66 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
1. BULBOPHYLLUM: LISTERI, King and Pantling in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. LXIV, 
pt. 2, 334. 
Rhizome none; pseudo-bulbs narrowly ovoid, compressed, *3 in. long, obliquely and 
alternately arranged and sub-imbricate. Leaf linear-oblong, tapering to each end, sessile, 
fleshy, 1 to 1:25 in. long and “15 to ‘2 in. broad. Flowers solitary, on very short 
pedicels from the bases of both old and new pseudo-bulbs, and much shorter than the 
latter; the stalked ovary proceeding from the short pedicel and partly enclosed іп 
its three or four sheathing shrivelled bracts; the floral tract proper lanceolote, acumi- 
nate, longer than the ovary. Flowers about 15 in. long. Sepa’s unequal, and with 
ciliolate margins; the dorsal ovate-lanceolate, blunt, spreading; the lateral pair slightly 
longer and with obliquely truncate apices cohering by their inner margins nearly to 
the tips, and forming a kind of trough in which the lip lies. Petals broadly ovate, 
with obtuse erose apices; the middle third of the side minutely ciliolate. ip oblong- 
lanceolate, stipitate, slightly deflexed from the base, flat, not tumid ; the upper surface 
with a central thickened line throughout its entire length; the edges ciliolate almost 
from the base to near the blunt apex. Column very short; its apical processes long 
and falcately curved upwards; the mentum very little curved. Anther galeate and with 
a filiform attachment to the column; pollinia unequal, the outer two elliptic, curved, the 
inner very small. P : | NS | | : 
British Bhotan, at the Rumpti Lake, some miles from the Sikkim frontier, elevation 
about 1,000 feet; Pantling No. 113; flowering in March. 
This remarkable species was discovered by Mr. J. L. Lister of the Bhotan Cin- 
chona Association, and at one time Curator of the Botanie Garden, Caleutta, who gave 
it to Mr. Pantling. It is one of the most curious of the whole genus. The flowers 
are of a dull lake colour. | 
Рглте 90.—Bullophyllum Listert, King and Pantling. Two plants, of natural size. Fig. 1 a 
flower, 2 pedicel with its sheaths, floral bract proper, stalked ovary, column with the anther in 
situ, mentum and lip, seen. from. the side, З the petals, 4 column, showing Ив falcate apical 
processes and mentum, 5 lip, 6 anther, 7 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
2. BULBOPHYLLUM Grirrirau, Reichb. fil. in Walp- Ann. VI, 247. 
Pseudo-bulbs coespitose, narrowly ovoid, compressed, “6 to "75 in. long. Leaf sessile, 
narrowly oblong, tapering slightly to the ends, deflexed more or less at a right angle to 
the pseudo-bulb, the apex blunt, entire, length 1:5 to 2 in., width *4 to ‘5 in. Inflorescence, 
l-lowered ; the flower about ‘75 in. across; floral bract cupular, much shorter than 
the slender curved stalked ovary. Sepals sub-equal, ovate-oblong, acute. Petals ovate, 
abruptly acute, the margins near the apex minutely erose. Lip oblong, sub-acute, with 
two forward-pointing tooth-like - auricles near the base and two slender crenate ridges 
running from these on the upper surface, but disappearing near the apex; the base 
delicately jointed to the much produced foot of the column, Column short, with broad 
triangular wings about the middle opposite. the stigma, the apex with two small sharp 
teeth, Pollinia in two free pairs. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 756. Surcopodium Grifithi, 
Lindl. Fol. Orch. 6. Bulbophyllum sp. Griff. Ic. Pl. Asiat., t. 296, fig. 2 (not of Notul. 
and It. Notes). ?Dendrob. bulbophylli, Griff. It. Notes, 65, No. 1019. 
Sikkim; at Lachung; elevation 9,000 feet; G. A. Gammie, No. 1005; in flower 
during August. Khasia Hills; Hooker and. Thomson. ; 
