CXXXVI. orchide^e. 
Bulbophyllum.] 
67 
than the very short ovary. Flowers *12 in. long. Upper sepal 
lanceolate cuspidate, hairy, purple with darker stripes and specks, 
lower sepals deflexed, slightly oblique, inner edge whitish, outer red 
purple. Petals half as long, lanceolate white, edge denticulate, a 
tuft of black hairs on tip. Lip lanceolate cordate with central 
groove, fleshy yellow, claw and column-foot purple. Column arms 
oblong bifid. Hah. Rare. Pahang, Gunong Tahan, in forest up 
to 7000 ft. altitude (Ridley). 
( 39 ) gigas Ridl. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxii. 277; Mat. i. 70. 
Rhizome long, woody, thick; pseudobulbs cylindric, -5 to 75 in. 
long, *6 in. apart. Leaf obovate-oblanceolate, 1 ft. long, 6 in. 
wide; petiole 6 in. long. Peduncle stout, 18 in. tall; sheaths 4 in. 
long, raceme nodding, many flowered, 5 in. long. Flowers -5 in. 
long, white spotted pink. Bracts ovate, *5 to 75 in. long. Sepals 
lanceolate acute, laterals gibbous at base, petals linear narrower. 
Lip sessile shorter than column hastate blunt curved with two 
parallel keels, orange. Column thick white, three purple spots, 
foot short orange, arms bifid. Capsule 1*5 in. long, pear-shaped. 
Hab. Mountain forest on rocks and trees, Pahang Telom. Perak, 
Thaiping Hills (Ridley). 
(40) B. coniferum Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Mus. iv. 67. 
Rhizome short, thick; pseudobulbs -5 in. long, cylindric crowded. 
Leaf very coriaceous spathulate, blunt petioled, 6 in. long, 1-25 to 
X‘5 in. wide. Peduncle purple, 6 in. long. Flowers in a dense cone- 
shaped spike. Bracts ovate acute much longer than ovary, 
cuspidate purple. Ovary sunk in thickened rachis. Upper sepal 
lanceolate green striped and tipped purple, -05 in. long, lower sepals 
connate in an ovate organ, blunt, as long, green edged purple, all 
pubescent. Petals linear-lanceolate, green pubescent half the 
length of the sepals. Lip shorter, ovate flat, base truncate retuse, 
tip round, green. Column very small; arms ovate blunt. Anther 
transversely oblong, edge in front emarginate nearly as big as lip. 
Hab. Rare, Pahang, Telom (Ridley). 
(41) B. trichoglottis Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Mus. iv. 66. 
Rhizome short; pseudobulbs crowded, -5 in. long, cylindric. 
Leaf elliptic, blunt, base narrowed, 6 in. long, 2-5 in. wide, sub- 
sessile. Peduncle very slender, 2-5 in, long. Flowers 6, sub- 
capitate, -33 in. wide. Bracts ovate acute. Pedicel and ovary 
•06 in. long, pink. Sepals sub-equal, lanceolate acute, upper one 
gibbous on back, edges ciliate yellowish reticulate purple, laterals 
more ovate connate at base. Petals more than half as long linear- 
oblong, yellowish, edges and lines purple, long ciliate. Lip shorter 
than sepals, flat, tongue-shaped blunt pustular, base retuse with 
two long points, deep crimson, edge ciliate, claw thick channelled. 
Column-arms green of 2 short acute lobes. Hab. Rare, Pahang, 
Telom (Ridley). 
