Bulbophyllum.) ORCHIDACE.E. 1011 
membranous and deciduous. Flowers usually in whorled umbels, 
sometimes capitate, rarely racemose, often dorsally compressed, 
on scapes rising from the base of a pseudobulb. Sepals dorsal, 
short, concave, rarely half as long as the lateral, usually muc 
shorter ; lateral usually much elongated and acuminate, oblique, 
often connate by their inner edges, their bases adnate to the sides 
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less mobile. Column short, its apex with 2, rarely 4, ioctl like 
appendages, the foot more or less prodnnee Anther 2-locular ; 
pollinia 4, waxy, cohering in one mass and sometimes attached by . 
theis lower ends to a mass of viscid tissue, the two inner usually 
small and lamelliform. 
Flowers usually solitary; lateral sepals 3-4 in. long, linear-lanceolate 
with filiform m tips; dorsal sepal and petals sites apical tuits of purple 
aaa palee; column with 2 decurved arms; casi ulbs 
atissimum 
Flow ers many, umbelled ; lateral sepals under 1 in. a gavel 
obtuse ; dorsal sepal and petals ciliate ; column unarmed ; nen dobulbs 
globose xburghii 
Pee eee eeen 
2045. CrrRHopETAaLUM oRNATISSIMUM Reichb. fe BeBe iv. 2s: 
hota Nagpur. 
An epiphyte, with ovoid pseudobulbs. 
2046. CrrruopeTaLuM pens Lindl; «Pei By ews 194: 
Hrides radiatum F. 476. 
Sundribun 
An osaiead: with small, subglobose pseudobulbs. 
897. Bulbophyllum Thouars. 
Epiphytic herbs ; ; pseudobulbs from a creeping rhizome, rarely 
0; leaves solitary, coriaceous, and jee rarely binary, mem- 
branous, and deciduous. Flowers on scapes from the rhizome 
usually close to pseudobulbs, racemose, spicate, capitate, umbelled 
°r solitary. Sepals s ubequal or the lateral rather longer than 
dorsal, and free or connate under the lip. Petals usually smaller 
than dorsal sepal. Lip articulate with foot of column, mobile, 
small, usually much recurved. Colwmn very short; apex often 
“aristate. Anther 2-celled; pollinia 4, the two inner smaller, 
rarely obsolete. 
