Aueust, 1917.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 185 
v BULBOPHYLLUM ERICSSONII. | ] 
ULBOPHYLLUM Ericssonii is surely one of the most striking species 
of a very large and enormously varied genus, for the inflorescence, 
which is here represented about five-eights natural size, from a plant which 
flowered. with Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, hears a rough 
resemblance to some weird octopus. The flowers are borne in an umbel, 
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and radiate horizontally from the central axis. Individually they have 
been compared to those of some Chimeroid Masdevallia, and their colour 
is light green, with numerous brown blotches, the lip being marked with 
reddish purple on a white ground. The tails of the lateral sepals, it will 
