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BULBOPHYLLUM. 



Loddiges, in 1836. It is a most carious orchid, which we have 

 seen in flower in Sir Trevor Lawrence's collection at Burford 

 Lodge on more than one occasion, and we cannot better convey an 



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Bulbophylluin barbigeruw. 



(Copied from the Botanical Magazine.) 



idea of some of its peculiarities than by transcribing the following- 

 particulars from Dr. Lindley's description in the Botanical Register : — 

 " The lip is one of the most extraordinary organs known, even 

 among orchidaceous plants ; the very long purple threads forming the 

 brush at the point of the lip are so excessively delicate that the 

 slightest disturbance of the air sets them in motion, when they wave 

 gently to and fro like a tuft of threads cut from a spider's web. 

 Nor is this all ; the lip itself, with its yellow felt, its two beards 

 and its long purple brush, is articulated with the column by such a 

 very slight joint, that to breathe upon it is sufficient to produce a 

 rocking movement, so conspicuous and protracted that one is tempted 

 to believe that there must he something of an animal nature infused 

 into this most unplant-like production." 



