1897.] G-. King & R.'Pantling — Neiv Indo -Malay an Orchids. 587 



leaves ; the peduncle about 1 in. long, clothed with tubular scarious 

 sheaths. Raceme 3 or 4 times as long as the peduncle ; many-flowered 

 but not crowded. Floivers '125 in. long ; floral bract lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, as long as the slenderly stalked tumid ovary. Sepals equal in 

 length, blunt, oblong, spreading, the lateral pair broader than the dorsal 

 and very falcate. Petals only half as long as the sepals and much 

 narrower, linear, blunt, 1 -nerved, spreading. Lip oblong, acute, slightly 

 decurved from the base to the acute apex, without side lobes, the upper 

 surface grooved from the base to near the apex. Column very short ; ita 

 teeth small, blunt. 



Perak ; Scortechini (without a number). 



A species near B. suavissimum, Rolfe, but with much smaller flowers 

 and entire not erose petals. The leaves of this differ also from those 

 of that species in being linear and not at all ob-lanceolate. 



JBulbophyllum shantcam, n. spec. Pseudo-bulbs turbinate, minutely 

 rugulose, '3 or '4 in. in diam. Leaves in pairs, coriaceous, narrowly 

 oblong, blunt, abruptly narrowed at the sessile base ; length 1*5 to 225 

 in., breadth '3 to "45 in. Scape from the base of the pseudo-bnlb, erect, 

 twice as long as the leaves ; the peduncle with a few small scattered 

 sheaths; raceme lax, about 12-flowered. Flowers "15 in. long, white; 

 floral bract broadly lanceolate, acute, shorter than the stalked ovary. 

 Dorsal sepal ovate-oblong, blunt ; the lateral pair oblong, sub-falcate, 

 obtuse, blunt. Petals as long as the sepals but much narrower, 

 lanceolate, obtuse, entire in the upper half and minutely erose in the 

 lower. Lip as long as the sepals, oblong, obtuse, without lobes or 

 auricles, pubescent on both surfaces. Column stout, with broad shallow 

 wings about the middle, the apical processes bidentate ; foot long, not 

 much curved. Anther with the anterior lip pressed inward, the apex 

 mammillate. 



Shan Hills, in Upper Burmah ; in flower during November ; Cal- 

 cutta Botanic Garden Collectors. 



A species of which the nearest ally is probably B. suavissimum, 

 Rolfe. This however has two leaves, whereas the leaf in that is solitary. 

 The flowers of this are moreover smaller than those of B. suavissimum. 



Bulbophyllum Vanessa, n. spec. Rliizome slender, wire-like; 

 pseudo-bulbs ovoid-conic, closely approximate, 1 in. in length and '7 in. 

 in diam. at the base. Leaf solitary, sessile, very coriaceous, narrowly 

 elliptic-oblong, the apex acute and minutely bifid, the base much 

 narrowed and convolute ; length 8 to 10 in., breadth 1*5 in. Scape 

 slender, erect, 10 to 12 in. long, with one or two tubular sheaths in the 

 lower fourth, otherwise naked, 1-3-flowered. Floivers expanding singly, 

 3 25 in. across ; floral bract membranous, lanceolate, acuminate, 25 in. 



