74 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
apical processes, and with.a large callus below the stigma; the foot short, curved. 
Anther apiculate, glandular-pubescent; the lip oblong and ciliate, pollinia broadly elliptic. 
Hook, fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 767. В. cirrhopetaloides, Griff. Notul. III, 290. Bulbophyllum 
sp., Ic. Pl. Asiat., t. 296, fig. 1. В. cariniferum, Reichb. fil. in Walp. Ann. VI, 253. 
Sikkim; at Rungbee, elevation 5,000 to 6,000 feet; Pantling, No. 192; in flower in 
September. Khasia Hills; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 5140), Hooker fil. and Thomson 
(Bolb. 23). _ 
A species not hitherto recorded from Sikkim. The flower is remarkable for the 
spurs which run parallel to the dorsal sepal and to the petals, and which are homologous with 
the spurs of the Burmese В. zylophyllum. The sepals are dull purple with green on the 
edges and keels; the lip is purple with a yellowish apex; the petals pale purple with dark 
purple apices; the column and the spurs lying parallel to the dorsal sepals and to the petals 
are greenish, Although more closely associated with the dorsal than with the lateral sepals, 
the two spurs really originate from the apex of the ovary, and not from either the sepals 
or petals. Griffith suggests that they may be appendages of two of the costæ of the ovary. 
Pirate 99.—Bulbophyllum bisetum, Lindl. A plant, of natural size, Fig. 1 a flower, side view, 
2 the same, front view, З the back of the column with the spurs of the lateral sepals, the spathulate 
petals, and the apex of the lip, 4 part of ovary, column and its foot, and the lip, seen from the side, 5 lip, 
6 column with its subulate apical processes and anterior callosity, the anther in situ, and the curved foot, 
7 anther, 8 pollinia; all enlarged. | | 
12. BULBOPHYLLUM CORNU-CERVI, King and Pantling in Journ. Аз. Soc. Bengal, 
Vol. LXIV; Pti 9, 838. 
Rhizome none; pseudo-bulbs minute, crowded, globular, “1 to °15 in. in diam. Leaf 
coriaceous, sessile, or shortly petiolate, obovate-elliptie, the apex rounded and entire, 
tapering slightly to the base, 1 to 15 in. long and 6 to *8 in. broad; petiole 0 to 
"95 in. Scape slender, erect, twice as long as the leaves or longer; the peduncle about 
as long as the raceme, with one or two small remote bracts; raceme slightly decurved, 
laxly-flowered ; floral bract ovate, acute, shorter than the stalked ovary. Flowers +25 in. long, 
green and yellow. _ Dorsal sepal oblong, blunt, resting on the column, the lateral pair 
broader, flat and slightly spreading, their margins upturned. Petals half as long as 
the sepals, lanceolate, slightly faleate, acute, l-nerved. Lip fleshy, obovate-oblong, 
much deflexed from about the middle, stipitate; the basal portion fleshy, grooved in 
the centre; the anterior portion broader and thinner, convex, entire, blunt. Column very 
short, with stout 2-3-fid broad apical processes varying somewhat in size and shape ; 
the foot flat, very slightly curved, with a short raised mesial line which begins as a 
hook at the lower margin of the stigma and extends to nearly the apex, Anther 
eompressed, its lip truncate. 
‘Sikkim; near the base of the Engo ridge, at an eleyation of probably about 
2,500 feet; Pantling, No. 264; in flower in July. 
| The sepals of this are green with reddish-brown margins, the petals are green, 
the lip yellow in its anterior and reddish-brown in its posterior half. The column 
and its processes are white, and the foot reddish-brown. The species is named from 
its columnar processes which resemble in shape the ‘horns of an elk, Its nearest ally 
is probably the Burmese В. alcicorne, Par. and Reichb. fil., which ha 
з a short drooping 
densely-flowered raceme and compressed fleshy flowers, | à; 
