15-10 CXXVII. ORCHIDE^. [Bulbophyllimi. 



15. B. punctatum (dotted), Fit::tj. in Brit. Jouni. Hot. xxi. 205. Rhizome 

 creeping, closely jointed, clothed with long hairs. Pseudo-bulbs conical, less or 

 sometimes more than lin. long, and a little less broad, deeply ribbed and 

 furrowed. Leaves oblong, 3 to 6in. long and about lin. broad. Scape rather 

 slender, about 2iin. high, with a small sheathing acute bract at the base. Flower 

 dull-yellow spotted with red-brown. Sepals lanceolate, thick, about 10 lines long, 

 4 lines broad. Petals lanceolate, thick, about 8 lines long, 3 lines broad. 

 Labellum 3 lines long, thick, channelled at the base, contracted in the centre, 

 blunt, curved, articulate on the basal projection of the column. Column short, 

 with 2 prominent teeth. 

 . Hab.: Cape Yorlt, ]1. J). Fitzgerald. 



6. CIRRHOPETALUM, Lindl. 

 (From the Greek Idrros, tawny, and petalon, petal). 

 Sepals free ringent, the lateral ones acuminate, drawn out at the base, adnata 

 to the column, much longer than the upper one. Petals short, apiculate. 

 Labellum entire, articulated with base of column. Column small, drawn out at 

 the base, and furnished with 2 petaloid horns at top. Anthers 2-celled. Pollen- 

 masses 4 ; 2 inner ones smaller. Flowers often whorled. 

 Species chiefly Indian and Malayan. 



1. C. clavigerum (club-bearing), Fitzff., in Brit. Journ. Bot. xxi. 204. 

 Rhizome creeping in joints of about 3 or 4 lines, covered with long hairs 

 especially round the pseudo-bulbs, forming dense masses. Pseudo-bulbs conical, 

 from 6 to 18 lines long and from 5 to 12 lines broad, deeply ribbed and furrowed. 

 Leaves thick, oblong, petiolate, from 3 to 6in. long and about IJin. broad. 

 Scape 6 to 8in. long, slender ; bracts lanceolate, herbaceous. Flowers 6 or 7 in 

 a horizontal half- circle on pedicels of 10 lines with sm%ll acute bracts at their 

 base. Dorsal sepal acute, dull-yellow, spotted in parts with purple, about 4 lines 

 long and broad, terminated in a clavate hair, about 4 lines long. Lateral sepals 

 ligulate united from about a quarter of their length nearly to the ends, about l^in. 

 long, 3 lines broad, acute, yellowish. Petals lanceolate, ciliate, purplish. 

 Labellum thick, ligulate, much curved, articulate on the basal projection of the ' 

 column. Wings of column recurved at the anther, acute. — R. D. Fit^tj., I.e. 



Hab.: Cape York, E. D. Fitzgerald, I.e. 



7. OSYRICERA, Blume. 



Sepals patent, nearly equal, the lateral ones united to the tip. Petals much 

 smaller. Labellum articulated at the foot of the column, shorter than the sepals, 

 at the base ventricose almost saccate near the base, entire, lamina with refiexed 

 margins or very convexed, both sides glandulose. Column erect, semiterete, the 

 apex furnished with membranous hi- or tri-fid wings or projections, narrowed into 

 a short foot. Anther terminal, operculate, incumbent, convex, 2-celled, the 

 anterior surface suborbicular, glandulose, with appendage. Pollen-masses 2, 

 waxy, solitary in each cell, ovoid, without appendage, free. — Epiphytic herbs, 

 with 1-leaved pseudo-bulbs. Leaves linear-lanceolate. Scape erect from the 

 rhizome ; spike terminal, flowers purplish. — Bcnth. ami Hook. Gen. PL iii. 505. 



The genus is closely allied to Jlulhopliylbim, differing in the form of labellum and aiithei 

 appendage. 



1. O. purpurascens (purpUsh), Deane, Fitzg. Aiistr. Oreh. ii. p«. 5. 

 Rhizome creeping, forming dense matted patches. Pseudo-bulbs about 1 line long. . 

 often so close together as to give a moniliform appearance to the rhizome, the 

 searious scales prominent. Leaves 6 to 12 lines long, deep-green, thick and 



