16 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
Khasia specimens have larger flowers than those from Sikkim, but in other respects 
they agree. This species had not hitherto been collected in Sikkim. 
Pirate 102.- Bulbophyllum striatum, Reichb. fil А plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 a flower, 2 
floral bract, stalked ovary, column and lip, seen in profile, 3 lip, detached and showing the small 
basal lobes, 4 column and its foot, 5 anther, 6 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
15. BULBOPHYLLUM HYMENANTHUM; Hook. fil. Іс. Plantar., Ie. 2046. 
Rhizome slender and thread-like naked; pseudo-bulbs none. Leaves rising direct 
from the rhizome nearly 1 inch apart, sessile, fleshy, ovate or elliptic, blunt, 
“5 to ‘65 in. long and ‘25 to 4 in. broad. Scape etect, rising from the rhizome 
between the leaves and slightly longer than them, with several minute sub-tubular 
sheaths, and at the apex опе or two flowers “4 or "5 in. across; floral bract ovate, half 
as long as the stalked ovary. Sepals sub-equal, ovate, acute, Желе spreading. Petals 
about half the size of the sepals, elliptie-lanceolate, sub-acute, l-nerved. Jip longer 
than the petals, ovate-lanceolate, sharply deflexed near the base, the apex narrowed 
but blunt, the upper surface with a deep groove from the base nearly to the apex. 
Column short and' without apical processes; its foot long and much curved. Ат е” 
with a rounded lip; pollinia only two, the inner ones being suppressed. — fil. Fl. 
Br. Ind. V, 767. 
Sikkim ; in the Lachung Valley, elevation 8,000 feet; Pantling, No. 368; in flower 
in May. Khasia Hills; at Myrung, elevation 5,000 feet; Hooker and Thomson. 
. The sepals and petals in this species are yellowish, streaked with purple, the lip 
being wholly purple. 
Pirate 108.— Bulbophyllum Мутеллп ит, Hook. fil. А plant, of natural size. 1 a flower, 
2 bract, stalked ovary, column with its foot and the lip, side. view, З the petals, 4 lip, 5 column 
with anther i» situ and foot, 6 anther, 7 pollinia; all enlarged. 
16. BULBOPHYLLUM PILULIFERUM, mew species. 
Pseudo-bulbs coespitose, elobois or depressed-globose, — 95 to '3 in. dion Leaf fleshy, 
linear-oblong, obtuse, entire, the base narrowed to the very short petiole; length 4 
in breadth *5 in, petiole *15 in. Scape slender, - ‘erect, - about two-thirds as long as 
the leaves, the pedicel with one or two bracts at the base and one or two at intervals 
above, bearing at its apex a densely crowded semi-globose capitulum of flowers 
about '5 in. in diam. Flowers *12 in. across, reddish-brown; floral bract lanceolate, 
acute, half as long as the sub-sessile ovary. Sepals sub-equal, their tips spreading, 
acute, the dorsal lanceolate, the laterals ovate and parallel. Petals shorter than the 
sepals, narrowly lanceolate, acute. Lip longer than the petals but shorter than the 
sepals, elliptic, tumid, papillose, much deflexed from the base; the posterior portion 
deeply grooved; the anterior convex with entire edges and broad rounded apex. 
Column very short ; the apical processes broadly triangular, their apices slightly 
erose; the foot longer than the column. Anther truncate, the margin of its x erose ; 
pollinia pyriform, the inner pair much reduced. 
Sikkim; at an elevation of. 1,000 feet ; Pantling, NO 141; in ie in й; 
only one plant found. | | 
