triste but 

 larger, pseudobulb spherical, flowers shorter, sepals connate conchoid equal, petals 

 and conchoid connate equal sepals nerveless. Burma (Hort. Low'). 



B. CRASSIFOLIUM, Thio. mss. in Trimen Journ. Bot. 1885, 244; pseudobulbs 

 pisiform smooth, leaf -|-f in. sessile fleshy oval obtuse, flowers solitary very small 

 shortly peduncled in the sheath of a short truncate bract, sepals subequal broadly 



