o66 G. King & 11. Pantling — Neic Indo-Malayan Orchids. [No. 3,. 



much curved. Anther with a triangular concave lip ; pollinia very 

 unequal, the inner pair very narrow. 



Assam ; collected by Mr. G. E. Rita and also by Sir Henry Collett, 

 K.C.B., lately commanding the troops in Assam. 



A species allied to B. cauliflorum, Hook, fil., which is, however, a 

 much larger plant with slightly different sepals and petals. The habit 

 of growth of the two is moreover different, for this species grows in 

 dense masses, whereas B. cauliflorum is very straggling, and there is a 

 difference of two months between the seasons of flowering of the 

 two. This is allied also to B. protractum, Hook, fil., but has longer and 

 more numerous flowers than that species, and the petals are lanceolate- 

 acuminate ; whereas B. protractum has narrowly elliptic sub-acute petals 

 and it has also narrower pseudo-bulbs. 



Bulbophyllum oblanceolatum, n. spec. Pseudo-bulbs none ; rhizome 

 stout, densely clothed with coarse fibres and roots. Leaves rising singly 

 from the rhizome, ob-lanceolate, sub-acute, tapering in the lower half to 

 the stout plano-convex petiole ; length of blade to 8 in., breadth 

 115 to 1*4 in., length of petiole 2 to 2'75 in. Raceme from the rhizome 

 near a leaf, with its peduncle as long as or rather shorter than the 

 leaf; the peduncle forming one-third and bearing several lax mem- 

 branous sheaths each 5 in. long. Flowers numerous but not 

 crowded, "3 in. across ; floral bract lanceolate, about as long as the 

 •stalked ovary. Sepals spreading widely, linear-lanceolate, finely acu- 

 minate, 1 -nerved, the dorsal smaller than the lateral pair and gibbous 

 at the base ; the lateral pair subfalcate. Petals one-third of the length 

 of the dorsal sepal, linear, acuminate, 1 -nerved. Lip half as long as 

 the dorsal sepal, curved from the base, 3-lobed ; the side-lobes erect, 

 rounded, gradually merging in front with the narrowly oblong sub- 

 acute fleshy apical lobe. Column very short ; the apical teeth small, 

 sharp, erect. 



Perak ; on Gunong Batu Pateh, at an elevation of 3400 feet, Wray, 

 No. 980. 



The flowers are said by Mr. Wray to be of a pale straw colour. 

 The species is allied to B. apodum, Hook, fil., but has a longer raceme 

 and larger flowers than that species ; moreover the petals in this are 

 much shorter in proportion to the dorsal sepal, and the lip has very 

 different side lobes. 



Bulbophyllum linearifolium, n. spec. Rhizome '15 in., thickly 

 clothed with short scarious sheaths ; pseudo-bulbs none. Leaves solitary, 

 about *5 in. apart, linear, slightly curved, acute, narrowed at the base 

 to a petiole 1 to 2 in. long; length of blade 4 to 6 in., breadth '3 to "5 in. 

 Inflorescence very slender, erect, subflexuose, about half as long as the 



