ago THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JUNE, 1903 
BULBOPHYLLUM CLAVATUM AND ITS ALLIES. 
‘SEVERAL Bulbophyllums of the clavatum group are now in cultivation, and 
-are characterised by having the rachis of the raceme much swollen, in some 
cases the flowers being partially sunk in a cavity. The original B. 
-clavatum (Thouars) is a native of the Mascarene Islands, and has recently 
been introduced to gardens. B. cxespitosum (Thouars), from the same 
country, has also recently appeared among Madagascar importations. 
B. bracteolatum (Lindl.) was introduced from Demerara by Messrs. 
‘Loddiges, and flowered with them in July, 1837, when it was figured by 
‘Lindley, who described it as a singular instance of the existence in America 
~of a genus hitherto found only in the Old World (Bot. Reg., 1838, t. 57): 
‘It has since been found in Jamaica, Cuba, and Trinidad, and has received the 
later name of B. pachyrrhachis (Griseb.). B. saurocephalum (Rchb. f.) is a 
Philippine species, which appeared in 1886, and is precisely similar in the 
character of the inflorescence. In all the foregoing the flowers are more or 
less irregularly scattered, but in B. quadrifarium (Rolfe) they are arranged 
‘in four parallel rows, partly sunk in the rachis and hidden behind shortish 
-triangular-oblong bracts. It was introduced from Madagascar by M. A. A. 
Peeters, and flowered at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. The lip 
‘is strongly fringed at the margin. A few other species are not yet known in 
-cultivation. 
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CYMBIDIUM ATROPURPUREUM. 
THE Cymbidiums of the pendulum group have been very unfortunate as 
wegards their nomenclature, some of the species being almost inextricably 
confused in books. In 1857 a handsome plant was described by Lindley as 
‘Cymbidium pendulum var. atropurpureum (Gard. Chron., 1857, p. 287), as 
‘follows :— “A Bornean plant in the possession of John Knowles, Esq., of 
Manchester, which has lately produced its flowers, proves to be a narrow- 
-leaved variety of this species, with deep purple sepals and petals, and yellow 
ribs to the lip. It is far handsomer than the old varieties. The same form 
‘is before us, collected by Cuming in the Philippines. The species seems to 
ibe a native of all the insular parts of Asia within the tropics.”’ In 1868 it was 
figured in the Botanical Magazine (t. 5710), when Dr. Hooker remarked :—- 
-« There can, I think, be little doubt that this fine plant is a form of C. 
pendulum, Swartz, a native of Singapore, Java, and the Philippine Islands, 
-as well as of many parts of India proper, as the Himalaya and Khasia moun- 
‘tains, and those of the Western Peninsula. It flowered with Messrs. 
-Rollisson, of Tooting, in March of the present year, and was imported 
rom the East Indian islands, probably Java, but this is, I understand, 
