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dwarf : lip articulated with the foot of the coliinm, clawed, usually 

 entire and posticous : column dwarf, 2-toothed or homed in front : 

 anther 1 — 2-celled : pollen masses 4, free, very unequal, sometimes 

 connate in one, or else cohering by pairs, one of either pair minute 

 lobuliform. — Epiphytes : rhizome creeping, pseudo-bnlbiferous : 

 leaves coriaceous; veinless : racemes radical. 



(1) B. TOEBELLAirtnif. CLindl.J 



Ident. Lindl. gen. and sp. p. 56. 



Spec. Chak. Pseudo-bulbs ovate, elongated, sub-angulate : leaves 

 solitary, linear-lorate, obtuse, emarginate : scapes three times shorter 

 than the leaves : flowers corymbose : lateral sepals oblique falcate, 

 obtuse, larger : petals ovate, obtuse : lip cordate, ovate, folded 

 upon itself, entire : column marginate, 2-homed : flowers dull dirty 

 yellow spotted brown. 



Ehasia hills. 



(2) B. Neilgheeeense. (R. W.J 



Ident. "Wight's Icon. v. t. 1650. 



Spec. Chab. Pseudo-bulbs ovate, sub-angular : leaves oblong, 

 elliptic, obtuse, emarginate : spikes cylLndric, shorter than the 

 leaves : flowers numerous, congested : bract lanceolate, acute : 

 petals ovate-acuminate, sub-denticulate : lip 3-lobed, lateral ones 

 spreading, triangular, acute, much smaller than the broad ovate 

 obtuse, somewhat tongue-shaped hispid middle one : sepals dull 

 brownish-yellow, lip brownish-green, sprinkled with short hairs. 



Neilgherries. Malabar. 



(3) B. nTscoPTJKPiTBEiru:. (R.W.) 

 Ident. "Wightl. 0. t. 1651. 



Spec. Chab. Pseudo-bulbs ovate, angular, congested: leaves 

 broadly-elliptic, contracted at both ends, emarginate : raceme much 

 longer than the leaves, 4 — 6-flowered, drooping towards the apex : 

 flowers longish-pediceUed : lateral sepeils about twice as large aa the 

 ovate-lanceolate posterior one : petals ovate at the base, prolonged 

 into a long filiform acumen, terminating ift a little fleshy nob : lip 

 3-lobed, lateral lobes short-obovate or Bub-spathulate, middle one 

 fleshy, nearly equalling the sepals, sub-spathulate or tongue-shaped, 

 entire, hispid : flowers dark reddish-brown, lip brownish-purple. 



NeUgherries, on trees and rocks along the banks of the Kartairy 

 river, and on the north-western slopes. 



