80 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
З in. long and :25 to °75 in. broad, Scape from near the base of a pseudo-bulb, 
nearly as long as the leaf, clothed with pale lanceolate sheathing bracts, and with 
several large brown scarious sheaths at its base; bearing many flowers in a compact 
umbel or capitulum *5 to °75 in. in diam.; floral bract lanceolate, concave, entire, 
exceeding the stalked ovary. Flower "2 to °З in. long, white. Sepals sub-equal, lanceo- 
late, acuminate, faleate, spreading, the tips terete, Petals about one-sixth of the 
size of the sepals, ovate, Lip slightly longer than the petals, fleshy, oblong-lanceo- 
late, convex, but with a central groove covered with capitate hairs, the margin 
fringed with similar hairs, Column stout, its foot very short, its apical teeth small, 
slightly winged below; stigma prominent, Anther with a thickened papillose crest. 
Poilinia divergent, the inner two very small. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 758. Stelis 
odoratissima, Smith in Rees Cyclop. XXXIV; 8, caudata, Don Prodr., 32. 7уйгасһіа 
odoratissima, Lindl, Coll. Bot, 41. 
Sikkim ; alt. 3,000 to 7,000 feet; Hooker and others; common; Pantling, No. 16; 
in flower from May to September. Chumbi Valley. Nepal; Wallich. Khasia Hills. 
Tenasserim; Helfer (Kew Distrib., Nos. 5167, 5168). Moulmein ; R. Scott. Also found 
in China. 
The flowers are in the main white, but the sepals and Dak of the column and 
its foot are tinged with yellow. The flowers are sweet-smelling. Some specimens in 
the Caleutta herbarium are noted as having been found at so low an elevation as 
1,000 feet in the Teesta valley. The elevation at which the specimens from the 
Khasia Hills and Burma were collected is not known. No nerves are visible in the 
sepals or petals when fresh. Plants from high elevations have longer flowers than 
those from lower levels. 
Peate 109.— Bulbophyllum odoratissimum, Lindl. A plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 a flower, 2 
floral bract, stalked ovary, column and lip, seen from the side, 3 lip, 4 capitate hairs from the 
central groove on the lip, 5 column and its foot, 6 anther, 7 pollinia; all enlarged. 
22. BULBOPHYLLUM CAULIFLOnUM, Hook. fil., Ic. Plantar., t. 2036. 
Rhizome woody, branching, naked, *15 in. thick. Pszudo-bulbs cylindric-elliptic, about 3 in. 
apart, “1 to 1°75 in. long, obliquely attached to the rhizome. Leaf oblong, obtuse, sudden- 
ly narrowed at tbe base into the short petiole; length 2 to 4 in., breadth '75 to 1:25 in., 
petiole "25 in, Scape about as long as the pseudo-bulb, slender, sub-umbellately 
4-to-5-flowered, bracteate at the base; floral bracts equalling or exceeding the stalked 
ovaries, lanceolate, acute, entire. Flowers “45 or'6 in. long, green, flushed with brown. 
Sepals linear-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, rather longer than the lanceolate petals, 
their apices curved ог hooked, all entire and spreading slightly. Zip shorter than 
the petals, lanceolate, deflexed below the middle, excavated along the middle of the 
upper surface, the apex sub-acute, the base truncate and jointed on to the apex of 
the rather short curved foot. Column broad, with two long decurved filiform spurs at the 
apex, stigmatic cavity very large. Anther with a small acute а lip; inner 
pair of pollinia much reduced. Hook. fil. Fl Вт. Ind. V, 758. 
Sikkim; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 5165), Hooker; on Sittong, in the Government 
Cinehona Plantatior, elevation 5, 000 to 6,000 feet, Pantling, No. 221; in flower in dy 
Khasia Hills; Griffith (Kew Distrib, No, 5139). 
