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BULBOPHYLLUM DEAREI rcup. F. 
COLONEL DEARE’S BULBOPHYLLUM. 
BULBOPHYLLUM. Sepalum posticum liberum, erectum v. patens, lateralia basi oblique dilatata et pedi 
columnae adnata, mentum breve gibbiforme v. parum prominens formantia. Petala sepalis saepius parviora v. angustiora. 
Labellum cum pede columnae articulatum v. mobile, in pedem incumbens; lobi laterales parvi, saepius auriculiformes 
v. dentiformes, medius integer v. plumoso-ciliatus, recurvus, angustus v. latiusculus, saepe varie incrassatus v. medio 
lamellatus. Columna erecta, saepius brevis, basi in pedem longiusculum producta, superne bialata ; clinandrium breve 
antice bibrachiatum v. bidentatum, et interdum alae columnae infra brachia utrinque dente minore appendiculatae. 
Anthera terminalis, opercularis, incumbens, saepius bilocularis; pollinia cerea, ad normam 4, per paria in loculis 
segregata, saepe tamen cujusve paris plus minus connata, haec etiam interdum dorso connata. 
Herbae caule seu rhizomate in saxa arboresque repente radicante, vaginis scariosis plus minus obtecto. Pseudo- 
bulbi ad axillas vaginarum sessiles, monophylli v. diphylli. Scapi floriferi ad latera pseudobulborum vy. rarius in 
rhizomate sparsi, aphyllis simplices, basi sparse v. multo vaginati. Flores parvi, minuti v. rarius magni, racemosi, 
umbellati v. rarius solitarii. Bracteae saepius parvae, in paucis speciebus majores imbricataeque, rarius distichae. 
Species ad 250, pro maxima parte per regiones tropicae Africae et Asiae dispersae, perpaucae Austro-Americanae 
v. Australianae, una sola in Nova Zealandia obvia. 
Bulbophyllum THouars, Orch. Iles Afr., tt. 93-97. — BENTH. et Hook. F. Gen. Plant., UI, p. 501. 
Bulbophyllum Dearei. Pseudobulbi caespitosi, ovoidei, monophylli. Folia oblonga, subacuta, 8-15 cm. longa. 
Scapi erecti, graciles, 10-12 cm. longi, uniflori. Flores speciosi. Sepalum posticum elliptico-oblongum, acutum, erectum, 
3-5-4.5 cm. longum; lateralia falcata, lanceolata, acuta, postico paullo breviora. Petala reflexa, lineari-lanceolata, 
acuta 3-3.5 cm. longa. Labellum 1 cm. longum, basi profunde sagittato-cordatum, carnosum, dein late reniformi- 
triangulum, membranaceum, apice reflexum. Columna brevissima, alis obtusis. 
Bulbophyllum Dearei Reus. F. in Flora, LXXI (1888), p. 108. — VeItcH Man. Orch., pt. III, p. 96. 
Sarcopodium Dearei Hort. Gard. Chron., 1883, pt. II, p. 108, fig. 17. 
his handsome Bulbophyllum, one of the few to which the term can 
fairly be-:applied, flowered in the collection of Lieut. Colonel Dear, 
of Englefield Green, near Egham, in 1883, when it was exhibited 
at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society under the name of Sarcopodium 
Dearet, and afterwards figured and described in the Gardeners’ Chronicle. It was 
introduced from Borneo. Some few years later a second habitat was found, 
as plants were introduced from one of the south Philippine Islands, and though 
at first described as a new species it has proved to be identical with the Bornean 
plant. It is one of the few Bulbophyllums which has received the award of a 
First-class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society. 
It is a small tufted plant, with ovoid monophyllous pseudobulbs, oblong 
coriaceous leaves, and single flowered scapes as long as or slightly longer 
than the leaves. The flowers are large and very prettily coloured; the dorsal 
sepal is tawny yellow with reddish brown veins connected by similar transverse 
ones, and forming an elegant network; the two lateral sepals are yellow stained 
with dark purple; and the petals lightish yellow somewhat veined with brown. 
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