334 G. King & R. Pantling — New Orchids from Siltkim. [No. 3, 



Sikkiih : Mungpoo, at an elevation of about 3,000 feet : flowering 

 in June. 



This is also closely allied to B. stenobulbon, Par. & Reichb. fil. of 

 which it has the leaves and pseudo-bulbs, but the flowers are different. 

 It is likewise allied to B. Clarkeanum. 



Bulbophylldm EBDLBUM, n. spec. Rhizome "15 in. tbick, smooth, 

 bearing leaves at distances of three or four inches. Pseudo-bulbs 

 none. Leaves with long petioles, the blades oblong-lanceolate, tapering 

 to base and apex, about 7 in. in length and 1 to 1/25 in. broad : 

 petiole 1'5 to 2 in., channelled. Raceme erect, rising immediately 

 in front of a leaf, many-flowered, about 3 in. long, its stalk 

 about half as long, bracteate. Flowers rather distant, 25 in. long. 

 Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, (1-nerved ?), the dorsal shorter. Petals 

 linear-lanceolate, 1-nerved, half as long as the lateral sepals. Lip 

 oblong, stipitate, deflexed from the middle, blunt, entire, longer than 

 the lateral petals. Column stout, with mentum twice as long as itself 

 and bearing a large swelling below the stigma. Anther thickened down 

 the centre, entire. 



Sikkim : at Sivoke, elevation 1,000 feet; in flower in July. 



The nearest ally of this is undoubtedly B. apodum, Hook, fil. from 

 which it is however well separated by the shape of the leaf, and the 

 non-aurieulafce lip. 



BCLBOPHYliLUM LlSTBRI, D. spec. Pseudo-bulbs oblong-ovate, com- 

 pressed, "35 in. long, arranged alternately and close together on a 

 thread-like rhizome. Leaf fleshy, linear-oblong ; sub-acute, sessile, 

 1 to J '5 in. long. Flowers T25 in. long, solitary from the bases of both 

 old and new pseudo-bulbs, and much shorter than the latter, the 

 shortly-stalked ovary enveloped by several shrivelled bracts. Dorsal 

 sepal ovate-lanceolate, blunt ; the laterals a little longer, cohering 

 by their lower margins nearly to the tips and forming a kind of trough 

 in which the lip lies, their margins ciliolate. Petals fleshy, ovate, erose 

 at the apex, minutely ciliolate in the middle. Lip lanceolate almost 

 flat, the apex alone slightly decurved, the base constricted into a short 

 claw, the upper surface with a thickened yellow mesial line. Column 

 very short, its spurs long, slender, up-curved. The galeate anther 

 with a filiform attachment to the column. 



British Bhotan : at the Rumpti Lake, elevation 1,000 feet: flower- 

 ing in March. 



This remarkable species was discovered by Mr. J. L. Lister, of the 

 Bhotan Cinchona Association, Avho gave it to Mr. Pantling. It is one 

 of the most curious in the whole genus. The flowers are of a dull 

 lake. 



