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lanceolate acuminate, lower ones gibbous at the base. 

 Petals lanceolate acute half as long. Lip with a narrow 

 base limb elliptic lanceolate obtuse margins denticulate. 

 Stelidia porrect oblong rounded at the tip rather large 

 for the size of the column. 



Sarawak: Bidi, Jan. 1908 (C. Brookes). 



The number of Bulbophylla of this section seems end- 

 less. This small species differs from any other known to 

 me in its linear leaves and denticulate tip. 



Bulbophyllum Broohesii, n. sp. " :; 



Rhizome thick and woody with closely appressed sub- 

 globose pseudobulbs, with depressed tops, truncate round- 

 ed J inch long. Leaf coriaceous elongate subspathulate 

 apex rounded, base gradually narrowed to a thick petiole, 

 blade 6 inches long § inch wide petiole IJ inch long. 

 Raceme 6 inches long slender erect glabrous, with several 

 sheaths at the base. Flowers numerous, scattered from 

 near the base upwards. Bracts linear acuminate ^o inch 

 long. Pedicels little longer. Sepals lanceolate subacute 

 | inch long. Petals very small not longer than the 

 column ovate. Lip very small fleshy sides at the base* 

 and for more than half the length of the lip curved up, 

 with a groove between apex ovate thick and fleshy. Co- 

 lumn and its foot short. Stelidia short subulate. 



Sarawak: at Bidi (C. J. Brookes). 



This species has somewhat of the appearance of B. 

 puberulum, Ridl. but is quite glabrous, and has curious 

 closely approximated pseudobulbs of a cupshape. 



Bulbophylhim sarcanthoides, n. sp. 



Rhizome very short, pseudobulbs very small. Leaf 

 succulent lorate drying black, falcate acute 1| inch long 

 i inch wide distichous. Racemes very dense \ inch long 

 with lanceolate acuminate bracts, comose. Flowers 

 yellow J inch long. Sepals lanceolate caudate with a 

 strong central midrib no lateral veins. Petals wider at 



R. A. Soc, No. 50, 1938. 



