104 MALAXIDEX. 
solitary, capitate, umbellate, spicate or racemose, Sepals subequal or the lateral pair 
longer than the dorsal (rarely twice as long); the lateral pair adnate to the foot of 
the column. Petals various, usually much smaller than the dorsal sepal. Zip jointed on 
the foot of the column, mobile, usually small and strongly recurved. Column very short, 
often 2-aristate at the apex. Anther 2-celled; pollinia 4, the two inner reduced in 
size,—Species about 250, tropical and subtropical, chiefly Asiatic, a few in Africa, 
Australia and America. 
Flowers solitary, on a long pedicel, scape very short . 1. B. affine. 
Flowers racemose or spicate:— 
Rhizome short, pseudo-bulbs usually crowded, leafless when 
in flower . қ š ç А > ; қ 4 . 2, В. polyriisum, 
Rhizome slender, with distant pseudo-bulbs, flowers and 
leaves coétaneous.. š ‹ š š . ; . 9. B. reptans, 
1. BULBOPHYLLUM AFFINE Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 1982. 
Rhizome long, stout, densely rooting. Pseudo-bulbs about 7*5 cm. apart, 3 to 4 cm. 
long, cylindric, slightly thickened at the base. Leaf narrowly oblong, obtuse, tapering 
to the base, 7°5 to 1775 cm. long, shortly petioled. Scape very short, bracteate, 
from the sides of the base of a  pseudo-bulb, or from the rhizome between the 
pseudo-bulbs, bearing a single flower. Flowers 2 to 2°5 ст. long, pedicelled, pale green 
streaked with red, smooth. Sepals subequal, lanceolate, subacute, 5-nerved, not reflexed, 
the lateral pair falcate. Petals a little 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 greenish-yellow, rather stout, its foot short. Anther 
conical, scabrid ; pollinia curved. Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 48; Reichb. f. in Walp. 
Ann, уі, 246; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. v, 756; King & Pantl. in Ann. Roy Bot. Gard. 
Cale. vill, 67, t. 91.  JSarcopodium afine Lindl, in Рах. Fl, Gard, i, 155; Fol. 
Orch., Sarcopodium 5. 
Kumaon, in the Gori Valley between 4,000 and 5,000 feet; Duthie No. 24101; 
flowering in June and July. It extends eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim and the Khasia 
and Naga Hills. 
2. BULBOPHYLLUM POLYRHIZUM Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 53, 
Rhizome thread-like, branching; pseudo-bulbs crowded or distant, globular or ovoid, 
with a broad base, smooth. Leaf 66 cm. long, narrowly oblong, subacute, slightly 
narrowed to the sessile base, deciduous before the flowers open. Scape filiform, about 
1 dm. long, its suberect peduncle longer than the raceme, bearing one or two minute 
bracts, raceme inclined. lowers about 6, distant, secund, pale yellow, 8 mm. long; 
floral bract minute, oblong, about equalling the short stalk of the ovary. Sepals 
spreading, subacute; the dorsal ovate, concave; the lateral pair longer, oblong-lanceolate, 
subacute, 3-nerved. Petals much shorter than the sepals, broadly ovate, acnte, 
l-nerved, Jip stipitate, deflexed from the base, oblong, obtuse, scaberulous, the basal 
