1536 CXXVII. ORCHIDE^. [BuIboplnjllwiK 



Leaves oval, 4 to 6 lines long, fleshy. Flowers solitary. Scapes about 



4 lines long. Sepals greenish-yellow, margined with a purple line . 8. B. BoirhetUe. 

 Leaves flat, thin, lanceolate, J to IJin. long. Flowers 2 to 4 racemose 



on filiform peduncles, whitish . ." 9. B. exiriunm. 



Leaves very minute often wanting on the fleshy lenticular pseudo-bulbs. 



Flowers red in the bud, the open flowers striped with red 10. B. mumtissimum. 



Leases almost cymbiforra, rugose, 3 to 4 lines long, fleshy. Flowers 



yellowish-white. Petals membranous. Labellum middle-lobe yellow . 11. B. Toressoe. 

 Leaves 1 to IJin. long, Jin. thick, wrinkled with foveolar dots. Flo«ers 4 



lines long. Sepals pale-pink, 5-nerved. Petals 1-nerved 12. B. Prenticei. 



Leaves oblong, recurved, } to lin. long, 3 lines broad. Eaceme including 



very sh^rt peduncle, 2in. long. Bracts near the flowers cordate. 



Flowers mottled with purple . . 13. B. hracteatum. 



Leaves narrow-oblong, IJ to 3in. long. Racemes with peduncles 5 to Gin. 



long. Flowers greenish-white tinged with pink, secund. Labellum purple 14. B. Elis<e. 

 Leaves oblong, 3 to 6ia. long, lin. broad. Scape slender, 2Jin. long. 



Flowers dull-yellow, spotted with red-brown. Sepals 10 lines long, 4 



liaea broad. Petals smaller .... 15. B. piinchitum. 



1. B. Baileyi (after F. M. Bailey), F. v. M. Fiar/m. ix. 5. Rhizome- 

 creeping, often forming large dense masses of several feet in length and breadth 

 on the stems and branches of the tropical trees. Pseudo-bulbs of^a single articula- 

 tion short and angular. Leaves about 4in. long, often exceeding lin. broad, 

 thick coriaceous, channelled, tapering to a short petiole. Peduncle short covered 

 by membranous bracts. Pedicel about 2in. long. Dorsal sepal lanceolate, about 

 8 li^es long, lateral ones falcate, lanceolate, spotted with purple on the outside, 

 white on the inside. Petals shorter and narrower but spotted like the sepals. 

 Labellum linguiform, thick obtuse, arched, spotted, about 3 lines long, chanelled 

 below. Column thick, the sidewings toothed at the top. Capsule about l^in> 

 long, prominently ribbed. — Fitzg. Austr. Orcli. ii. Pt. 5. 



Hab.: Tropical coastal scrubs. 



2. B. nematopodum (peduncles thread-like), F. i. M. Fragm. viii. 30 ; 

 Jtcnth. Fl. Anatr. vi. 287. Creeping rhizomes apparently short and dense. 

 Pseudo-bulbs closely imbricate, oblong-conical, about ^in. long. Leaves solitary, 

 linear-lanceolate, flat but thick and succulent, 3 to Sin. long, 3 to 5 lines broad, 

 attenuate towards the base without any prominent midrib. Flowers on filiform 

 peduncles of 1 to Ijin. slightly thickened at the base, very narrow and acute, yellow, 

 the sepals about 4 lines long, the dorsal one rather shorter than the lateral ones ; 

 petals linear-subulate, about 1 line long. Labellum scarcely J^ line long, 

 abruptly contracted into a short claw, the lamina nearly hastate. Column very 

 short, with two narrow erect teeth. 



Hab.: llockingham Bay, Dalliichy. 



3. B. radicans (rooting). Bail. Ql. Arjrie. Journ. i. Pt. 1. Stems elongated, 

 soaietimes to the length of several inches, clothed with scarious, striate, 

 torn sheathing scales, and long wiry roots. Psuedo-bulbs narrow-cuneate, mostly- 

 hidden by the stem-scales. Leaves linear 1^ to 2|in. long, 2 to 2|- lines broad,. 

 tapering at the base, the apex with a minute recurved point, texture thin, veins 

 obscure. Peduncles 3 or 4 lines long, filiform, bearing 2 or more loose, scarious, 

 somewhat obtuse sheathing bracts. Flowers yellow, calyx-tube slender, IJ line- 

 long. Sepals broad-lanceolate, the points acute, IJ line long, longitudinal 

 veins 3 to 5. Petals narro\\Jfcinceolate with only a central vein, hyaline and! 

 scarcely half as long as the sepals. Labellum thick, nearly as long as the sepals,, 

 expanding into side-lobes in the lower half, attached by a short claw to the basal' 

 projection of the column, disk-plates 2. Column-wings ending in rather long: 

 incurved threads. Pollen-masses oval, golden -yellow. 



Hab.: Bange near Cairns, L. J. Nugent. 



This species is nearly allied to B. nematopodum. P. v. M., and it is probable that the- 

 specimens mentioned in my report of the Bellenden-Ker Expedition in 1889 as B. 

 iieiiiiitopodum, which were not bearing flowers at the -lime, belonged to this new species. 



