Bulbdphyllum.] CXXVII. ORCHlDEiE. 1539 



the length of the sepals. Labellum o£ equal length with, the other, segments, 

 8-lobed, lateral lobes dotted with purple, very short ; middle lobe blunt and thick, 

 bright-yellow; column short and, for the size of the flower, prominently winged. 

 Hab.: On the shady rooks, Whelanian Pools ; in flower in June and July. 



12. B. Frenticei (after Dr. Chas. Prentice), F. v. M. South. Sci. Bee. 1881, 

 p. 173. Ehizome creeping, its scales soon bursting into shreads, ellipsoid or 

 narrow-cylindrical, blunt, 1 to l^in. long,; ^in. thick, faintly wrinkled, with 

 foveolar dots, the irregular pseudo-bulbs very short. Flowers 4 lines long; 

 Sepals pale-pink towards the base, 5-nerved. Petals 1-nerved. Labellum yellow, 

 cuneate at the base, lobeless. Column very short, the wings ending in a tooth at 

 the side of the anther. Capsule about 4 lines long, oblique-obovate attenuated 

 at the base. .^ , , . . . r .< 



Hab.: Bellenden-Ker Eange. 



13. B. bracteatum (bracteate). Bail. Uot. Bidl. iv. 17. Ehizome shortly 

 creeping. Pseudo-bulbs glossy, depressed-globular, ci or 4 hnes diameter, 

 crowded upon the rhizome, wrinkled, and ribbed with from 6 to 8 prominent 

 wavy angles. Leaves solitary, oblanceolate or oblong, recurved, f to lin. long, 

 about 3 lines broad in the centre, coriaceous, deep-green ; midrib prominent and 

 the 2 or 8 longitudinal veins on each side more or less so. Raceme including 

 the very short peduncle about 2in. long ; bracts on peduncle narrow-linear, those 

 at the top so close as to form an involucre to, the base of the raceme ; brq,Qts of 

 raceme cordate-acuminate, about Inline long, the upper' ones' subtending the 

 flowers , smaller, the rhachis and bracts glaucous or hoary white. Flowers 

 including the pedicels about 3 lines long, mottled of a dull-purple; pedicels striate, 

 scarcely exceeding the subtending bract. Lateral and dorsal sepals ndottled purple 

 with ; light-coloured margins, broad-lanceolate, 3-nerved, the petals 1-nerved, 

 narrow-linear, shorter than the sepals and of a paler colour, erect on each side of 

 the column. Labellum very short, thick and linguiform, buff on the upper, nearly 

 black on the urider surface and glossy, claw elastic and as long as the lamina, 

 3-nerved below the articulation ; column very short ; anther-lid rotund, nearly 

 white ; pollen-masses golden-yellow (in the flower dissected I found only 2 

 globular pollen -masses). 



Hab.: Numminbali, Upper Nerang, li. Schneider ; Killarney, Joseph ^Vedd. 



Mr. E. D. Fitzgerald, to whom I sent after making the above description my only specimen 

 that he might figure it in his illustrated monograph o£ the Australian orchids, wrote me that 

 he thought it identical with his then lately described Jdelopetalian bracteatmn; but according 

 to his diagnosis of that genus (a copy of. which he kindly. sent me) the flowers are apetalous, 

 while in my plant it will be seen I had described these organs. With regard to the pollen- 

 masses being reduced to 2, Mr. Bentham mentions this being the case at times in plants of the 

 genus Bulhophyllvm. As, however, I think the two plants may prove identical, I use the same 

 word for the specific name, leaving botanists to adopt whichever genus they think fit. 



14. B. Blisffi (after Elisa Kern), F. v. M. Fraijm. vi. 120 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 vL 289. Rhizome shortly creeping. Pseudo-bulbs ovoid, very deeply wrinkled 

 and furrowed, usually about ^in. long. Leaves solitary, narrow-oblong, con- 

 tracted at the base, 1^ to Sin. long, the midrib prominent underneath. Racemes 

 including the peduncle 5 to 6in.high. Flowers numerous, greenish or white tinged 

 with pink, all turned to one side, on pedicels of 1| to 8 lines. Bracts small and 

 narrow. JjateraLsepals linear-lanceolate, ^ to Jin. long, the oblique base adnate 

 to, the basal projection of the column forming a short pouch ; dorsal sepal not 

 half so long as the lateral ones ; petals still shorter, ovate-lanceolate. Labellum 

 purple, about 2 lines long, with a very short broad concave claw, the lamina erect 

 or spreading, oblong, thick and fleshy, grooved on- theupper surface. Column 

 short, With 2 prominent teeth. — Ciirhopetalum Flisce, P. v. M. Fragm. vi. 120, t. 

 57 ; Fitzg. Austr. Orch. ii. Pt. L 



iHab. : On the high southern ranges. 



