346 
OECHiDEiE. (S. Moore.) 
[Bulb ophy llum. 
crenulate, about half as long as the sepals. Labellum lanceolate, 
fleshy. Column very short, its produced base broad, -J as long as the 
labellum. 
Seychelles, common in forests, Borne ! Endemic. 
6. B. longiflorum, Thouars, Orch . Afr. t. 98. Pseudobulbs ovoid, 
4- gonous, f in. long, surrounded at the base by the persistent ribs of 
sheathing scales. Leaves solitary, oblong, obtuse, narrowed below, 
2J-6 in. long, f-lj broad. Scape erect, wiry, terete, 6-9 in. high, 
with about 3 sheathing scales ; flowers few or several together in a 
secund umbel, the slender pedicels twice or thrice as long as the 
linear bracts. Upper sepal broadly ovate, apiculate, crenulate, 
5- nerved, about \ in. long, tawny spotted with red ; lateral sepals lance- 
olate, twisted near the base, 5-nerved, nearly 1J in. long, tawny 
without, yellow dotted with red-brown within. Petals ovate-lanceolate, 
apiculate, coarsely and sparsely ciliate, yellow with red spots. Label- 
lam oblong. Teeth of the column long, curving forwards, serrate. 
Cirrhopetalum Thouarsii, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 58 ; Bot. Reg. 1838, 
t. 11 ; HooTc. Bot. Mag. t. 4237. Cymbidium umbellatum, Forst. 
Frod. 321. 
Mauritius, on trees, Quartier Militaire, and upper part of Plaines Wilhelms, 
Bojer. Occurs also in Madagascar and the Indian and Pacific Archipelagoes ; the 
type of the old genus Cirrhopetalum. 
7: B. clavatum, Thouars, Orch. Afr. t. 99. Pseudobulbs oblong- 
ovoid, f- 1 in. long, Jin. (or less) broad, clothed by a whitish papery 
scale with one or two smaller scales at the base. Leaves twin, oblong, 
obtuse or somewhat emarginate, narrowed towards the base, 3-4 times 
as long as the pseudobulb. Scape stout, longer than the leaves, with 
several loose sheathing scales, becoming thickened above into a fleshy 
mass in which the flowers are partially immersed ; bracts short and 
broad, hiding the young buds. Lateral sepals united almost to the 
very tip ; upper sepal narrower, 3-nerved. Petals linear, less than 
half the length of the sepals. Labellum broadly ovate-cordate, obtuse, 
papillose. Produced base of column long, curving upwards. Capsule 
broadly ovoid, nearly \ in. long. Rich. Orch. Maur. 61 ; Lindl. Gen. 
and Sp. Orch. 55. B. Conitum, Thouars , Orch. Afr. t, 100. Bulbo- 
phyllaria clavata, Rchb.f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 242. 
Mauritius, on trees in high mountain forests, Bojer ! Bouton ! Ayres ! En- 
demic. 
8. B. caespitosum, Thouars , Orch. Afr. t. 103. Very like B. cla- 
vatum,\>xib the scape is shorter, thinner, and but slightly dilated above, 
the bracts and flowers are considerably smaller, and the capsule is 
only J in. long. Lindl. Gep. and Sp- Orch. 55. 
Mauritius, on trees, forests of Grand Port and La Savanne, Bojer ! Ayres ! 
Also Bourbon. Thouars figures the lateral sepals as free for at least the upper 
third of their course ; I found them exactly as in B. clavatum. 
