7 6 ORCHIDS Of THE SIEEIM-HIMALATA,
Khas'a spocimens hare larger flowers than those from Sikkim, but ia other respocts
tliey agree. This speciea had not hitherto been collected in Sikkim.
PLATE 102.-J
floral braot,
sinatiirn, Eeiohb. fil. A plant, of natural sise. Fig. 1 a flower, 2
ovary, oolumo and lip, scan in pro/He, 3 lip, detaoked and showing the small
basftl loboa, 4 column and its foot, 5 anther, 6 pollinia; all enlarged.
15. BULBOPHTLLUM nTMENANTEiiM, Hook. fil. Ic. Plantai'., le. 2046.
Rhizome slend3r and thread-like, naked; pseudo-bulbs none. Leaves rising direct
from the rhizome nearly 1 inch apart, sessile, fleshy, ovate or elliptic, blunt,
•5 to -65 in. long and -35 to -4 in. broad. Scape erect, rising from the rhizome
between the leaves and slightly longer than them, with several minute sub-tubular
sheaths, and at the apex one or two flowers '4 or -5 in. across; floral bract ovate, half
as long as the stalked ovai-y. Sepals sub-equal, ovate, acute, 3-nerved, spreading. Petals
about half the size of the sepals, elliptic-lanceolate, sub-acute, l-nerved. Lip longer
than the petals, ovate-lanceolate, sharply deflexed near the base, the apex narrowed
but blunt, the upper surface with a deep groove from the base nearly to the apex.
Column shoi-t and without apical processes; its foot long and much curved. Anther
with a rounded lip; pollinia only two, the ianer ones being suppressed. Hook. til. Fl.
13r. Ind. V, 767.
Sikkim ; in the Lachung Valley, elevation 8,000 feet; Pantling, No. 368; in flower
in May. Khasia Hills; at Myrung, elevation 5,000 feet; Hooker and Thomson.
The sepals and petals in this species are yellowish, streaked with purple, the lip
being wholly purple.
PLATE lO^.—BaViophyUim hyinenittthum. Hook. fil. A plant, of natural size. 1 a flower,
2 bract, stalked ovary, column with its foot and the lip, aide Tiem, 3 the petals, 4 lip, 5 column
•with anther IK situ and foot, 6 anther, 7 pollinia; all enlarged.
16. BULBOPHYLLUM PILULIFERUM, new species.
Pseudo-iulbs coespitose, globose or depressed-globose, -So to '3 in. diam. Leaf fleshy,
linear-oblong, obtuse, entire, the base narrowed to the very short petiole; length 4
in., breadth '5 in, petiole '15 in. Scape slender, erect, about two-thirds as long as
the leaves, the pedicel with one or two bracts at the base and one or two at intervals
above, bearing at its apox a densely crowded semi-globose capitulum of flowers
about "5 in. in diam. Flowers -12 in. across, reddish-brown; floral bract lanceolate,
acute, half as long as the sub-sessile ovary. Sepals sub-equal, their tips spreading,
acute, the dorsal lanceolate, the laterals ovate and parallel. Petals shorter than the
sepals, narrowly lanceolate, acute. Lip longer thaa the petals but shorter than the
sepals, elliptic, tumid, papillose, much deflexed from the base; the posterior portion
deeply grooved; the anterior convex with entire edges and broad rounded apex.
Column very short; the apical processes broadly triangular, their apices slightlj
erose; the foot longer than the column. Anther truncate, the margin of its Hp erose;
pollinia pyriform, the inner pair much reduced.
Sikkim; at an elevation of 1,000 feet; Pantling, No. 141; in flower in May;
only one plant found.
BULEOPHYLLUjr. ''
The sepals and petals ai-e of a pale red dish-brown, with streaks of a darker shade
of the same colour. The lip is dark reddish-brown.
PLATE Builophyllum pihiUferum, King and Pantling. A plant; of natural site. Fig. 1
a flower, seen from the side, 2 a flower, /rout vieu>, 3 lip, 4 ovary, column and its foot, and the lip,
from the side, 5 ooluma showing ita apical prooasses and foot, G anther, 7 poUiuia; fH enlarged.
17. BULBOPHYLLUM OEACILIPES. King and Pantling in Jouru. As. Soc
Vol. LXV, pt. 2, lis.
Rhiiome '15 in. thick, bearing the remains of sheaths and also leaves at
intervals of '8 to l'2o in., pseudo-bulbs none. Leaf solitary, subcoriaoeous, oblanceolate
or elliptic-oblanceolate, obtuse and minutely bifid at the ap3x (somotlines obliquely so),
much narrowed to tho sessile or sub-sessile base; length 1 to 2'2-5 in. Scape erect,
filiform, longer than the leaves and rising either at the base of a leaf or from an
interspace, with one sheathing bract at the base and another at the middle; tho
flowers crowded in a capitulum about 'So in. in diam.; floral bract ovate, half as long
as the shortly stalked ovary. Flowers in. across, fleshy and of a dull purple colour,
dorsally compressed. Sepals sub-equal, 3-nerved; the dorsal triangular, lying close to the
column, its apex acute, revolute; the lateral pair ovate, acute, spreading but slightly.
Petals shorter than the sepals, oblong, falcately acute, l-nerved. Lip obovate, tumid,
decurved from the middle, the whole of its surface papillose, the posterior
portion deeply grooved, the anterior convex, dilated, the edges entire and the apex
broad. Apical processes of the column broad, abruptly pointed. Anther depressed,
its lip truncate; pollinia pyriform, all four uniform.
Sikkim; in the valley of the Teesta and elsewhere at elevations of about 1,500 feet;
Pantling, No. 242; in flower during September and October; rather plentiful in the
localities where it occurs.
The flowers of this are of a dull purple throughout. It resembles B. piluliferum-,
King and Pantling, in its capitate inflorescence, and to some extent in ita flowers; but
differs in having no pseudo-balbs, and iu having oblanceolate and not linear-oblong
leaves widely distant on a rhizome. This is still more closely allied to B. xylophyllum,
Reichb. fil., but that spocies has spurs at the base of the dorsal sepals which ave quite
absent in this; it has, besides, blunt lateral sepals. Moreover the leaves of B. xylophyllum
are veiy much thicker in texture and their broad apices are emarginate ; its flowers,
moreover, are yellowish-green and are larger than the flowers of this.
PLATE 105.—Bulhophylhim gracilipes, King and Pantling. A plant, of natural sise. Fig. 1 a flower,
scea from lite front, 2 floral braot, stalked ovary, ooluma with its foot, and the lip, seen from the
sido, 3 the petals, 4 lip, 5 oalumn and its foot, 6 anther, 7 pollinia; alt enlarged.
18. BULBOPHYLLUM EEPTANS, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 1988; Gen. and Spec. Orchid. 51.
Rliisme thin, wiry, naked, branching, '1 in. in diam.; pseudo-bulbs 3'5 in. apart,
obpyriform, smooth, -6 to '75 in. long. Leaf linear-oblong, sub-acute, obliquely notched
at the apex, slightly narrowed at tho base to the vory short petiole; length 3-5 to
6 iu., breadth '25 to -35 in.; petiole -2 in. Soapes shorter or longer than the leaves, often
in pairs, slender, more or less decurved; the peduncle sheathed at base, bracteate,
varying in length, sometimes longer, sometimes shorter than tho laxly-flowered raceme.