CCXCVL— NEW ORCHIDS : DECADE 5. 



41. Physosiphon Lindleyi, Rolfe ; caulibus foliis brevioribu: 



a ■ pinlilnYs, foliis anguste oblongis obtusi 

 -I'm | >i- foliis longioribus, bracteis spathaceis apiee triaogulis aeutis, 

 perianfhii tubo triquetro obloDgo lobis rohYxis ligulato-oblongis apicn- 

 latis tubo aequalibus, petal is ol.ovato-obloiigis ol.fusK lahello triloho 

 lobis latoralibus erectis subcarnosis rotnndatis lob., intermedio suhorhieu- 



Hab. Mexico, near Chiapas, Linden, n. 1234 ! 



Caules 2 poll, longi v. ultra. Folia 2i-3£ poll, longa. Seapi 4 poll. 

 longi. Bracteee 2 liu. longa?. Sepala 7 lin. longa. Petala \ lin. 

 longa. Labcllum J lin. longum. 



This is the largest-flowered JUiiisosiphon known, the flowers measur- 



Mr. F. W. Moore, Glasnevin I'.otani. <l .- !•■- . Dal) in, in April 1892, 



without any note of its 



by M. J. Linden, as 1 



specimen is wrongly 1 



a species described by him in 1S38 (" Bot. Reg.,' 



p. 72), from a specimen collected by Schied( 



Mexico. Lindley also states that it had been obta 



from Mexico, by Mr. G. Barker, of Birmingham 



cannot be confirmed, as the specimen is not preset-' 



Herbarium. Schiede's specimen is very imperfect, I 



flowers, though there are four loose ones in a caps 



One only has the lip denticulate ; 



description and drawing, the other 



but none of them agree with the one now described. 



just mentioned really belongs to Smiede'x specimen, -P. 

 flow.rs scarcely half as large a> those of the present species. The lobes 

 of the sepals of /'. Li ndlti/i an deep , •; a n .:. :v<l <>r hi ick-red in colour, 

 the tube and the rest of' the flower light green. It may be placed next 

 to P. Loddigesii, Lindl. Good specimens of P. carina turn, Lindl., and 



42. Bulbophylhim racemosum, Rolfe ; pseud, 

 compreaau i 



laxifloro, bracteis ovato-ohln 



pe.Ii.vlli> elongatis, sepalo postico ellipt ieo-oblong. 



petalis ovato-ohlongis ohtusis, la 



(lot l poll, longi. 

 us. Bractecr, 3-4 



Petala 4 lin. long 



from most other known species ( 

 dorsal sepal and the petals spottt 



