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sessile ovary. Sepals sub-connivent, unequal; the dorsal ovate, acuminate; the lateral 
pair broadly oblong, unequal-sided; their inner edges straight, parallel and cohering, 
the outer rounded; the apices acute, entire. Petals falcate-lanceolate, truncate at the 
base, the apex acumivate and denticulate. Zip thick, ovate, deflexed about the middle, 
the apex obtuse, papillose, the posterior half deeply grooved. Column with large fleshy 
unequally tridentate apical processes; the foot rather straight, swollen in the middle. 
Anther quadrate, flattened, and with a fleshy oval centre. Wall. Pl. As. Rar. I, t. 69; 
Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind..V, 765. 
Sikkim; at elevations of 6,000 to 7,000 feet; Clarke, King, Thompson, Pantling 
No. 239. Nepal; Wallich. Assam and Khasia Hills; Griffith No. 5128 (Kew Distrib.) ; 
J. D. Hooker and T. Thomson; Mann (at 4,000 feet); in flower from October to January. 
The column is of a paler purple than the rest of the flower, and the floral bract is 
of the same tint. The colour of other parts of the flower makes the nearest possible 
approach to black. The plant which we here figure and describe is that which is found 
in Sikkim. But, according to Sir Joseph Hooker, there is considerable variation in speci- 
mens from different localities. He describes a sheath rising from near the apex of the 
peduncle and embracing the base of the spike, but this sheath is not usually found in the 
Sikkim plant. The colour of the flower also is described by him as white or pink; 
and in a form collected by Wallich in Nepal (but of which no specimen is extant) 
it is said to be yellow. Sir Joseph admits two varieties, (a) cylindraceum proper, with the 
upper sheath of the peduncle embracing the base of the spike, and (b) var.  KAasiana, 
with the sheath smaller and distant from the spike. The Sikkim plant rarely has this 
sheath. 
The synonymy of these varieties is given by Sir Joseph Hooker as follows :— 
cylindraceum proper = В. imbricatum, Griff. Notul. III, 289. | 
уат, Khasiana = В, Khasianum, Griff. Notul. III, 281; Reichb. fil. in Gard. 
Chron. 1878, И, 716. 
Prate 96.— Bulbophyllum cylindraceum, Lindl. A plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 dorsal sepal, 2 flower, 
ovary and bract, 3 ovary, column with its foot, and the lip, seen from the side, 4 lip, 5 the petals, 
6 column showing its tridentate apical processes, the foot with its anterior dilatation, and the pollinia 
in situ, 7 anther, 8 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
9. BULBOPHYLLUM CAREYANUM, Spreng. Syst. Veg. III, 732. 
Rhizome stout, woody, “2 in. thick; pseudo-bulbs erect, ovoid, ribbed, about 3 in. 
apart, 15 in. long and about 1:2 in. in diameter, Leaf oblong, sub-sessile, tapering to 
each end; the apex sub-acute, notched; length 5 to 10 in.; breadth :8 to 1°65 in. 
Scape about the length of the pseudo-bulb, stout, brown, and clothed with many 
lanceolate bracts of the same colour, bearing at its apex a densely-flowered decurved 
raceme 2 to 3 in. long; foral bract lanceolate, longer than the stalked ovary. Flowers 
-25 to °3 in. long, imbricate, dark brown, shining, Sepals unequal; the lateral pair 
oblong-ovate, acute, cohering by their tips but free at the base; the dorsal smaller, 
oblong, acute, quite free from the laterals from its base. Petals only about one-third 
of the size of the sepals, fleshy, narrowly triangular, with caudate-acuminate apices 
and with а few projecting bristle-like teeth on the edges. Lip longer than the petals, 
oblong, with a broad base and two short faleate side lobes or auricles obscurely erose 
at the apices, the edges minutely ciliolate. Column rather stout, with two short broad 
apical teeth and a short curved foot. Lip of anther erose; pollinia obovoid. Wall. 
Cat. 1990-1; Lindl. Gen, and Spec. Orchid., 51; Reichb. fil. in Walp. Ann. VI, 256; 
