188 OXLVIII. ORCHIDBJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Supplement, $c. 



Leaf f-1 in., acute or obtuse, coriaceous. Scape f-1 in., 3-5-fld., sheaths few small, 

 bracts lanceolate nearly as long as the ovary or shorter, flowers orange-yellow ; 

 sepals about in. long, dorsal rather the shortest ; lip tongue-shaped. 



30. B. LEPTANTHTJM. After Ic. Plant, insert 2039 A, and in line 4 for 3- 

 nerved sepals read 1-nerved petals. Var. ? Oamblei. After a further comparison 

 of specimens with JB. leptanthum, I am convinced of the specific distinctness of this 

 variety, which I have figured in the " Icones Plantarum" as B. Gamblei t. 2039 B. 



P. 760. 3. B. KINGII. .After Ic. Plant, insert t. 2053 ined. 



P. 761. Under 37. B. CUPREUM. Dele the synon. var. stenopetala. Two very 

 closely allied species are here confounded, both natives of Tenasserim ; one is the 

 true cupreum var. stenopetalum, which, as Mr. Rolfe has pointed out to me is also 

 that author's . rufinum, a plant referred by me by oversight to 58. B. CONCHIFE- 

 BUM (which has no pseudobulb and no auricles to the lip). The following are the 

 characters of the two species : 



37. B. CUPREUM, Lindl. I. c. ; pseudobulb 1 in. subglobose, scape slender 

 inclined slightly curved, sheaths small distant, raceme 1-2 in., flowers uniformly 

 coppery yellow, bracts ovate-oblong much shorter than the ovary, lateral sepals 

 ovate-lanceolate acute, petals triangular-ovate acuminate, lip narrow obtuse auricles 

 large, columnar spurs short slender. TENASSERIM, Parish. Very like B. Carey- 

 anum, but the rhizome and scape are much more slender, the flowers fewer and less 

 dense, and the petals are not aristate. Lindley's description is wholly insufficient. 

 In his specimen the petals and auricles of the lip are serrulate, in others that flowered 

 at Kew they are entire. The Manilla habitat is no doubt an error. 



37/1. B. RUFINUM, Reichb. f. Xen. Orchid, iii. 45 t. 219 ; pseudobulb 2 in. 

 oblong, scape long stout decurved, sheaths large, raceme 6-10 in. lax -fid., bracts 

 lanceolate about as long as the flowers, flowers dirty-yellow with red streaks on the 

 sepals, lateral sepals and small petals narrowly lanceolate acuminate, lip narrow 

 obtuse, auricles small entire, columnar spurs slender. B. cupreum var. stenopetalum, 

 Reichb. /. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 152. TENASSERIM, Parish. The large pseudo- 

 bulb, stout large scape, long raceme and bracts, narrow sepals, and colour of the 

 flowers readily distinguish this from cupreum and Careyanum. 



P. 764. 32. B. GYMNOPUS. After Ic. Plant, insert t. 2040. 



53. B. THOMSONI ,, t. 2041. 



54. B. SECUNDUM ,, ,, t. 2042. 



P. 766. 58. B. CONCHIFERUM, dele B. rufinum, &c. See above, No. 37/1. 



61. B. APODFM. After Ic. Plant, insert t. 2043. 



62. B. WRAYI t. 2044. 

 P. 767. 63. B. LEFT OSEP ALUM ,, t. 2045. 



64. B. HYMENANTHUM ,, t. 2046, and after it place 



64/1. B. ADENOPETALUM, Lindl. in Sot. Reg. 1842, Misc. 85; pseudobulbs 

 obsolete, leaves petioled oblong obtuse base scarcely pseudobulbous, spike rather 

 longer thau the leaf many-sheathed below many-fld., sepals acuminate, petals 

 spathulate acute glandular within, lip narrowly ovate obtuse ciliate base channelled. 

 Walp. Ann. vi. 255. 



SINGAPORE ; Hort. Loddiges. 



Flowers yellowish, slightly sweet-scented. Described from Lindley ; there is no 

 specimen in his Herbarium, only a sketch of the flower, in which the ovate sepals 

 are narrowed into long capillary points. Two different Philippine species in Herb. 

 Hook, and in Herb. Lindley, both labelled by that author B. adenopetalum, led me 

 to suppose that the latter had been erroneously attributed to Singapore, whence my 

 exclusion of it from the Flora. 



64/2. B. VERMICULARE, Hook. f. Ic. Plant, t: 2054; rhizome very slender 

 tortuous, leaves small linear-oblong obtuse base narrowed, scape short slender few- 

 fid., sepals 1-nerved dorsal linear, lateral ovate -lanceolate uncinately falcate, petals 

 narrowly linear 1-nerved, lip linear-oblong obtuse 3-nerved hairy. 



