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The flowers of this. species are yellowish with reddish-brown spots. It had pre- 
viously been collected only on the Khasia Hills, where it was found by Griffith and Sir 
Joseph Hooker in the-Myrung wood at an elevation of 5,000 feet. In Sikkim it was 
collected in 1892 by Mr. С. A. Gammie at Lachung, at 9,000 feet. In spite of the 
higher elevation at which it grows in Sikkim, the Lachung plants differ from those 
found in Myrung only in having broader and slightly erose petals, and leaves much 
more attenuated at the base. 
The column of this species presents a structural arrangement of the greatest int«rest, 
inasmuch аз the rostellum is represented by a large ball of yellowish viscid matter, 
similar to that found in the column in Cirrhopetalum guttulatum and С. ornatissimum. 
But in this plant the viscid ball and the pollinia are quite free and in no way 
attached to each other ; whereas, in the two species of Cirrhopetalum just referred to, 
they are connected and form a rudimentary appendage akin to that characteristie of 
Vandee. 
Рглте 147.— Bulbophyllum Griffithii, Reichb. fil. A plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 а flower, 2 
flowering peduncle showing the bract, stalked ovary, column and lip of its solitary flower, from the 
side, 3 lip, 4 column showing its apical and lateral teeth, anther, stigma and elongated foot, 5 
anther, 6 pollinia; al enlarged. 
3. BULBOPHYLLUM AFFINE, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 1982; Gen. and Spec. Orchid., 48. 
Rhizome long, densely-rooting, about ‘2 in. thick.  Pseudo-bulbs about 2 in. apart, 
cylindric, slightly thickened at the base, 1°5 to 1°75 in. long and about :3 in. 
thick. Leaf narrowly oblong, obtuse, the base narrowed; length 3 to 7 in., breadth 
"65 to 1°25 in.; petiole “25 in. Scape very short (25 in.) and .bracteate, producing 
only a single flower with a pedicelled ovary 1 to 2 in. long from the sides of the 
base of a pseudo-bulb, or from the rhizome between the pseudo-bulbs. Flowers +75 
to nearly 1 in. long, pale green with purple nerves, smooth. Sepals subequal, 
lanceolate, sub-acute, 5-nerved, not reflexed, the lateral pair faleate. Petals rather 
shorter than the sepals, 3-nerved. Lip shorter than the petals, lanceolate, thickened 
and concave at the base, the margins of the upper surface dark purple. Column 
yellowish-green, rather stout, its foot short. Anther conical, scabrid; pollinia curved. 
Reichb. fil. in Walp. Ann. VI, 246; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 756. Sarcopodium 
afine, Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. I, 155; Fol. Orchid., Sarcopodium 5. 
In the valley of the Teesta, at elevations of боші 2,000 feet; common; Pantling 
No. 154; in flower in June and July. Nepal; Wallich. Khasia Hills, at elevations 
up to 4,000 feet; J. D. Hooker and Т. Thomson, ©. Mann. Naga Hills at 
Kohima; D. Prain. : 
PrarE 91.— Bulbophyllum affine, Lindl. А plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 apex of ovary, column 
with its foot and the lip, seen from the side, 2 lip, 3 colamn and its foot with the anther in situ, 
4 anther, 5 and 6 pollinia; aJ enlarged. 
4. BULBOPHYLLUM LEOPARDINUM, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 1981; Gen. and Spec. 
Orchid., 48. eo 
Rhizome stout, covered with numerous fibrous sheaths. Pseuds-bulbs obpyriform, 
compressed, crowded, imbricate, smooth, 1 to 1:5 in. long. Leaf elliptic-oblong, the 
apex blunt but shortly mucronate, the base narrowed to the short petiole; blade 3 
Axx. Roy. Bor. Garn., CALCUTTA, Vor. VIII. 
